Ulrika Jonsson Strikes Back at British Tabloids
In a column posted to the website of the UK’s Daily Mail, Ulrika Jonsson said that despite "cruel jabs" by the British tabloids, she feels no shame in the 70-pound weight gain she experienced while pregnant with her son Malcolm Charles Trip, 8 ½-weeks. Quite the opposite, Ulrika says she is "proud to show off the after-effects" of a body which has "done something miraculous by giving birth to a fourth baby."
It wasn’t long after I became pregnant [with Malcolm] that pictures of a well-covered, rather too-well-upholstered me began to appear in the media…But as the months of pregnancy went by, I began to revel in the fact that I was growing a life inside me, and that, for once, the way I looked was of secondary importance to that. And, by God, it was liberating.
The 40-year-old British television presenter went on to lament the "relentless pressure on female celebrities — and perhaps, to a lesser degree, on women everywhere — to be thin all the time, but especially after pregnancy." It’s a phenomenon Ulrika labeled "insidious and damaging," and it’s something she says she won’t fall victim to.
I refuse to have my first precious weeks with my two-month-old son marred by insecurities over the way I look.
Ulrika is also mom to Cameron Oskar George, 13, Bo Eva Coeur, 7 ½, and Martha Sky Hope; Malcolm is her first child with husband Brian Monet.
Source: Daily Mail; Photo by Eamonn McCormack/WireImage.
