There's Christina Aguilera, showing her pregnant belly and part of her pregnant nana's on the January 2008 cover of marie claire magazine, whatever that is.
I know, it's been done. Most notably several years ago by Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair, but every time I see something like this I think about how much our attitudes have changed in the time I've been alive.In the 1960s, where I come from, married couples on television slept in separate beds for fear of scaring away their middle American audience who would see it as too risque for prime time TV.
In 1971 Archie Bunker flushed a toilet on All in the Family, and the studio audience erupted in laughter, as though it was the most arrogant (and funny) thing anyone had ever done. Maybe it was.
Lucille Ball couldn't say she was pregnant on I Love Lucy. Certain subjects were taboo and you couldn't say some words (even on the news), where we were shocked and awed every night by images of battle scenes in Vietnam, to the point that showing them was controversial.
At some point (probably passed) the shock value wears off and such things as naked pregnant women on magazine covers just aren't that bold a statement. I don't know, and my women readers will probably have to clue me in as to what the statement is here. OK, she's proud to be pregnant, she's beautiful and she's an attention whore - that I understand. As far as the magazine is concerned, since few of us know who or what marie claire is, it's all gravy for them, and if Christina says she wants to bare her baby belly, they probably can't send a photographer out fast enough. "Hurry, before she has the kid!"
Is that all there is to it or am I missing something?
4 comments:
personally, i think part of it is also about going against the "thin-is-in" grain, but in an industry-controlled manner. they're saying, "see? we're not size-ist...here's a woman who's not super skinny and she's on our cover."
it seems to appease the masses till the next issue comes out.
but what the heck do i know of these things!
PS - thanks for the comment :)
attention whore....yes, that would describe her nicely.
i agree, she looks beautiful, far beautiful than she ever did before. but since i am in the biz, i always marvel at beautiful mamas and their bellies. it's nice to see the masses s-l-o-w-l-y accepting beauty in what a woman's body was designed to do...oh wait, youtube agrees with facebook and won't publish videos of breastfeeding mamas.
frankly little miss a talking to the press and baring her baby bump now is kind of boring...yeah, you're knocked up! duh! kind of the same way it is for j-lo...it's old news now even if they finally decided to admit that they were pregnant.
to be honest, i don't know what the big deal is either. why this news made news?
in my personal opinion...you missed the boat.
it has nothing to do with her being a super star or an attention whore, because really...she's not that much of an attention whore compared to other poptarts her age...anyways, i think [personally speaking here] that it's about the beauty of being pregnant and if you've ever seen a pregnant woman before-they absolutely radiate this glow about them. Usually happens in the 2nd trimester after the puking has worn off. It's a woman's body-and it's growing LIFE...that my friend...is a miracle...and that's why women who show their bellies on magazines will always get a nod of approval from me.
Rock on with your big naked bellies!
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