I’m posting this after the jump to give you fair warning – what you are about to see will astound and frighten you. TMZ claims to have an exclusive photo of Nadya Suleman, new mother of octuplets, revealing her pregnancy belly.
Ladies, cross your legs and prepare yourselves.
(Struggles for air). While you know we are fans of the female form here, in all its glorious array of shapes and sizes, I cannot handle this.
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February 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I wish I hadn’t looked. It hurts.
February 12, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I actually considered if it was insensitive to post this immediately after the RU-486 post from yesterday.
Just coincidence, I swear. I need to go lie down again.
February 12, 2009 at 2:27 pm
OH HELL NO.
By the way, I just met up with my ob/gyn sister, who strangely had not heard about this case yet, and she won’t believe more than 3 embryos were used. She’s in denial that any doctor would do that, ever, anywhere in the world.
Apparently they only put in 3, sometimes 4, embryos when a woman is over 35, 1-2 when she’s under 25 and never – ever – more (in The Netherlands, at least).
February 12, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Dear god, this is bodily mutilation, right? She did it to herself, to simulate to an extreme a natural process (like giant breast augmentation simulates growing natural breasts), in the name of pleasing some societal worship of fertility and beauty. Only she took it too far (like plastic surgery addicts) and now society thinks she is ridiculous. This photo also makes me think it’s extraordinary that women’s bodies can take everything that’s thrown at them. Good luck to her and her tiny babies.
February 12, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Okay, I don’t know how, but that made my penis hurt.
February 12, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@macloserboy: It’s because you have eyes. It made my everything hurt.
February 12, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Maybe that should be shown to teenaged girls. “see…this could happen to you. Now use a damn condom.”
February 12, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I thought to myself, “it couldn’t be that bad…” How wrong I was. I think you’ve officially killed what was left of my sex drive by posting this gargantuan stretch-marky Woman of Willendorf scariness.
February 12, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I think I’m going to go finish my pack of Seasonique and chase it with a bottle of bourbon. BRB.
February 12, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Oh, gods. I’ve always prided myself on being someone who isn’t disgusted by anything. I mean, I grew up watching surgeries, listening to my family talking about bowel movements, autopsies and whatever during meals. But I was eating a bowl of cereal when I clicked on the post, and I actually gagged when I saw that picture. I could fit into that stomach! Oh, poor tummy–both hers and mine.
February 12, 2009 at 4:12 pm
A woman’s body can endure a great deal, but this is pushing it to the edge. I wonder how close her uterous was to rupturing?
The fertility clinic that set the stage for this disaster needs their credentials flushed down the toilet.
February 12, 2009 at 4:21 pm
i’m not that grossed out or anything. i mean, yeah, what do you think it would look like carrying 8 babies around in your stomach. it’s kind of amazing – how the body works, how the stomach expands and stretches so much in order to carry babies.
my concern is for her BACK.
February 12, 2009 at 4:22 pm
@Green: I dunno, but she looks close to bursting. The human body is an amazing thing, but this is outrageous – and as SkipToMyLou indicated, far beyond a natural process. I’ve seen the normal, pregnancy-belly veins before but this looks so dangerous.
I suppose this could turn out to be photoshopped but appears to be the genuine article to me. Plus, it was on TMZ, bastion of qualified reporting and informed taste.
February 12, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Nonononononononononononononononononononono.
No.
February 12, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Look at my boo. So wise and logical.
February 12, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Oh boy. This isn’t after a cut on the feed.
This is even worse than those shots of Kate Gosselin’s belly.
February 12, 2009 at 5:03 pm
oh that is just wrong. it looks like a magnified testicle being stepped on.
February 12, 2009 at 5:27 pm
kadisky: normally, that would hurt me, but that picture has put me beyond it.
February 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Mac: Oddly, when I see a guy get kicked in the balls, my tits hurt. What the fuck?
That photo: it’s the veins that got me. Oh God the veins …..
February 12, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Kadinsky: Hilarious!
She looks like that girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who turns into a blueberry.
February 12, 2009 at 6:34 pm
“you’re turning violet, Violet!”
Violet Beauregard.
February 12, 2009 at 7:10 pm
@TF: This is SO dangerous for countless reasons. A woman’s body was NEVER designed to endure this much stress.
She obviously has some unaddressed mental health issues and a damn fertility clinic somewhere has some serious ethical, professional standards issues!! Gah at the fucking self-centered stupidity in this case.
February 12, 2009 at 8:43 pm
This picture is so disturbing on so many levels.
This woman has been getting disability payments for having a BACK INJURY!
Umm can anyone say FRAUD???
February 12, 2009 at 8:51 pm
It’s beginning to emerge that she had an Angelina Jolie obsession … just as I suspected when I saw those lips and that flight Earth Mother interview!!!
That’s taking a celebrity obsession a bit far, no??
February 13, 2009 at 4:56 am
I wonder who’s gonna pay for her tummy tuck.
February 13, 2009 at 8:26 am
Holy crap. That completely negated the effect of the cute kids on the subway today. Eep.
@AYL: I too worry about her back, especially because she evidently had an earlier spine/back problem.
February 13, 2009 at 10:39 am
Oh, my eyes!! I’m beyond words right now and preggo w/ my first child and suddenly CELEBRATING my baby bump the fact that I can’t fit into my old jeans.
I can’t imagine the amount of moisturizer this woman had to use because, damn all the skin stretching gets itchy. I mean it looks like that thing can take an entire tub of cocoa butte.
February 13, 2009 at 1:31 pm
@h_a_l: my first reaction was cocoa butter.