She went to into premature labor and her doctors were worried that she was suffering from life-threatening preeclampsia. Reportedly, she also underwent three surgeries to repair her uterus as the inner lining was damaged and conception without medical assistance might not have been possible. They tried but could not conceive with the normal IVF process , involving stimulation injections.
Unfortunately, it did not happen. As happy as she was, Kardashian had it even more difficult with her second pregnancy. The couple was prepared for a high risk delivery. They also knew this would be the last pregnancy for Kardashian because of all the complications she faced earlier. Despite all the problems, Kardashian was extremely thankful to be pregnant again. Back in September , it was reported that Kim and Kanye were expecting a third child. In some quarters, it was considered obscene: many supermarkets displayed it with the sort of paper wrap reserved for Playboy ; others, like Safeway and Giant, refused to sell it entirely.
The titillation was purposeful: Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, who would go on to serve as editor in chief of The New Yorker , made the decision to put the image on the cover, knowing how it would drive sales. The issue ended up selling more than a million copies — , more than normal circulation.
For too long, women have felt that pregnancy is something they have to conceal and disguise. It takes the courage of a woman as modern and innovative as Demi Moore to cast aside the conventions of traditional beauty and declare that there is nothing more glorious than the sight of a woman carrying a child. Today, pregnancy and motherhood are one of the primary ways in which a female celebrity maintains attention. Celebrities model these behaviors on the red carpet, in selfies, and in paparazzi photos, and as a result, women across America have adopted them en masse.
To be pregnant in public was in poor taste — unsophisticated, trashy, unbecoming, obscene. New motherhood is often depicted as something darling: sweetly sleeping babies on all crisp white sheets and gurgling babies in the bath. The most significant mother of Christianity, for example, is the Virgin Mary: asexual, idealized, immaculate.
Mary is rarely represented while actually pregnant, only afterwards, when the child is safely born, both mother and child clean and content. This beatific mother is contained, pure — the antidote to the abjectly pregnant mother.
Historically, the easiest way to contain that abjection was to keep the pregnancy out of sight. Women of a certain class often receded entirely from public view until after the baby was born and the visible signs of pregnancy had diminished.
When the birth occurred, it happened in the domestic space and was managed by midwives. As late as the s, stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds were seldom photographed while pregnant — just during the blissful, bonding aftermath.
In , the Supreme Court upheld the right to privacy when it came to birth control; in , it protected the right to access abortion services in Roe v. In many ways, the decision of the court underlined that this was no longer, or could no longer be expected to be, the case. There was no maternity yoga; no maternity Spanx. In the process, it effectively created a market for photos of celebrities in all aspects of their lives outside of the home. Even more valuable, though, were shots of female celebrities performing these tasks while pregnant.
And like the aging process or weight gain, that process, and how a celebrity chooses to embrace or conceal it, is one of the most perversely engrossing images to observe. Part of that watchability stems from the Pride and Prejudice —style plotting, in which a controlling mother attempts, in some ways more overt than others, to pair off her gaggle of daughters or otherwise ensure their success.
And when you spend so much time acting for an audience, your entire life becomes a performance. The Kardashians became the apotheosis of what it means to be a celebrity today: instead of deflecting surveillance of the body and the personal, they embraced and exploited it.
Earlier this month, the star's sister announced she was expecting her second child with Travis Scott in an Instagram video tribute. The couple, who are parents to Stormi, shared the happy news in an Instagram video that began with the year-old rapper's elated reaction to Jenner's positive pregnancy test. The pair recently got back together after splitting in October She has a cute bump.
She is beyond excited," a source told PEOPLE at the time, adding that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star had been spending time with loved ones away from the public eye during her early pregnancy. She loves being a mom.
She is thrilled that she and Travis are pregnant again ," the source said.
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