Following the lead of Star, who this week claim Jessica Biel wants a Band-Aid baby with Justin Timberlake but fears he’ll leave her for getting “fat,” In Touch Weekly has a story about “fat” preggo women. Are you raging yet?
Honestly, you should be. Since this is pretty typical of how tabloids address pregnancy “ZOMG, she’s putting on weight.” And here’s more of the same, as onlookers chide Jessica Simpson for enjoying her first pregnancy (there’s pretense of concern about her health in there somewhere).
On a recent outing in Beverly Hills, onlookers were shocked to see Jessica Simpson’s bloated pre-baby body. “She looks really huge, almost unrecognizable,” an onlooker tells In Touch.
According to a source, some doctors are equally-alarmed at her dramatic weight gain. So much so that they’ve issued a stern warning: Eating too much junk food or gaining too much weight while pregnant increases the chances of gestational diabetes, hypertension and having a baby too big to deliver naturally.
“Jessica’s the happiest she’s been in ages, and she loves the fact that no one stares at her when she’s downing pizza or eating a tub of ice cream,” [a] source tells In Touch.
That’s a recipe for disaster, says nutritionist and author Jackie Keller, “Why would you deliberately sabotage your body with unhealthy, fatty foods? You’re not supposed to eat twice as much, you just need 300 extra calories a day.”
LA ob-gyn Layne Kumetz, M.D., concurs.”The recommended gain for a woman at a healthy weight is 25 pounds,” Kumetz tells In Touch. Jessica has gained 40 – and counting. – via In Touch Weekly (with edits for readability).
