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The Real Reason These 8 Celebs Got Pregnant

Ami AngelowiczNovember 29, 2012 //

The Real Reason These Celebs Got Pregnant

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Leave it to Jessica Simpson to get pregnant at what seems to be the most calculated moment possible. Her announcement that she is expecting baby number two came just in the nick of time for her to snake her way out of that Weight Watchers endorsement deal. But, if she wasn’t getting preggo to avoid public dieting, she must have been doing it to take the heat off of papa Joe Simpson and his divorce/ he-may-be gay scandal. Or maybe both? Either way, good timing, Jess and Eric! And, of course, congrats on your forthcoming bundle of joy.

Click through for more of our conspiracy theories about the ulterior motives for celebrity pregnancies.

Celebs who tweeted half-naked pregnancy photos

When Celebs Tweet Half-Naked, Pregnancy Bump Pics

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The Soapbox: How I Lost Faith In The Pro-Life Movement

Libby AnneNovember 5, 2012 //

I Had An Abortion

A mother writes about choosing to have an abortion. Read More »

Free BC, Fewer Abortions

Free birth control means fewer abortions, says study. Read More »

Abortion Rights

All of The Frisky's posts about reproductive rights. Read More »

This piece was originally published at Patheos.com and is being reprinted with permission.

The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later I have lost the last shred of faith I had in that movement. This is my story. Keep reading »

Free Birth Control Means Fewer Abortions, Says Study (Which Proves Common Sense)

Jessica WakemanOctober 6, 2012 //

I Had An Abortion

A mother writes about choosing to have an abortion. Read More »

I Took Plan B

Our writer took the morning-after-pill to thwart unwanted pregnancy. Read More »

Abortion Rights

All of The Frisky's posts about reproductive rights. Read More »

A new study called “The Contraceptive Choice Project” outlined in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology tracked over 9,000 women in St. Louis and found free birth control led to drastically lower rates of abortion and births by teen moms. The study gave a range of free birth control options to poor and uninsured women (those at the greatest risk for an unplanned pregnancy) between 2007 and 2011.

Access to birth control, including the most effective, implanted options — meant women had fewer abortions: 4.4 to 7.5 abortions per 1,000 women in the study. Not only is that lower than the national average of 20 abortions per 1,000 women but lower than the abortion rate for women in St. Louis, which is 13.4 to 17 abortions per 1,000 women. The Obstetrics & Gynecology study, published yesterday, predicted that one abortion could be prevented for every 79 to 137 women being given free contraception. Keep reading »

Todd Akin In ’08: Docs Give Abortions To Women Who Aren’t Pregnant

NewserOctober 3, 2012 //

It’s getting to be quite the week for years-old videos to come back and bite candidates, and the latest victim is one Todd Akin, the would-be junior Missouri senator of ”legitimate rape” fame. Seems Akin gave a speech in 2008, in which he compares abortion to slavery and calls abortion providers “terrorists.” He then goes on to describe the “bottom-of-the-food-chain … pit[s]” that they supposedly work in. “You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking,” he explains. “Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die. All of these things are common practice, and all of that information is available for America.” Read more…

British Soldier Gives Birth At Afghan Base Had No Idea She Was Pregnant

Jessica WakemanSeptember 21, 2012 //

Armor For Women

Military women finally get specially designed body armor. Read More »

"A Disgrace"

Air Force mamas photographed nursing called a disgrace. Read More »

Military Sister

My brother joined the armed forces. Read More »

I’ve had a couple false alarms when my period has been poky and I’ve been freaked for a few days that I might be pregnant. So it boggles my mind that there are women on this Earth that do not know they are pregnant until their baby is basically crowning.

Take, for instance, the British soldier who gave birth at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan after not realizing she was pregnant for seven/eight months. The Fiji-born woman, who is being kept anonymous, was deployed to the Afghan frontlines in March as a gunner in the Royal Artillery and gave birth unexpectedly to a five-weeks premature baby earlier this week. The soldier did not realize she was pregnant until she started having terrible stomach cramps, which turned out to be contraction associated with childbirth. Keep reading »

Girl Talk: I’m Doing IVF

B.B. WhiteSeptember 18, 2012 //

Cancer Wife

On being "that young guy with cancer's wife." Read More »

We Want Grandkids!

Parents are paying to freeze their adult daughters' eggs. Read More »

Freezing My Eggs

My friends have a lot of opinions on whether I should. Read More »

I was never that woman who dreamt of having many children or starting my own “Brady Bunch.” Babies, little booties, and bottles were always an afterthought to enjoying a successful career, one peppered with travelling the world and enjoying a range of other adult activities a childless, flexible lifestyle could provide. However, after my husband Jason was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent a bone marrow transplant (which I wrote about here), it would be an understatement to say that my priorities and narrow definition of family underwent a fundamental revolution. One year post-cancer, I began to dwell on the thought of living and dying without a family of my own.

