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Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Obama baby bump watch begins

Blogs are abuzz with gossip that the first lady is preggers.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Friday, January 30, 2009 02:24 PM

    Bored now.

    I'm not faulting Broadsheet for covering this, but I'm so sick of the whole "baby bump" thing. All the speculation about celebrity pregnancy in general is so. incredibly. tedious. Almost as boring as the breastfeeding-in-public debate. Makes me long for the fifties, when it was taboo to utter the word "pregnant" on the teevee and movie stars very carefully stage-managed their images and were fiercely protective of their privacy.

    But all the comments expressing hope that this imaginary child will be a boy--they kind of bother me a bit, you know? As if two daughters, no matter how delightful, could never possibly be enough.

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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