Thank you, Rihanna – there's no shame in women being out and proud while pregnant
telegraph.co.ukCall the Midwife, has been forced to defend herself after viewers worked out that she was pregnant with her second daughter during filming for the current series and that her bump had been concealed rather than worked into the storyline.‘I’ve seen too many ridiculous comments about my pregnancy whilst filming Call the Midwife,’ she wrote on Twitter. ‘Women get pregnant, our bodies change.
But we have the right to work if we choose to do so. How about just supporting it, and don’t question it?’. The series is currently set in the late 1960s, when trapeze coats and boxy shift dresses were the height of fashion so Trixie has been able to maintain her high fashion standards with the help of some clever camera angles.But some believe that George should have timed her pregnancy so that it didn’t clash with filming, which is rather laughable when you consider that it’s entirely normal for conception to take up to a year with many people trying for longer (though there’s no suggestion that this was the case for George), so the idea of ordering a baby to fit a TV schedule feels like a plot line from The Handmaid’s Tale.As you may be able to tell, I also have skin (some of it stretchmarked, some of it ‘glowing’) in this game, as I’m eight months pregnant with my first baby.
I may be neither a world famous music icon nor the star of the nation’s favourite Sunday night drama, but I can certainly relate to the judgments and expectations which Rihanna and George’s recent experiences have exposed.From what we wear to how we behave and what we eat and drink, the moment a woman is expecting, she is subjected to a torrent of comments and advice.
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