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Mylene: that white bikini and feeling fat

So Mylene Klass has appeared three times in that white bikini everyone knows:

1) In 2006 when she was standing under the waterfall in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here

2) In 2007 when she was pregnant, appearing in an ad for Marks and Spencer

3) A third time, 3 months after she gave birth last year (in photo at left), again for Marks and Spencer.

Mylene recently revealed she was pretty traumatised by having to wear that bikini postpartum seeing as she was surrounded by uber-thin models. She says:

“I’m only 5ft 5ins and I had a bit of a tummy. I felt small and podgy.”

She said: “I said to them ‘You do realize I just had a baby three months ago?’

“It was really difficult for me to overcome my issues so soon after giving birth.”

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1030268/Myleene-confesses-I-felt-fat-THAT-bikini.html
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White bikinis and what not



Welcome to my 400th post.

Moving right along. So it seems I've lost someof my loyal readers...I know, I know. As I keep telling you, I have this PhD thesis (blah blah blah) which is due so soon I'm already feeling Braxton-Hicks with every edit. My posting is not what it used to be but in some ways I haven't found much that I have wanted to write about lately. Like you, I get sick of reading about celebrities constantly so I've been having a mini-holiday from reading or thinking about Nicole Kidman. Things have been moving very rapidly on this end with plans to take this old Baby Bump Project to the next level. There is a book in the works and plans for an exhibition here in Melbourne.

Anyway, for those of you that are still listening. It seems Minnie Driver has come out into the sunshine at 7 months pregnant and of course, she is being slagged by the media for apparently being 'too pasty'. Most of the British tabs are saying she looks ENORMOUS however I laughed when I saw that the Sun was praising Driver for looking like a 'real woman' in comparison to other celebs:

"These snaps of MINNIE DRIVER show real girl power, as the mum-to-be bares her bod on the beach while heavily pregnant."

If you actually look at Minnie, she's bloody thin. Not in a scary thin kind of way but seriously, her belly is not ENORMOUS and she certainly doesn't look like a baby mammoth like everyone says. Unfortunately, the snap that's being sent around is of her in a white bikini and for my Brit readers, you will know straight away that Mylene Klass made the white bikini famous both in pregnancy and out of pregnancy for Marks & Spencer. Sure, Mylene is all made up and looking fabulous but if you read Mylene's book (which I have written about) she says pregnancy looked alot easier for her than it actually was. Why is it that 'real' women are 'fat'?

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Mylene Klass: B grade 'celebrity' to 'author'

Two things about pregnancy never cease to amaze me: 1) the amount of books published on the subject every year and 2) the increasing number of books about pregnancy 'written' by anyone who has a 'Dr' in front of their name or appears regularly in the tabloids. Apparently, Brit 'celebrity' Mylene Klass is adding author to her long-list of accomplishments which include showering in a white bikini and...um..showering in a white bikini?

Her new book, My Bump and Me: From Morning Sickness to Motherhood - An Honest Diary of My Pregnancy, is described as Mylene's personal account of 'what pregnancy is really like' including 'everything she did wrong' and practical medical advice.

I find this very troubling. The book has not been released so of course I have not been privy to its contents. However, whenever a celebrity is doling out medical advice and/or providing advice to other women I would like to think that there is a nice little ghost writer somewhere in the process doing the research and making sure that the women buying this book are getting proper information. It is not clear that this book and the advice that is shared is supported by any research, feminist, medical or otherwise.

When it comes to pregnancy, the last thing women need is a celebrity telling them 'how it is' no matter how 'honest' or practical an account it claims to be. Sure Jenny McCarthy provides a refreshing account of pregnancy in her book, Belly Laughs, but let's be honest. Are the women that buy this book using it as their primary resource for pregnancy information? Probably not. Are they buying it for a good laugh and a bit of fun? Of course.

