{"id":68685,"date":"2016-04-27T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68685"},"modified":"2016-04-23T23:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T04:01:47","slug":"when-did-it-become-allowable-to-be-pregnant-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/04\/27\/when-did-it-become-allowable-to-be-pregnant-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did It Become Allowable to be Pregnant in Public?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pregnancy\u00a0wasn’t always something women did in public. In her\u00a0new book, Pregnant with the Stars<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Ren\u00e9e Ann Cramer puts\u00a0public pregnancies under the sociological microscope, but she notes that it is only recently that being publicly pregnant became socially acceptable. Even as recently as the 1950s, pregnancy was supposed to be a private matter, hidden behind closed doors. That big round belly was, she argues, “an indicator that sex had taken place, [which] was simply considered too risqu\u00e9 for polite company.”<\/p>\n

Lucille Ball was the first person on television to acknowledge a pregnancy, real or fictional. It was 1952, but it was considered lewd to actually say the word “pregnant,” so the episode<\/a>\u00a0used euphemisms like “blessed event” or simply referred to having a baby or becoming a father.<\/p>\n