Worse than finding out you’re pregnant at 17 is having to tell your mum and dad.
I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who’d go to the Gobi desert pregnant.
All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
I have lots of hard-earned knowledge about women through heartbreak – and social faux pas. When I was about 15, thinking I was engaging in light conversation, I asked a woman when she was due. Of course, she wasn’t pregnant. I learnt the lesson never to ask again.
I really wasn’t well – feeling feverish then cold – so I went to the doctor to find out if I had flu and they did a blood test. I thought: ‘Okay, this is it. I’m pre-menopausal.’ Then Steve said: ‘Are you sure you’re not pregnant?’
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.
When you’re pregnant or living with an infant, there’s a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.
When I got pregnant with my second son, I still hadn’t lost weight from the first, and since I came from a long line of overweight people, I was terrified that I was quickly going to become one of them.
I love being pregnant, I love giving birth, I love all that, it’s like wearing a wedding dress, I don’t want that all to be over.
I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren’t things I don’t love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. I’m in awe of the process and science.
I think I’ll probably be pregnant all through my 30s. I’ve always pictured everyone around the table for the holidays and together once a week. It’ll be heartbreaking if it doesn’t end up happening, but hopefully it will. We’ve got some embryos on hold.
While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they’re pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity’s baseline social contract.
Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I’m really looking forward to it.
In many countries, women aren’t jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite – they’re terrified.
I’m about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I’ve stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen – just until ‘Breaking Dawn’ is over.
I worked as a flight attendant while I was pregnant with my son, Jordan. After suffering serious complications, my doctor insisted I stay home to protect the health of my pregnancy.
I’ve been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I’ve been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!
At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government’s policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.
Either I’m going to be like an MGM starlet – get married five times, it will be a bit of a laugh – or I will get pregnant, by accident, with someone I barely know. We’ll get through it. They’ll be a great co-parent. We definitely won’t end up together.
I’m having a lot of cravings – I can’t get enough of dairy. Ice cream, milk, yogurt, cheese – I want it all. Orange juice is also a big one – and, weirdly, my mum said she craved orange juice when she was pregnant with me.
I gained 60 pounds, and I’m proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I’m pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
I thought, ‘When I get pregnant, someone will be looking for a pregnant woman. I’ll do a movie about a pregnant woman.’ But that didn’t happen.
I gave birth to my son when I was 39, in 2011, as my contracts didn’t allow me to get pregnant. I was scared that if I get pregnant, it will be the end of my career.
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
Prior to getting pregnant with KJ, I was never in sweats, but anyone who’s ever been pregnant can relate to me when I say ‘comfort is key.’
I want to live a normal life – drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened – I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they’re also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It’s difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.
I’m very active when I’m not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.
I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you’re somebody who’s used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it’s a whole other experience.
When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.
Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there’s a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.
Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zika is spreading.
Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called ‘Retrospect For Life,’ which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N’bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.
My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs – lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
Right after I had Anaiya, I definitely wanted more kids. I was like: ‘I think I could do this professionally.’ Because I loved being pregnant so much.
First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn’t like anyone else’s.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
When you’re first pregnant, you have that ‘Wow, I can’t wait’ and then, by the end of the nine months – which is really 10 months of waiting for someone to arrive – you’re just so ready for it to be over.
I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
I didn’t want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
I’ve had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I’d been engaged. The wedding fell through. I then discovered I was pregnant and opted to have the child on my own. I was a professor. I was in my mid-30s. I could manage it financially.
You don’t have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you’re pregnant. Even if you’re a lawyer, you can think, ‘I’m scared to take time off because I don’t want to get passed by.’
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me – he’d gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.
My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It’s crazy.
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a teen girl who’s pregnant, hasn’t told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
