Celebrities often create a thing of beauty out of pregnancy. Posing nude on the cover of magazines has become a fad, starting with Demi Moore's infamous Vanity Fair cover. When celebrities pose nude in magazines and happily talk about their pregnancies, they show women how beautiful they could be while pregnant. However, creating an image of physical and emotional beauty out of this stage of life creates a hegemonic ideal for American women and for society. Although pregnancy in itself is a thing of miraculous beauty, it was at one time a very private experience for a woman and for a family. Being pregnant has become "fashionable" - being gracefully, beautifully, and happily pregnant is a hegemonic ideal.
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| In an effort to reenact the pregnant beauty portrayed by celebrities, women often find themselves posing for pictures such as this one. |
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