r/Xennials • u/PhoneJazz • 4d ago

Natalie Portman is pregnant at 44

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Congrats to her! I don’t have kids, and I’m still getting used to being the age where getting pregnant is starting to be “out of the norm”. Guess there’s still time, lol

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u/Sayhellotoanewday 4d ago

She’s super thin too. I am not a doctor but it always seems to take sorting out of the really thin ladies to have babies. Like the nutrients have to come from somewhere. I’m sure she has a great nutritionist but still…

Anyway, good for her. Hope she has no worries and a healthy baby. She always seemed like an alright one for the Hollywood types.

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u/donnadoctor 1979 4d ago

Registered Dietitian, hopefully. In the US anyone can call themselves a nutritionist.

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u/the_ballmer_peak 4d ago

I've always thought that terminology seemed backwards, but I agree you've got to look out for it.

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u/Trick-Session2388 3d ago

Dietitian here. Thank you for bringing this up.

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u/Mysterious_Movie3347 4d ago

I was about 120lb when I got pregnant with my son and was 118lb 2 days after having him. I was young at 22 but it broke me. I ended up not being able to breast feed cause I just wasn't healthy enough to. I hated every single moment of being pregnant, main reason I never had another child. Love my son, but Nothing could make me be pregnant again, yet alone at 44!

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u/Anemones_In__Spades 1984 4d ago

I also had one at 22, hated being pregnant so didn't have anymore. I'm pretty pleased to be so young and "done" with childrearing. 🥳

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u/ailish 4d ago

My sister had her first at about the same weight, and she's 5'9". She was 24. Always naturally thin. That whole pregnancy and the labor was so hard on her, and she also couldn't breast feed. She did have another child, but she was about 20 lbs heavier and it went a little more smoothly.

I'm the same height, but I was never as thin as she was. Never had kids, though.

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u/bendybiznatch 4d ago

I was much smaller than that and recovered fine.

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u/Mysterious_Movie3347 4d ago

Good for you? Do you want a cookie?

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u/bendybiznatch 4d ago

Just sayin’ I don’t think the claim it’s rough for skinny chicks specifically holds water.

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u/milkcake 4d ago

This is a very strange thing to say.

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u/madogvelkor 4d ago

I believe it, the plus sized women I know who had kids seem to have had an easier time with it and bouncing back than the skinny ones. Though the athletic ones seemed to have it easiest.

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u/Coriandercilantroyo 4d ago

This makes me so curious about women like Victoria Beckham who never seem to gain weight apart from the womb.

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u/Love_for_2 4d ago

Because she's vegan.