Completely OT...

[chickwhorips]

a slight thread drift, but still on the subject of preggers.

happened to be watching TLC last night and they had What Not to Wear: Baby on Board. never knew there was such cute maternity wear out there. they had three ladies that they made over. one a couple months preggers, a couple months to go and one that just had a second baby. i thought it was really good, and it made them all feel good and proud to be new mommys. then they had the guy from TLC's Cover Shot (show that takes mom's and makes them over and does a photoshoot with them) shoot all three of them for a beautiful picture.

back to orriginal pictures we were talking about....

[donnambr]

Hm, where to start...

- Nothing offensive about the baby shot. It's eating, for goodness sake.
- What I really like about the naked pregnant pic is that it is one of the only times you will see a woman on the cover of a popular fashion magazine who isn't dangerously underweight. Otherwise, it is rather unoriginal.
- Now, about Spears getting flack about it - that's another kettle of fish. She's spent her whole career sexualizing & objectifying her body to an extreme that one could argue was without precedent. More so than Madonna. Worse, it was in a somewhat sleazy way with undertones of appearing underaged. Influenced a whole generation of young women's fashion choices. (Have any of you had to write up anyone yet for wearing way too risque clothing to work? I have, and the young woman had no clue why her clothing was problematic! After all, even little girls dress that way...we actually had to write up a dress code, blech!) Now she wants to put that all behind her (for now) and be an icon for pregnant female beauty?? Dream on. I live in Oregon, we have hippies here, so there are plenty of examples of pregnant beauty I can admire that aren't so overdone and far more creative... Ok, can you tell I don't like Spears?

BTW, I am not in the least bit religious, but I am deeply concerned about the effects of sexualizing children and very young women. Pam, you're not the only one who finds thongs for 10 year old girls disturbing.