Salon.com > uterus http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 09:17:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Shakira’s fetal fixation http://www.salon.com/2012/12/07/shakiras_fetal_fixation/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/07/shakiras_fetal_fixation/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13118134 Call me old-fashioned, but I just don't want to see what's going on inside Shakira's uterus. The 35-year-old Colombian singer, famed for her guileless coxal region, is currently expecting her first child in the new year with her boyfriend, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué. As is now mandatory for all celebrity mothers-to-be, she has already announced the baby's sex (It's a boy!) and posted a photo of herself smiling and showing off her round, bare belly. But on Thursday, she jumped on the latest de rigueur trend in social networking through pregnancy: disseminating the ultrasound photo.

It started with Piqué posting the image on his WhoSay account, with the caption "His first pic! #excited #cute." I'm not the dad, but it looks ... like an ultrasound. Shakira promptly retweeted it, and before the day was out you couldn't go online without seeing the black-and-white profile of Shakira's fetus and the random womb blobs surrounding him, accompanied by a headline about the "first ultrasound photo." That has a portentous ring of more to come, doesn't it? Parents, is this really going to be a thing with you from now on?

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