MIL Starts Drama Over Pregnant Woman Wearing A Bikini As It’s Making Her Husband Nauseous
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Many more mothers are familiar with such a scenario.
Brand strategist Alexandra Carello is one of them. “When you’re pregnant, finding clothes that you feel good in can be difficult, especially if you’re trying to be conscious of your consumption and avoid buying new pieces,” she wrote on The Telegraph. “Clothes become a faff and almost always feel restricting.”
“With a bikini, there’s nothing digging in, nothing pulling at your body. Fewer clothes definitely equals fewer problems for me – I love getting to wear just bikinis and cover-ups all day. Being nearly naked is basically the best,” the woman explained.
“I haven’t felt this way through my entire pregnancy. In the beginning, just looking or feeling a bit bloated or bigger isn’t fun. And you always feel more pregnant than you look in the early stages. It’s liberating to be enormously pregnant in a bikini when no one can wonder. I think the more skin you show, the better.”
Carello has also had to deal with disdainful glares. But she thinks it’s best to distance yourself from them as much as possible. “My attitude is, ‘Yeah, I’m pregnant – so what? Judge me if you dare.’ I feel more confident in a bikini now than when I’m not pregnant, and also very free.”
Of course, maintaining this attitude is much more difficult when your relatives keep criticizing your attire.
“If you’re the pregnant woman in question, exercise boundaries and become firm about what you will listen to and take on board,” our parenting expert Vicki Broadbent suggested.
“If someone provides an opinion, depending on the gravity of it, thank them for it then promptly change the topic. If it’s rude and uncalled for as this example is, be clear that you have the human right to wear and do as you please as an adult and won’t be made to feel bad about other people’s ‘mommy issues’ or anything else that requires a therapist to work through and not you!”