In This Viral Photo, Both Women are Heavily Pregnant, Thus Showing How Every Pregnancy Looks Different
If there's anything we've learnt about pregnancy, it's that we still don't really know much. We all gaped at our screens when Sarah Stage shared her pregnancy pictures—and we gaped because somehow she still had abs while pregnant.
Of course, she received heavy criticism for looking like a non-traditional pregnant woman at 8 and 1\2 months, but she delivered a healthy baby boy, so everything seems good.
And now, fitness model Chontel Duncan is using her Instagram to show the world how the only photo we're used to seeing of pregnant women - with huge tummies - may not be the only way they can look. And, most importantly, that every pregnancy is different.
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This photo, taken in November, features Duncan and her friend, Natalie Smith, and while it looks like Duncan is barely pregnant at 21 weeks, and Smith is heavily pregnant, both women are only 4 weeks apart. Smith is due to deliver at the beginning of March, and Duncan, at the end of March.
Duncan writes, “Each woman carries differently and this most certainly doesn’t mean one is doing something wrong or not healthy. We both have healthy growing babies and we both have had incredible pregnancies so far.”
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Duncan has received her fair share of criticism from people who think heavy exercise during pregnancy is wrong, even though doctors have said clearly that it's perfectly fine. Duncan decided then that it was important for her to document her pregnancy, “because it seems that we are misled to believe that we are more fragile than we really are. We lose focus on one of the most important components (of a healthy pregnancy,) keeping ourselves physically and mentally strong.”
Her last pregnancy update was on 9th March, where she was at a very healthy 37 weeks, and still looking perfectly happy.
