Baby-carrying bores just confine other mothers | Barbara Ellen

Denise van Outen may be the victim of a Victorian notion of pregnancy. But drama-queen mothers-to-be don't help the causeHow quaint to hear from Denise van Outen that she has been excluded from the judging panel of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new BBC show, Over the Rainbow, because, as one producer after another told her, she is pregnant.It's as if we are seeing the return of the Victorian notion of pregnancy as a debilitating affliction – a "confinement" so incapacitating that it could stop va...

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