I'm a snidey woman certainly , today at least as at 36 weeks pg I can only just stagger the five minutes walk to ds' nursery without wetting myself so I don't need to hear about how other people sail through being effortlessly glam.
I think that everyone should be cut major amounts of slack when pg or postnatal, whatever you think of them personally. But, I think that when celebs do this 'there's really no need to eat ice cream and let yourself go when you're pregnant' thing, they are setting themselves up as somehow better than the rest of us (and I speak as someone with a serious ice cream habit currently). And when they starve themselves afterwards and then try to say it's all down to good genes etc, it makes us feel bad and inferior and then I think it's only natural to want to snipe a bit, just out of defensiveness. I have a lot of time for Zoe Ball and her size 18 knickers comment, or even dare I say it Liz Hurley and her admission that she eats one meal a day, because it recognises that it is hard to get back to normal post pregnancy, and that it is normal to feel bad about yourself to some degree. If you want to pretend otherwise then fine, but don't be surprised when you get shot down for it. I know they are under pressure about how they look etc, but it doesn't help the rest of us feel any better about ourselves.