Cancer had forced mortality to become an issue that often occupied my thoughts during sleepless nights or long car rides, and in my worst nightmare, I became the modern antagonist of some sort of widowed cat lady fairy tale. I imagined myself an old hag with cracked skin in a big castle, hoarding treasure and cackling wildly all by myself, full of bitterness and regret over my own solitude. The adult lifestyle that once felt so plush suddenly transformed into a thorny horror story, and Jason and I decided to try IVF. Keep reading »

Man Points Gun At Pregnant Smoker, Fails At Life

Jessica WakemanSeptember 16, 2012 //

Smoking while pregnant isn’t defensible.

But you know what else isn’t defensible? Pointing a gun at a pregnant woman. Keep reading »

Girl Talk: Taking A Pregnancy Test At 36

Rachel Kramer BusselSeptember 13, 2012 //

Soapbox: No Kids

Women writers without kids understand human emotions, too. Read More »

Pregnancy Test

Am I pregnant or not? Only one way to find out. Read More »

Broken Biological Clock

Some biological clocks just don't tick. Read More »

The first time I bought a pregnancy test I was 17. I’d gotten my period but was so new at the whole sex thing, not to mention paranoid, that I wanted to be sure. We hadn’t used condoms, but instead a small, see-through film that hardly seemed like it was going to do its job. I used it anyway because I was 17, and he was hot, not to mention 31, so I figured he knew what he was talking about. I wasn’t pregnant, but taking that test set the tone for every other pregnancy test I’ve taken, including one last weekend.

The biggest difference for me between taking a pregnancy test at 17 and 36 wasn’t so much the technology as the fact that I’m in a vastly different place than I was then. I know more about sex, relationships and myself, and while at 17, I was pretty sure I would get an abortion if a test were positive, now I’m almost certain I wouldn’t. I was scared, but not as scared as I’d been at 17. Another difference is that at the moment, I don’t have health insurance—bad, I know, and after this scare I’m joining the Freelancer’s Union and getting health insurance ASAP. Keep reading »

Jessica Simpson Says Something Kind Of Lovely About Her Weight Loss Process

Winona Dimeo-EdigerSeptember 5, 2012 //

Jessica Simpson Gives Birth!

Jessica welcomes a daughter, Maxwell Drew. Read More »

Jess Sells Baby Pics

People magazine paid how much?! Read More »

Fat-Shaming Jessica

On Jessica Simpson and reclaiming the word "fat." Read More »

Quotable

“Nobody wants to talk about their weight. For me, I have had to come to a place where I am comfortable with myself. I’m a mom now, and get to be a role model for this beautiful little girl … I feel like everybody can do what I am doing. I’m not a supermodel. My body is not bouncing back like a supermodel. I’m just your everyday woman who is trying to feel good and be healthy for her daughter, her fiancé and herself.”

–Jessica Simpson, pop star, entrepreneur, and new mom to baby Maxwell, responds to USA Today‘s questions about losing her very famous baby weight. Now, don’t get me wrong, the article also contains the usual stats about her Weight Watchers points allotments, and I know she’s being paid ungodly sums of money to lose the weight, but still, I thought this quote was actually really thoughtful and inspiring, even. As someone whose never-had-a-baby body looks a lot like Jessica’s post-baby body, I’ve been very interested to see how the media–and more importantly, Jessica herself–handles her weight loss process. I’d love to hear more about her journey to find a healthy weight under massive pressure, but with her “new body” being unveiled on Katie “Eat A Sandwich” Couric‘s show next week, I’m afraid my hopes aren’t terribly high for a positive and honest conversation about body image and self-esteem. [USA Today]

Tori Spelling Is Done Being A “Pregger”

Celebrity Baby ScoopAugust 28, 2012 //

Reality TV star Tori Spelling shares her “bittersweet feelings” on ToriSpelling.com as she nears the end of her fourth pregnancy. The soon-to-be mom-of-four says this will likely be her “final pregnancy” and talks about her love of being a “pregger” and living for her children Liam, 5,Stella, 4, and Hattie, 10 months.

“As my 4th pregnancy is nearing the end I have bittersweet feelings,” Tori writes. “I can’t wait to meet and hold my little man or lady, and definitely I won’t miss having to pee 4 times a night or hearing my now pliable pelvic bones move and crunch when I try to pull myself out of bed in the morning. But, there’s so much I will miss.”

According to the soon-to-be mom-of-four, this will likely be her last pregnancy. Read more …