Pregnancy can be a time of celebration and excitement as you await your new bundle of joy, but it can also bring up some complicated emotions. After all, your body isn’t just yours anymore — and you might be gaining weight and getting stretch marks and feeling exhausted all thanks to that little one growing inside. Those things are hard enough to deal with on your own, but imagine if everyone was looking at you and criticizing how you looked and how much you weigh? Kelly Osbourne recently revealed that she held back from posting any pregnancy pictures of herself due to her fear of being body-shamed, and it’s absolutely infuriating.
No Pregnant Pictures
Osbourne, who is mom to baby Sidney, 8 months, with boyfriend Sid Wilson, posted photos of herself on Instagram wearing a sparkly black dress. “Never leave a rhinestone unturned. — Dolly Parton 🪩✨” she captioned it in part.
Someone in the comments asked her why they “never saw a pregnant picture” of her, per TODAY, and the reality star responded with the heart-breaking reason.
“There are no pictures of me pregnant because I hid for 9 months because I did not want to get fat shamed,” Osbourne wrote back, adding that her face looks different due to the weight loss. “It’s just from weight loss. Honestly I’ve only had Botox.”
It’s so frustrating that there is so much body shaming still happening in 2023. Even in the comments, people were calling her out by accusing her of taking Ozempic. Can we please just take a break from comments about how we look? It’s exhausting.
Sharon Osbourne’s Life ‘Revolves’ Around Baby Sidney
After welcoming her baby boy in late 2022 (with her mom, Sharon Osbourne, spilling the beans), Osbourne shared the first photo of his face in June. In the photo, her son is wearing an adorable bat costume and looks totally precious looking up at the camera.
She opened up about motherhood in May 2023 on . “I have a beautiful little baby boy, and he is my reason for living, my reason for getting up in the morning,” she said. “My whole life revolves around him, and now I understand what the word ‘purpose’ really means.”
Osbourne added, “(My mom) absolutely adores him, and so does my dad. My dad and him have a real connection.”
She’s Not The Only One…
Osbourne is, unfortunately, not the only celebrity woman who was body-shamed during pregnancy. Jessica Simpson was body-shamed relentlessly when she was pregnant. This prompted her telling Redbook in 2014, “I never listen to it, no matter who the press talks about when they’re pregnant. It’s ridiculous and unfair. I think any woman who is pregnant and creating a life is pretty much entitled to eat whatever she wants as long as she’s healthy.”
The mom of 3 told ET that she threw away her scale when she was pregnant in 2019.
“We have a goal, right? But I say throw out the scale,” she said. “I would use it like a measuring tape because the scale can literally mess our entire day up… I had [husband] Eric [Johnson] walk it to the trash can.” She added, “I have to rid myself of measuring up to what weight I should be because I’ve had so many people tell me what weight I need to be and I think it’s really about just how you feel.”
Kim Kardashian was also body-shamed during pregnancy with North West, now 10. She said on the We Are Supported By podcast, “It changed me as a person.”
“It really did change me and it made me really pull back on what I shared and just how much I wanted to give because I saw how nasty everyone was and it felt so bad,” Kardashian continued. “It was really, really crazy.”
The SKIMS founder said she was often compared to Kate Middleton, who was pregnant with Prince George at the time.
“I was not a good pregnant person. I was not a cute pregnant person. I did not like it. I hated it. I hated how I felt. I hate how I looked. The media really did brutalize me over gaining a lot of weight…” she continued. “They would always compare me to Kate Middleton so it would say, like ‘Kate the waif and Kim the whale,’ it was so nasty. I don’t think it would really fly today, but it killed my self-esteem. I can’t believe that this was acceptable and that this was okay.”
It’s definitely not OK, and we are so proud of these women for being vulnerable about these incredibly difficult experiences. We should all continue to call out the media and anyone who tries to bodyshame women, whether pregnant or not!
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