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Mommyrexia: Celebrity Inspired Trend to Stay Thin While Pregnant
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Victoria Beckham, eight months pregnant, poses with designer Marc Jacobs. Credit: Peter Kramer, AP
Let celebs like Bethenny Frankel and Victoria Beckham help you keep that frail, emaciated, oh-my-god-someone-get-that-poor-woman-a-cheeseburger figure that turns all the shallow guys' heads.
Staying a walking skeleton before, during and after pregnancy is an emerging trend in ... guess. Hint: It's not Fargo, N.D., or Lewiston, Idaho. You got it! New York City!
But what kind of trend would it be without a name? It's called Mommyrexia.
The New York Post reports a whole industry has evolved around it. A slew of highly paid personal trainers stand at the ready so that women can give birth and go back to looking like Olive Oyl in a matter of weeks.
"Hell hath no fury like a post-partum woman trying to get back into the groove," Joshua Margolis, a personal trainer at Mind Over Matter Health & Fitness, tells the New York Post.
His business offers "MILF" classes for women who want strange men to start regarding them as sexual objects and prey again as soon as possible.
"I've seen a massive uptick in my clients feeling stress if they're not down to their pre-baby weight," Rosie Pope, the star of the reality show "Pregnant in Heels," tells the Post.
Pope, who gave birth to her second son four months ago, just added an extra-small size to her own maternity wear collection. "I'm worried about this trend, because even I couldn't fit into it, and I'm small!" she tells the Post.
Believe it or not, health experts are also concerned about this trend.
Manhattan dietitian Lisa Cohn blames celebrities like 37-year-old Victoria Beckham, 37, eight months pregnant with her fourth child, for promoting the "mommyrexic" image.
"Beckham's in her eighth month now, and looking too thin continues to be part of her plan -- healthy or not," Cohn tells the paper. "She hasn't been looking as vibrant -- pale face, dull eyes and more drained. If her extreme post-baby weight-loss plan of shedding 20 pounds in a short period is true, it sends a dangerous message to other women out there."
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
6-24-2011 @ 4:54PM
kassie said...The trend to weight loss during and after pregnancy relates more to the cheating of one partner in the Beckham marriage. She has acknowledged that fact and is insecure about future infidelities. There are many couples having babies first and then the wedding so there is a huge emphasis on not looking post pregnancy for the nuptials. Its all so ridiculous and a terrible bias towards weight issues.
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6-22-2011 @ 7:26PM
willow said...i had the opposite problem , i couldnt stop eating and didint care - both ways are bad - but i am always envious of women who don't stuff themselves during pregnancy and exercise : )
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6-22-2011 @ 11:38PM
nance said...This crap reminds me of a trend a number of years back when the first wave of celebrimommies who were "too posh to push" were deliberately having c-sections at around the 7 month mark of gestation to avoid the stretch marks and extra weight gain that are usually associatted with those last couple of months of pregnancy. These freakishly self-centered women were only willing to carry the baby barely long enough to minimize severe prematurity complications but not long enough to ensure robust health and certainly noit long enough to risk a stretch mark. This practice was only stopped when their OBGYN's were taking professional heat for the unscrupulous practice of putting maternal vanity ahead of the health of the child. These destructive practices are an inevitable byproduct of turning children into just another possession and bragging right for these morally bereft individuals.
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6-26-2011 @ 1:05AM
tracey said...Nope, nope...no way is she 8 mos. pregnant here. Weight gain aside - no friggin way is she wearing those heels and not have a dime size bit of swelling in her ankles and feet. I have never seen that and never will because she is not 8 mos. pregnant there!
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