Helena Bonham Carter on her pregnancy and toy annoyances
Actress Helena Bonham Carter, 41, expects her second child next month. No, she and Tim Burton do not know the sex, and please don’t bother to guess (see below). In the latest issue of BlackBook, Helena shares her pregnancy annoyances, as well as the problem with 4-year-old son Billy Ray’s toys.
Here is my knee-jerk list of the little things in life thatirritate. (I’m pregnant, so basically everything annoys me.) Such as:
1. People — particularly men — saying with surprise, ‘You’re stilldrinking caffeine?’ as if I’m performing a criminal act on my unborn asI tuck into my treasured one-a-day cup of tea/coffee. Yeah. You trynine months of gestation and self-abnegation before you start censoringmy diet. Your mother was probably on vodka, and do you have three heads?
2. People who say, ‘Is there another in there?,’ or, ‘Wow, you aresoooo big!!!’ One might not be technically fat, but still ‘big’ doesnot work for me.
3. People I don’t know who, unsolicited, guess, with absolute conviction, what sex of child I’m going to have. (I have no idea.)
4. Seeing actresses in films and models in catalogs pretending tobe pregnant with a solitary neat football of a bump on an otherwiseunchanged body. Haven’t they noticed that everything inflates… boobs, bum, legs.
5. Kids’ toys that come with no batteries, thus delaying instantgratification of both parent and child. (Also demanding extra excursionfor adult.)
6. Kids’ toys that require more than 20 minutes — and an engineering degree — to assemble.
Source: BlackBook
Photo by Lorenzo Agius.
Do you relate to anything Helena said?
I especially love peeve number three, I totally agree with her on that one…lol!
