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Celebs Have Pregnancy Cravings! And So Do We!

It makes me feel a lot better about how quickly celebrity mamas slurp in the post-partum jelly belly and slide back into size --2 (surely, that's a size now, right?) pre-preggers jeans to know that they are craving the same crazy shit we normal mamas still wearing the post-partum jelly belly years later are.

Halle Berry's chowing down on pickles and salty stuff (and so my love for her grows that much deeper), Usher's wife Tameka Foster's chomping on lots of ice (seriously?), Drea de Matteo's got a hankering for Italian cuisine (mmmm, lasagna) and the Gen X representative of the strange and conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, is downing gluten-free cookies (what? does this mean she too has crunchy granola moments?) and watermelon sprinkled with salt and lime (and possibly frat boy moments? hello, fruit salad tequila style!).  I know for sure, we can beat these paltry celebs at the craving game. So while they're sneaking into Costco to buy crunchy dills and Nature's Best cookies, let's make our own list of kooky crap we craved while we were pregnant.

The Strollerderby staff is happy to kick it off with this list of hormone-induced must-haves:

1. Kelly got down with a sandwich made in the OCD style only women growing human beings can come up with. Check this: "Roast beef deli sandwiches on dutch crunch rolls, extra mayo and pickles. You open the sandwich and layer cheddar cheese ruffles potato chips inside, then seal it back up and eat that shit. Aw yeah..." Thanks for (bluuurp) that, Kells. Kelly also adds that she craved never being pregnant again. Good stuff!

2. Redsy apparently turned into a high school sophomore at lunch in the school caf while she was with child. She was all about the coke (COLA, people! we're not that loose around here, gawd) and Ruffles of the sour cream, onion and cheddar variety (what's with those? did a pregnant woman come up with that barfable flavor?).

3. Karen played it safe and meaty while she was boasting the bump. She was all about pineapple and cupcakes (aww), all kinds of meat (even though she all veggie and whatnot) and bananas with Tootsie Rolls (huh?).

4. I honestly did crave more than porn. Really! It was red meat, Thai food and McDonald's soft serve cones for me all. day. long. Too bad I didn't know any pregnant celebrities then, because I so would have brought them over to the dark side of gaining good, solid prenatal weight the right way.

5. I don't know it for a fact, but I have it on good authority that Mike craved his blankie and oak-barrel aged scotch during his wife's pregnancy. You and Nicole Richie, Mike. You and Nicole.

What about you? What crazy stuff did you crave that could easily elevate you to pregnant celebrity status?
 

 


Comments

 

LogicalMama said:

Salmon and cesar salads! And lemonade! oh, I can't forget that I loved a pint of Haagan Daz chocolate melted and then I'd drink it like a shake in one sitting......

September 27, 2007 3:11 PM
 

LogicalMama said:

Hasselback has celiac's so she's gluten free all the time....

September 27, 2007 3:12 PM
 

Jessica said:

Taco Bell hardshell tacos.  Last pregnancy it was their burritos.  When I'm not pregnant, you won't catch me anywhere near Taco Bell.  Yuck!

September 27, 2007 3:34 PM
 

aaustin said:

With my first, it was watermelon and Mexican food.  I ate so many fajitas, I was certain that she was going to come out Hispanic (which my husband and I are not, so I would've had a lot of 'splainin' to do).  With my second, I was *constantly* thirsty, and couldn't get enough water, but that could be because I was still breastfeeding my first.

September 27, 2007 3:54 PM
 

julielynn said:

Lucky Charms, baby!  I was buying like 3 boxes at a time.

September 27, 2007 3:55 PM
 

RachelZ said:

LogicalMama, you are HARD CORE.  

My craving was buffalo chicken strips.  And B&J Vermonty Python ice cream.  And there was the one day I ate an entire jar of green olives whilst standing in front of the fridge.  I never did any odd mixing, though, like the proverbial ice cream and pickles.  Even pregnant, I knew that was wrong.  Oh, and I had to have cheese on everything.  EVERYTHING.

September 27, 2007 4:18 PM
 

514mama said:

salt and vinegar chips... strangely it's the same thing I crave when I am hung-over. hmmmmm

September 27, 2007 4:46 PM
 

crunchy said:

right now it is the green apple flavor jones soda

September 27, 2007 5:22 PM
 

Karen Murphy said:

Ohhh, totally forgot about the McD's softserve.  In VANILLA, no less.  WTH??

September 27, 2007 5:35 PM
 

Michele said:

Ate tomato soap, popcorn and a grapefruit every day for lunch for more than half the pregnancy.  I was on bedrest for part of it, and my husband would have brought me ANYTHING I wanted and I stuck to the ts-pc-gf trifecta.

And big fat deli pickles, and jelly beans, at the same time, but not in the same bite.

September 28, 2007 11:03 AM
 

Strollerderby said:

Hormones are a funny thing, and no, not "ha ha" funny, so don't even think about laughing because we are feeling a little emotional right now and we don't need that kind of crap... Okay, hormones. They make some pregnant ladies cringe

October 17, 2007 12:45 PM
 

hoosthatgirl said:

MALL PRETZELS! I can't get enough of them with the cheesy dipping sauce. I am seven months right now and I fantasize about mall pretzels.  Like the ones they sell at Auntie Anne's.  

October 19, 2007 10:00 AM

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