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

What reading matter.

Eyes bedside pile. I mean I know Zadie's Smith's book of essays Changing My Mind, aint high falutin'...

You should buy my tome, 'Diana:The Woman Behind the Kohl' £1 in Asda atm.

Well my reading matter was the French magazine they were published in. I read crap and I read the good stuff too. I ain't no literary snob

Marmalade, were you responsible for the Queen of Hearts debacle? Did you help her identify just who the third person in her marriage really was?

The third, fourtth and fifth people in the marriage were her alternate personalities.

Mignonette, here I was thinking the third and fourth people were her butler and her astrologist...

Diana would have been jealous as Hell of the Middleton Women.

Diana would not have coped with the presence of Carole Middleton and she'd have been all over Michael. Yes, she'd have been jealous.

SecretWitch I think she was channelling her astrologist when she spoke of the third person in her marriage. And you are right, the third was Paul Burrell, who is now starring in Downton Abbey as a Lord. Funny that in a way, his dream came true...

Mignonette

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.

I'd smile at that image, but I can see why she doesn't want to be caught like that

runfatgirlrun I wasn't fat when I started running, but I was so unfit I couldn't get round the block without feeling like I was going to cough my burning lungs up.

I got enough mockery as a slim person, so God knows what it's like for anyone presenting an extra target for abuse. And when I first started, people much bigger than me would sail past - still do, sometimes.

Diana would have been jealous as Hell of the Middleton Women.

Oh God, deepfriedsage, can you imagine the late night phone calls to William? Poor sod dodged a bullet there, though I'm sure he doesn't think of it that way (though perhaps Kate does) and I will burn in hell for bringing it up.

I'm currently re-reading Scarlet and Black by Stendhal. But I'm doing it slowly and my lips move as I follow each line with my finger. And it's the English translation, not the original French.

What's going on in here?

Are you okay Marsh?

Diana would not have coped with the presence of Carole Middleton and she'd have been all over Michael.

It's all flooding back. The silent phone calls to Oliver Hoare's wife that earned her a talking-to from the police.

Shagging Bum-Face Carling and his wife getting shit from Diana's media friends for pointing out that shagging someone else's husband is Generally Bad Form and rather contradictory for someone who whinges about infidelity in her own marriage.

Not the worst person in a world that has Hitler, Stalin and Cilla Black, but not someone beyond reproach either.

Yes thank you for asking

I thought this thread was about how absolutely dreadful it was that a slim young woman revealed her stomach

Like many things in the '80s, Diana's hair was a divisive topic.

It had its imitators or inspirations - I'd cite Nick Rhodes from Diana's favourite band

However, as an Essex girl, I favoured the banana clip, that gave us a kind of centurion look

Revised history would have you believe that Essex people were all Big Bang, Loadsamoney yuppies who longed to be Sloaney estate agents but would never manage it.

But some of us weren't.

And I despised Duran Duran. And Wham! I did like dressing up in vanishingly-small outfits though

I am a walking pudendum. Admire me

I apologised limited and I meant it when I thought you had lived through an op

She probably would have been all over Michael Middleton. She would not have coped seeing the Middletons in the carriages at the races, on the boats on the Thames and concert outside Buckingham palace. Diana and Fergus would have made up in their dislike of CM.

wft are you on about Marshmallow ?

AYBADT??

marshmallo this thread is what you make of it.

I objected to the OP and the subsequent idea that tabloids and celebrity gossip are the devil's work, so said so because though I expressed it in joky way, I find that attitude very offensive indeed.

It's wandered from then. If you're unhappy with that, say so with less of the passive aggressive attacks, or post in 30 Days Only.

You might like it. I can be quite PO on occasion, and there was a good debate in there on self-defence classes that excluded white people.

I have apologised limited when I realized that you may have been affected directly

Limited I guess everyone who starts doing anything - running, flying a kite, whatevs - feels a bit of a twat at first...

My aim is to look fit enough to no longer get encouraging comments from passing OAPs

Marsh are you the Lemon Drizzle Lady?

You know the one who has a vagina in her online name and she is always right