Still look pregnant? Still feel pregnant? This post is for you!
Are you struggling with still looking pregnant?
Tired of people still asking you how the baby is kicking or when you are due?
You are not alone.
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It’s been 2 years, 5 months, 24 days, 10 hours, and 75 pounds since I delivered my second son. He was healthy and beautiful and ounces away from weighing ten pounds.
And for the last 2 years, 5 months, 24 days, and 10 hours I have continuously been harassed by strangers with questions and comments insinuating that I am still pregnant. To give you some insight, I’m going to start this week with a top ten list.
I’ll continue my belly journey this week as I celebrate reaching my Weight Watchers goal weight and my fears of what’s next (the need to maintain). I’ll also be exploring the realities moms have to face with their post pregnancy bodies. One of my realities is that I still look pregnant after 2+ years and after hitting my goal weight.
Top Ten Signs I May Always Look Pregnant
(To be clear, I am and was NOT pregnant during the following circumstances)
10. During an aerobics class, the instructor walked up to me in the middle of class and asked me (with her loud microphone) if I was expecting my first child.
9. A homeless person on the street asked me how the baby was kicking.
8. When I was assigned an exit row seat on an airplane I was told by a flight attendant “You obviously cannot sit in an exit row because you are pregnant.”
7. The dental hygienists assumed I couldn’t get teeth x-rays because she thought I was pregnant.
6. During a job interview the woman asked me when my baby was due (yes, this is illegal).
5. The first day of my art class, the instructor asked me when I was expecting.
4. While watching my son during his swimming class, another mother asked me when I was expecting.
Note: People never speak to me again once they have implied that I’m pregnant. They stop making eye contact! It’s like I’m stuck in a Seinfeld episode.
3. The nurse at the doctor’s office (just last week) asked me if I was pregnant. At first I thought it was a standard question until she apologized and was embarrassed after I told her I was not pregnant.
2. Walking with my kids at the airport, someone stopped me and asked “How do you do it with two kids and one in the oven?”
1. During a family photo shoot, the professional photographer asked me to suck my stomach in before he snapped a picture. His wife quickly replied ”Dear, you can’t suck in a baby”.
This is your moment!
Am I the only one who gets “accused” of being pregnant? Have you (or your wife) ever experienced this awkward situation? Why don’t these people just think I have a fat stomach and give me a break!?!
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This has happened to me four times, all said to me by customers at my jobs. I have always been fat, and I have a big belly. Needless to say, I hate customers. Two of them obviously have mental retardation, so I guess I forgive them. But yesterday a woman getting paint from me (I work as a paint-mixer in a big box store) and she says “It must be hard standing on concrete all day”. I get this type of thing all the time so I respond ‘Yeah, I suppose so.” And then she asks me if my back is ok. I say “I don’t really have back problems…” and then she asks me “When are you due?”
I couldn’t say anything. But after I gave her the paint and left, I bawled my eyes out. It made me want to die.
sadly this happens to me all the time, I had two back surgries and gained 50 lbs, and went from fine to fat. I don’t have your sense of humor it makes me cry. I have no children, and I work out everyday and have been changing to healthy eating habits for the last year. Nothing helps.
Hi, I’m 18 years old and i have the same problem. I find it very annoying when i get comments from my own family members. I haven’t yet found if its a disease or anything like that, I would like to know if you know anything about it. Maybe surgery I dont know. I’ve never ever been pregnant. So I have no diagnosis.
i am 21 years old and 18 months postpartum and i still look prego! ugh i hate it so bad! im so self conscious over it, its seems like ever time i look in the mirror or see my reflextion the first thing i see is my belly sticking out and trying to suck it in all the time gets frustrating and i sometimes forget to, but i hate being asked if im pregnant!!!! i got the mirena IUD and sometimes i wonder if that may be the problem maybe making me bloated all the time or something..i dunno but im a skinny person everywhere but my belly i feel like my body is so out of proportion!!! any advice??????????
Thanks for writing this. Just this morning a coworker asked me when I was due. I had my son 7 months ago. Before he said that I was feeling pretty good because I lost a few more pounds. UGH.
I have never had any children and never intend to, although, I have been asked several times “when is it due”, even a police officer who caught me for speeding (oops) asked me if I am “with child”. I find this insulting as my belly has always bothered me. I used to think it was all in my mind until certain comments where made. Am I abnormal?? It upsets me to the point that I am thinking about it all the time. I am 5ft 3″ 11 stone, yes, I know, I am over weight but, even when I was 9 stone, the belly was still too big to me.
I am heavy and carry my weight in my stomach but I don’t think I particularly look pregnant. To me, I just look fat. I am already extremely self conscious about this and then I get asked when I am due or some other variation of the question. Just today I was all dressed up, thinking I looked nice when a family friend came up to me and said, “honey are you having another baby?” Mind you, this is the same woman who came into my work three weeks ago and asked one of my coworkers if I was having another baby! If I wasn’t pregnant three weeks ago, I’m not pregnant now! I’m never eating again….
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