Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the highly acclaimed Americanah, dropped a bombshell during her latest interview with the Financial Times. The writer revealed that she had given birth to a baby, which shocked many of her fans.
“This is the first time I’m saying it publicly. I have a lovely little girl so I feel like I haven’t slept … but it’s also just really lovely and strange,” she shared.
“I have some friends who probably don’t know I was pregnant or that I had a baby,” Adichie added. “I just feel like we live in an age when women are supposed to perform pregnancy. We don’t expect fathers to perform fatherhood. I went into hiding. I wanted it to be as personal as possible.”
The author may have a point as one search on YouTube renders hundreds of birthing experiences. In the celebrity sphere, an expectant star is sometimes viewed as selfish if she refuses to give her fans a daily update on her pregnancy. It seems that the barriers of privacy as they pertain to parenthood have blurred with the development of social media.
BCK Asks: What do you think? Do you view celebrity moms who keep their pregnancies private as selfish? Would you do the same if you were in their shoes?
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