Look good while giving birth?

Prepare for birth with false eyelashes and atwo-piecewax?

Just akintennis players, it seems that women bragging(a)birth now have to be “lookers” and nonruin the effect with any of that sweaty groaning, moaning or screaming.

Even if it’s a 10-hour labour, don’t spoil the picture of perfect motherhood by looklike you have gone ten rounds of wrestling a tiger in the jungle, whatever you do. It’s just not what anyone wants.

With the occasionalMail increasingly scrutinising the pregnancy of celebs from curvy Kim Kardishan and the shock of her touchpregnancy pants to Penelope “ready to pop” Cruz, women are now whole tonethe pressure to always look good, with a race to seeback into shape as soon as the frustrate“pops” (ha, ha, ha) out, like a champagne cork from a bottle.

The Sun had timely advice for Kate Middleton about how she could look great while giving birth.

It also claimed that research suggested that more pregnant women arevisitbeauty salons to ensure that they look like royalty on delivery day.

Of the three women The lieinterviewed, one had spent up to £1,000 to look buff in the delivery suite, and that including having a bikini wax.

As TV critic and journalist Grace Dent commented on Twitter “Yeah. cast offa bit of lippy on you lazy cow. etc.”

However, addressing the balance islensmanJade Beal of Tucson, Arizona.

The BBC magazine reported how she took photos of her scars, stretch marks and well-situatedskin after giving birth and posted them on her blog, A beautiful body project.

Beal told the BBC: “I want people not to have to react as ‘You’re gross,’ but instead ‘Oh, that’s a woman who is incredibly human, or that’s a woman who has scars and lines with stories to tell.

“My tendencyis to help these mothers feel worthy of being called beautiful.”

So Kate, hope you remembered as you pushed for England, beauty comes in all shapes, it’s your pregnancy and you can hollerif you want to.

 

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Materials taken from Womens Views on News