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?