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.