Duchess of Cambridge has lost all her baby weight!! AIBU to think this is NOT front page news ffs

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been meaning to post about this since saturday

front page of the Sun (yes i know. and no i do NOT buy it) screaming "DUCHESS HAS GOT A FLAT TUM!!" or something like that. with massive pic of her with her top riding up showing her slim tummy. then there was a CLOSE UP of just her tummy area as well.

why is this news?? and who is it news to? i mean, good for her, she looks lovely of course. but really, who cares?

what is actually WITH the media obsession of how women look in pregnancy and afterwards?? and why are women held up as some sort of goddesses amongst women if they have enough personal trainers and time to diet, exercise etc are lucky enough to look great shortly after giving birth??

god no wonder so many women feel so shit about themselves

ps: am pg myself which is why it wound me up more i think

This is how the world wanted its hair in 1997 www.instyle.com/instyle/package/transformations/photos/0,,20290121_1048396_20822981,00.html#20822912

Certainly if I'd been a candidate for open heart surgery, I'd have carried a variation on one of those cards people used to have asking not to to be visited by a Government minister in the event of being caught in an IRA outrage.

Why would you limited?

Sorry, I should have put quotes around the comment.

"Really? We've so internalised our sense of self-worth as being based on our surface area that it's pretty much the defining arbiter of status and the main source of envy?"

Rousing words indeed, especially from someone calling themselves RunFatGirlRun.

Kate is not projecting an image of being perfect. She wore skinny jeans and played some volleyball. That's all that has actually happened.

You are projecting onto her.

Re. Diana's hair: it looks so awful, in retrospect. Can someone who was young and cool at the time tell me whether it was actually considered a stylish look? 'Cos I refuse to believe it.

Yep, I can confirm it was considered v stylish. We all had Diana flicks, held in place with whole cans of cheap hairspray. We also wore lots of black eyeliner, blue eyeshadow and frilly blouses - we rocked

My teenage looks ranged from Diana at 13 to Workers Revolutionary Party at 15 to Stevie Nicks at 17

Bigpaws not at all.

Kate has carefully managed the image she portrays. Keeping a certain image of herself at the fore, and other less positive images (eg the fact that she's a smoker) strictly not up for discussion.

This attempt to fully manipulate the media is uttery fool hardy.

If you have a baby when you're 30 & fit it's easy to lose the weight.

I don't understand why she is vilified for doing so.

Wordfactory, are you a smoker? Is it against the law to smoke cigarettes? Foolhardy is one word btw.

so is arsehole

It's not against the law to smoke - but it looks rank. Hardly something that fits in with the wholesome image she portrays.

gideon I don't see the problem with my username: I am fairly fat - it doesn't mean I call thin women cows or think they're better than me - nor does it stop me running slowly !

Thanks for the clarification SerChenjin - now you come to think of it I think I was subjected to one of those cuts at the age of around 12 but I cerainly had bugger all to do with it. I have a feeling the hairdresser was just sort of programmed to do on a default setting

I think that was true Run - all hairdressers learned to do a Diana in their sleep. They would get quite flappy if you asked them for anything else

So what do you object to Wordfactory, let's list them
Kate having a flat stomach
Kate daring to reveal the above
Kate (allegedly) smoking cigarettes

fenton good point

Because I found her manipulative marshmallo and I would prefer not to have her use my misfortune to burnish her image.

I also question the ethics of allowing sightseers in on operations - especially when that patient is a minor, which was the case there.

I'd also prefer not to have someone in heavy make-up peering into a massive wound and someone with a camera, which wouldn't be the cleanest bit of kit, on the other side of the operating table.

But plenty of people would have wanted her at their bedside, so she wouldn't have been short of photo-ops because of me.

I never knew the DoC smoked. Learn something new every day.... I can imagine her all frazzled and bleary eyed in the morning with a mug of coffee in one hand, bacon sandwich in the other and a fag sticking out of the side of her gob. Totally at odds with her image isnt it.

Kate smokes?

She does smoke and was photographed with cig in hand in those topless shots. William and Harry have indulged too though Harry more and not just ordinary cigarettes.

marshmallow I don't object to any of those things. And no, I don't smoke.

Are you a little dim? .

I am very sorry limited.

RunFatGirl Yes but your name makes it seem you're defining yourself based on your surface area which is you were railing against. That was the irony. Anyway, no big deal - good luck with the running.

I think being fat is quite a defining feature when you're running, on account of it taking some extravagant cojones to be prepared to do it in public - I don't see it as being the defining feature of my being. And my main point was about size being (I see this ALL THE TIME) the way women judge themselves and each other - you know, all that "She's a size 8, lucky cah", regardless of anything else the person in question might be up to in life, and not admiring women who're overweight even if they're neurosurgeons or what have you (seriously, I have met people like this).

But yeah, I think I see why you thought it odd!

I dunno wf and mg, I may be a little dim but not enough to read your reading matter .

And thanks for the luck :) I can now almost outrun DH, in distance if not speed