I enjoyed the film we watched yesterday in class. I thought it was very enlightening and interesting. One of the things that stood out to me was how when Jessica Simpson had a tiny bit of a belly (which I couldn't even really see) they assumed she was pregnant and her publicist had to come out and say that she wasn't. It made me think about how this is saying that you must be skinny unless you're pregnant. But even then there is no peace for body watch. Then the media covers how fast your baby bump grows. I found this picture of Olivia Wilde after she announced that she was pregnant and the caption was can you find her baby bump?
The answer is no because she's still probably in the first trimester or very beginning of the second trimester and most people don't have a real baby bump then. It's crazy how the expectations for women are to be skinny until pregnant and then they want to see a cute little baby bump immediately. This, like all the expectations that women face, is highly unrealistic.
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