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Yummy Mommy Angst

Submitted by Adriana Rae on May 19, 2008 - 12:35.

Are you a yummy mommy? Or aspiring to be a yummy mummy? Trying to keep up the body and cool from pre-mommy days with surgical mommy makeovers, $2,900 strollers, a yummy tummy, and botoxed forehead?

A lot of moms are feeling angst around this yummy mommy pressure these days.

There's a great article summing up the yucky yummy mommy Zeitgeist at the Georgia Straight. Here's a few excerpts;

The term 'yummy mummy' started as a shorthand for the glamorization of motherhood, a celebrity-led trend featuring "too-posh-to-push" C-sections, sleek and sexy maternity fashion, and a rapid return to fitness, hipness, and career. But for most mothers, that lifestyle is a fantasy.

Yummy mummy is negating the fact that we're not just the same people but with a baby...In mothering circles, some of the brand-new moms say, 'I had this image of myself pushing a Bugaboo, wearing skinny jeans, drinking a latte.' Soon after the birth, ... they discover the truth.

For a mom's life even to slightly resemble her former world, it takes lots of money–enough for a nanny, a diaper service, a maid service, and the "right" baby wardrobe and accessories. The term yummy mummy has serious class overtones...


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