Chrissie Swan
It’s time to step up our protests against intrusive pictures of public people in their private moments.
This week we have seen two examples of shameful media intrusion and outright hypocrisy.
The first is the publication of pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge’s royal baby bump, revealed while she was wearing a bikini on a private holiday.
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I was recently asked for my thoughts on fellow expectant mother Chrissie Swan’s mea culpa. Star of reality television, Logie darling, she that doles out down homey advice in the kind of warm, engaging tone all wannabe gal pals should study as the gold standard.
The weekly, suburban meditation of her fears, failings and foibles attracts equal parts praise and scorn. From daring to raise fat kids to the pitfalls of the inner city hipster. All manner of tidbits she coughs up apparently warrant further discussion.
Well, unfortunately for the mother of two and to the delight of the gossip mags and the Twittersphere, Chrissie was papped doing two things at once - smoking and being pregnant.
A couple of things struck me about this whole saga.
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Testfest says:
So I guess that means doctors should start prescribing cigarettes as a pregnancy supplement now? I hope you’re just trolling and are not really this stupid. Read more »
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Chillin says:
I hope you and your fellow nurse weren’t allowed access to patients http://www.babycenter.com/0_how-smoking-during-pregnancy-affects-you-and-your-baby_1405720.bc Read more »
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