With so many competing discourses surrounding how to 'do' pregnancy these days and given the primacy of celebrity in our culture generally, I think it's really inappropriate that celebrities knowingly contribute to constructions of a singular pregnant body; the idea that that there is only one way to be pregant, that there is an 'ideal' pregnant body shape or that you are supposed to feel a certain way when you are pregnant. The truth is that celebrity experiences of pregnancy and motherhood are atypical; they do not translate easily into the realities of the average woman because celebrity women are subject to a whole range of surveillance/cultural criticism and pressures of performance that the average woman is not. It's irresponsible for celebrity mothers to pose as the down-to-earth average woman because she's not. Mylene Klass, no matter what she says, had a categorically different experience of pregnancy from the average woman just by virtue of being in the public eye. Why should anyone care what she did in pregnancy? It only sets women up for failure when they unconsciously (or even consciously) compare their experiences to hers.

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I love a hypocrite: Mylene Klass

Remember when Mylene Klass said this during her pregnancy?

'When the baby is born, she says there will be "no faddy diets, none of that nonsense. I'm as prey as anyone to images of super-skinny women, but it's important that women see someone who's normal. I'm 5ft 5in and I've got boobs and a bum...'

Well apparently, Klass has lost her baby weight only 6 weeks since giving birth. According to the Daily Mail, she embarked on a 'vigorous exercise regime' in order to 'bounce back' in time for her upcoming TV appearances.
'Her trim physique and glowing complexion are the result of gruelling gym sessions with her personal trainer, including long runs on the treadmill and stomach crunches'.

According to her friends, she has been working off her weight with a 'vengeance' ever since.

Now, she's a celebrity. Part of her job is to look beautiful and fit. This is a reality for many famous women. What really annoys me is that during the pregnancy she felt like she had to say what everyone wanted to hear: 'I dont care about losing weight' 'It's totally unrealistic' 'I'm a 'normal' woman' BLAH BLAH BLAH

And now, she has gone off and worked out like a maniac like every other celebrity. Why can't these women just tell the bloody truth? 'I'm a celebrity. People pay me to look good. This is an unfortunate side effect of the job'.

Women are not stupid. Pretending that 'size doesn't matter' isn't doing anyone any favours. Frank and honest admissions of the tyranny of beauty and slenderness post-birth that mothers around the world are subject to is at least a way to admit that all of this stuff about achieving perfection is pretty ridiculous and yet a huge number of women are increasingly participating in these regimes of bodily discipline. Where is the resistance in conformity even if most mothers know exactly how she is feeling?

If someone asks her how she lost the weight and she says 'pilates' I will dry wretch.

Sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=485433&in_page_id=1773

http://babybumpproject.blogspot.com/2007/07/mylene-klass-and-white-bikini.html
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Mylene Klass and the white bikini


It seems that if you live anywhere remotely near the UK, Mylene Klass is a household name. Since falling pregnant, her public presence has grown enormously. There is one bit of her story that I find particularly intriguing. Before she was pregnant, she famously modeled for Marks and Spencer in a white bikini. The 'white bikini shoot' was famously reprised when she was 5 months pregnant. The bikinis flew off the shelves and so much so that Marks and Spencer got itself out of it's looming financial demise. It didnt seem to matter that a pregnant woman was modeling a bikini for ostensibly non-pregnant women. Fast forward and Klass has posed naked on the cover of UK Glamour and is currently appearing in the Marks and Spencer autumn ad campaign at 8.5 months pregnant. In the words of one jouralist, Klass has done for pregnancy what Kate Moss did for heroin chic.
Pregnancy has also been a major turnaround in Klass' muddled career which has been riddled with weight issues. When the baby is born, she says there will be "no faddy diets, none of that nonsense." "I'm as prey as anyone to images of super-skinny women, but it's important that women see someone who's normal. I'm 5ft 5in and I've got boobs and a bum. I'm never going to be tiny-tiny but the best things have happened to me when I've been at my heaviest, including meeting my fella when I was size 16. He pointed out to me last night when he was rolling me into bed - we live by the Thames, so there are a lot of whale jokes in our house - that I was heavier when we met than I have been while I'm pregnant."
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Myleene Klass does a 'Demi' for Glamour







If you are pregnant and a celebrity (even a C grade reality contestant), you haven't made it until you've posed naked and pregnant on a magazine cover....

"Miss Klass, 29, who was a swimwear-clad contestant on I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!, appears naked save an engagement ring and gold butterfly-design necklace on the cover of the latest edition of Glamour magazine".














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