Yippee! Put down your female genital mutilation scissors and your payroll accounts reflecting lower wages for the ladies because today is a special day! We don't have commemorative chocolates for the day, but I hope the professionals will get with the program for next year. I have some ideas around that and hope Russell Stover is in touch soon.
I want to talk about famous beautiful women taking off their clothes while heavily pregnant and being photographed for public consumption. I think we need to be really kind to these women. I was driving to a 7am dentist appointment in honor of Labia Thursday 3/8 as it's known in many places, and the radio station 106.1 had two hosts trashing Jessica Simpson for her nude preggy photo shoot. Then, they cycled through all of the women in recent history, starting with Demi Moore, who "mistakenly" pursued this project. Don't get me wrong, I'll never be doing it myself, but I don't want to trash women at this sensitive time and not just because their raging hormones could cause them to push me down the stairs and paralyze me so that they could eat my brain stem.
It seems like such a scary, yet hopeful time for women and for the most part, the pregnant women I know mostly complain about feeling like a big fat sweaty slob. One friend of mine had such terrible indigestion that she was drinking spoonfuls of oil to get some relief. Another friend was so obsessed with spicy that she was putting hot sauce on salad and a former co-worker who was pregnant with twins wore open-toed shoes in a blizzardy icy winter because she couldn't stop sweating profusely. This is not sexy behavior.
Starlets who decide to share their changing/expanding/exploding figures with us should be given a break. They've made loads of money on their looks and it's got to be difficult to feel that slip away temporarily. Not that I am saying pregnant women aren't beautiful (they aren't, but I'm going somewhere with this), I'm just saying they can't possibly feel as confident as they did when they were sex symbols and I feel like cutting them some slack. The radio hosts referred to Demi Moore as "chunky," which was painful to hear. Arnold Schwarzennager looked really disgusting pregnant, but that's about the only one I am willing to admit to. It's not about how they look, it's about what stupid name they will give their baby and how they will destroy its life with bad parenting and uncomfortable media exposure.
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