Is it normal to look bloody terrible?

[Suprima]

….where is this ‘glow’ that people speak of?

I’m going to preface this with the fact that I don’t really care what I look like. After multiple losses I am just happy to have made it to 15 weeks and to be hopefully having a baby which seems healthy and well (so far).

But I look utter shit.

I have put on weight which has made my lipodema look even more prominent.
My skin is a shade of mushroom.
My hair is lank.
My nails are shit and splitting.
I have gingivitis.
I have acne and blackheads, and cystic acne on my back. The skin that isn’t spotty is both dry and oily?
My stomach is covered in black hairs.
I am covered in veins and have developed some capillaries on my face.

Even with make up on and a nice outfit- I just feel utterly heinous.

Anyone else who really, really doesn’t have the ‘glow’?

Yes it's normal OP but poor you. Tiredness was the worse. I suffered first trimester with tiredness so badly (I'm 12 weeks now) and been lucky enough to not really have any effects like this.

Take some time out, I love baths at the moment but not too hot x

The glow is just sweat in my case.

100% this!!! Having had clear skin pre pregnancy I woke up last night because I have a spot so horrible and big on my cheek that it was actually hurting to lie on that side. Said to my mam this morning “where is this pregnancy glow nonsense everyone talks about?”

I’m third trimester as well so not even in a position to think it might get better!

Starting to think women who talk about amazing pregnancies may be government moles spread among us to further population growth

God yes, there is a meme of a big fat pale dolphin and I felt like that throughout my entire pregnancy

I was a horrible swollen beach ball of a woman

My 'glow' is actually grease that makes my hair gross and me have more spots than when I was a teenager. Yey!

I've developed such a hairy face! Downy white (thankfully!) hair all down the sides of my face. Not ideal.

Still waiting on the "glow" from my first pregnancy. Nearly 29 weeks into my second and feeling very cheated as I look at my acne riddled, greasy hair, exhausted face in the mirror in the morning. And don't get me started on the facial hair that I swear is growing back as fast as I can remove it....

With all 3 pregnancies....I looked like utter crap!! My SIL was pregnant at the same time and looked fabulous...I tried not to stand near her 🤣

I'm 17 weeks and I look like a pile of shite.
Definitely no glow over there.

I found the only time I glowed was actually rage, so much hormonal rage

Im still waiting for my glow and I gave birth 6 weeks ago!!!

@ShirleyPhallus

God yes, there is a meme of a big fat pale dolphin and I felt like that throughout my entire pregnancy

I was a horrible swollen beach ball of a woman

I am also the albino fat meme dolphin

It's normal op , especially when you're putting your body through pregnancy after multiple losses. I was in a similar situation and it took me ages to recover physically and emotionally.

I'm sure the world doesn't see what you see. I remember a colleague telling me I was glowing , I was actually sweaty , constipated and had put on a lot of weight at 20 weeks!

Look after yourself.

I'm grey haired, grey skinned, nauseous, tired and only 9 weeks. I've hardly eaten for weeks because of the vomiting but I'm somehow fatter than ever? I've grown some kind of handle bar moustache which I'm covering with a mask because at the end of the day having looked after 2 kids I don't have the energy to wax it. My husband is wondering where the sex goddess he got pregnant a few months ago went and tbh so am I

Definitely normal, the only glow I have is when the light hits the permanent sheet of sweat on my forehead.

I am enormous, have skin tags and brown marks all over my skin now, dry skin, I waddle, I can't breathe out my nose and haven't been able to for three months, so my lips are dry and cracked, and I have insomnia, so haven't slept properly in weeks - my skin is pasty and unhealthy looking. I am stumpy. There is no glow. I hate pregnancy with a passion.

Also, for some reason, I have lost my neck. It just looks like a massive trunk now! It's the same width as my head, I mean, wtf?!

God I hope so. I'm only 10+4 but I'm greedy haired as showering takes too much energy and I feel grey in the face and eye-baggy. Plus have a permanent pissed off/mournful expression as feel constantly sick. Glowing I am not

Greasy haired. Not greedy haired. Though seeing as it's barely seeing conditioner it's probably also feeling greedy

I'm 27 weeks and still waiting for said glow I think I'll be one and done after this baby who's also our first. Pregnancy is not for me and my partner stupidly agreed with me (wrong move with my raging hormones love)