This is a Global Player Original podcast.

Welcome to this dirty Motherpucker.

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna Whitehouse, the founder of

Motherpucker, and it is the one, the very only Polly Hazelwood, my BFF. There she is, for one and all.

Thank you very much. That lovely intro. Hello. So welcome, my friend. So this is in light of

a recent story, okay, about Rihanna and Taylor Swift.

So Rihanna was on stage postpartum and a lot of the crowds, a lot of the media were like,

oh my God, she looked pregnant still, like it was just this frenzy around her body.

Taylor Swift walked on Swift, like,

walked on stage, maybe, you know, she was on a period and was a tiny bit bloated in her sequined

onesie. And it was just this frenzy of like, oh my God, look at her body. In the same time,

there were thousands of stars, thousands of male celebrities walking on two stages, probably in different

states of weight, gain or loss, not being commented on.

Absolutely.

So wrong.

And I sit here, you know, pregnant.

And I have, from the second I started showing to this very day, have had almost a comment a day. A lot of it,

and I really want to preface this conversation with how well-intentioned is. You know, it's not people

coming up to him going, oh, oyoi, fati. It is people, like, trying to have a conversation around pregnancy and what has landed

has ranged from, oh, that's a big bump, to, oh, you're carrying your baby quite high, or, you know,

I think you're carrying a girl because, you know, you're carrying more weight to also a family member who went, don't worry, you'll lose it very quickly after you've had

the baby. And I said, I didn't even mention I had an issue here. I love that you're preempting

...