Comments on: Rocking the Bump: Halle Berry

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:47:07 +0000

Well, I’m just enchanted by the sass of it and the way she carries it off. I’m not pregnant and I haven’t got the guts to wear a tight lycra dress.

You’re right, she does look healthy. The knife-edge jawline does not belong on a normal pregnant woman.

By: Alias Mother

Alias Mother — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:02:22 +0000

I think that dress is a poor, poor choice. That said, thank heavens that we are finally seeing a real-looking pregnant celebrity. So often they look like stick figures with a fake pregnancy bump strapped on the front and I always think, “Ladies, the baby needs more than carrot sticks.” But Ms. Halle looks great and far more like a healthy incubator should look.

By: BlueShoes

BlueShoes — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:46:48 +0000

Put me in as not a fan of the dress. I think it’s actually cut for someone *more* pregnant than she is (and I agree, she looks more than 3 months, but women do start to show at different rates). That’s why the ruching near the waistline is all rucked up on her butt. The dress is cut in at the shoulders in a fashion that makes it appear that she put a t-back sportsbra top on backwards. The narrowness of the front would fail to cover most bra straps, and it does someone whose breasts have suddenly gone up a cup size or two no favors. I don’t think the color suits her either.

Lovely woman. The dress should be taken out and shot.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:30:36 +0000

Static cling? That looks like lycra to me, at LEAST 15%. She probably bought it so it would stretch to Hindenberg proportions if needed. She’ll be wearing this a lot, I think.

By: Junebug

Junebug — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:29:47 +0000

Agree that she’s rocking the preggo body.
But I gotta disagree on the overall effect. I’m sorry, but that static cling-looking wrinkly mess is just awful. This says less “avant garde” than it screams “dryer sheets, please!” Oh, and I understand about the preggo nips, but damn! Put away the cK bra already.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:47:03 +0000

It’s more stagey to say “actor” as in stage actors all do it, but Made-For-TV movie actors don’t. T’was a big thing in the Seventies, when a lot of professions got renamed, so you don’t get “lady butcher” or “male secretary” anymore. Gender specificity focuses on the gender, not the activity. I leave it to those who practice a craft to tell me what to call them. It’s shorter, anyway.

Besides, it was Vancouver. We’re all equal-opportunity up here. Maybe she thought it was the Done Thing? (which it is. I know people who go out in fishing boats who call themselves “fishers”)

By: Annalucia

Annalucia — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:41:33 +0000

“Well, my name is Halle, and I’m an actor.”

What has happened to the word “actress”? Is it now forbidden?

By: Ana

Ana — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:24:29 +0000

It just makes me sick that celebs always look so darn good when they are preggo!Waaaaah…why couldn’t it be me! She does look lovely though!

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:23:08 +0000

I love that she’s not the least bit shy about what’s going on with her body. To paraphrase Gloria Steinem: THIS is how “pregnant” looks!

By: Twistie

Twistie — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:25:23 +0000

Yay! for wearing flat shoes with baby on board! And cute, sparkly sandals, to boot.

I’m glad Halle is showing good sense as well as excellent taste. Then again, I would expect no less of her.