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Pregnant Duchess Kate Gets Bump-Shamed: 'She's Too Thin'


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Here's one for our favorite Brit, Dazed.

I have to admit, this is the first time I've heard the term "bump-shamed". Let's hope this one doesn't catch on.

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That sounds awful. I know my sister-in-law had problems with it early in her pregnancies but it got better later on.

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We should not kid ourselves, Kate definitely is way too thin. Early in their relationship she looked to have a healthy weight, but once they were heading towards engagement she started becoming thinner and thinner. Do we really want another Diana?

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No she's not "too thin" -- that's ridiculous. In this day and age of most people actually being too big, there's come to be this distorted sense of what's "thin".

I've personally known women, including my own sisters, who had exactly Kate's frame, size, shape etc, back in the 1960s and 1970s before the obesity explosion, and not only did NOBODY ever accuse them of "being too thin," but also I know for a fact they did not have eating disorders, ate healthily and heartily etc and no they did not sneak off to the bathroom later.

Post World War II when the UK had endured strict rationing, and could not over-indulge in any food (there wasn't even fast food yet), EVERYONE looked this size and shape! And it was considered perfectly normal. Larger, more upholstered bodies were rarer.

Seriously, all this fat shaming AND thin shaming is getting ridiculous. That woman is NEITHER fat nor "too thin."

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Yes, she is too thin. I can't believe you're not able to see how unhealthy she looks (she's not one of those thinly built women with a small frame). Using the years after WWII as an example is not a good idea, too many people had suffered from malnutrition. All this throwing around of terms like shaming is getting ridiculous. Just keep living in denial, that's the healthy thing to do. I don't care what she looks like (she didn't need the nosejob either, but if it makes her feel better, whatever), I'm genuinely concerned about her health.

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Didn't know US Weekly has a moviechat account with us.

I think this kind of body shaming is a bit weird. Then again, it does sound like the public were just being concern about the health of a Royal than anything. Now that she is expecting a third child. The only logic explanation for what Kate is going through at the moment, now that I've read more information on this, is hyperemesis gravidarum.

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