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I admit I love my daily dose of crappy pop culture. Yes, I'd usually rather read about Jessica Alba's rocky love life than the latest atrocities in Iraq, because, well, sometimes my brain is full. Fluff hurts a lot less than barb.
As I was flipping through my People feed today, I saw an article heading I have seen approximately 273 bazillion times before: How (Insert Actress Name) Will Lose the Baby Weight. In this particular article, Tori Spelling was waxing about how she'd lose the 40 pounds she gained in pregnancy and I was busy wondering.
a) Why she is acting like 40 pounds is giant -- I gained 60 and happen to think that's a lot more normal than the 25 often cited by Doctors
b) Why am I still reading this damned article?
These post-partum weight loss stories are often popular enough that the media keeps printing them, and as a pop culture junkie, I'm probably hypocritical to be complaining. But I so wish that the repeat articles could have headlines like "The first thought I had when I looked into my baby's eyes" or "Why my husband was my saviour during labour" -- or, whatever. Anything but the moaning about 30 or 40 pounds of weight. Perhaps I am getting old and bitter, and maybe the fluff is a little more painful than I thought.
As I was flipping through my People feed today, I saw an article heading I have seen approximately 273 bazillion times before: How (Insert Actress Name) Will Lose the Baby Weight. In this particular article, Tori Spelling was waxing about how she'd lose the 40 pounds she gained in pregnancy and I was busy wondering.
a) Why she is acting like 40 pounds is giant -- I gained 60 and happen to think that's a lot more normal than the 25 often cited by Doctors
b) Why am I still reading this damned article?
These post-partum weight loss stories are often popular enough that the media keeps printing them, and as a pop culture junkie, I'm probably hypocritical to be complaining. But I so wish that the repeat articles could have headlines like "The first thought I had when I looked into my baby's eyes" or "Why my husband was my saviour during labour" -- or, whatever. Anything but the moaning about 30 or 40 pounds of weight. Perhaps I am getting old and bitter, and maybe the fluff is a little more painful than I thought.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-25-2007 @ 11:04AM
LS said...These stories are even more ridiculous when you realise that many of the ladies were horribly *underweight* when they got pregnant. So adding that 20, 30, or 40 pounds may just have brought them up to their real, healthy weight. But HORRORS!!! We can't have Hollywood Starlets at a healthy weight!!! GASP!!
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4-25-2007 @ 11:33AM
Jessica said...As long as you keep reading it, they'll keep writing it.
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4-25-2007 @ 12:24PM
Cathy said...I think it is b/c the fluff was about Tori Spelling, some fluff is easier to digest, she is a bit of a nut-bar. (no offence Tori)
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4-25-2007 @ 5:15PM
Maureen said...I think they keep writing them because new mother's are "born" everyday. While you may have read this article 20 times, a new mom may have noticed it for the first time. I know that I never looked twice at an article about baby weight before I had kids. After, yes, I did want to know how other moms lost their baby weight. As a new mom you may feel overwhelmed and have little body image and the realization that other moms are going through it to can help (it did help me.)
But now that my youngest is 2, I don't really care to read such articles... bad memories and all that:)
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