British OK! Magazine Cover About Kate Middleton’s Baby Weight: Insensitive?
July 24, 2013 by Hollywoodite
If you’re not interested in the royal baby you’re going to want to skip this week’s covers altogether. There basically is no other news this week, for obvious reasons, aside from the newborn whose name has not yet been decided. The boy prince, who will one day be king, covers all the major weeklies.
One in particular, though, has already caused consternation by intimating that Kate Middleton is “fat” postpartum. There was some minor bodysnarking online, yesterday, about how Middleton’s midsection didn’t magically deflate after pushing a person out of her. Every woman is different and every pregnancy is different but, in short, yes, it’s normal to have a little “paunch” or the actual belly still for weeks or months postpartum. Apparently this is news to everyone including the staffers at British OK! Magazine who are already urging the Duchess to lose the weight. In a snide story talking about the body of a woman who gave birth on Monday, the cover is above.
It says “Kate’s post-baby weight loss regime. Exclusive: OK! talks to Kate’s trainer. ‘She’s super-fit. Her stomach will shrink right back.’ Inside: your exclusive Duchess diet shape-up plan.” As mentioned before, it’s the passive-aggressive reference to the stomach that apparently ought not to be there.
This has, rightly, angered readers who are already mounting a boycott on Twitter with the hastag ”#DontBuyOK”. Seemingly as an act of contrition, though, OK! Magazine edited its original article from a weight loss story, excerpted below, to this generic series of quotes.
Kate Middleton will slim back to her pre-baby body in no time, experts have exclusively revealed to OK! Magazine.
Kate has stuck to a healthy diet for the past nine months and it’s thought she’ll be keen to return to her pre-pregnancy svelte figure.
A source told OK!: “She even proudly said how she wanted to squeeze back into her favourite jeans soon after the baby was born!”
Royal expert Jennie Bond thinks the Duchess will need no such post-baby diet and fitness plan if she opts to breastfeed the little one.
Kate and William became proud parents to a healthy baby boy weighing 8lb 6oz at 4.24pm at the Lindo Wing in St. Mary’s Hospital. – via OK! Magazine (original story on Google cache July 24).