Body Image While Pregnant... - Akron,OH

I loved looking at my belly while pregnant. The ever expanding thighs, butt, and upper arms were another story.

No, I did not feel sexy while I was pregnant! But I don't really feel sexy when I am not pregnant so it is just a body image thing for me.

I LOVED being pregnant - I felt beautiful and maybe a little sexy. It was okay that I was growing...not because I ate to many twinkies, but because I was growing a baby....it was the most amazing thing I had ever done. I can't wait to be pregnangt again - I never felt so comfortable with myself!

I wouldn't say I felt sexy, but I felt beautiful and attractive. I embraced the way I looked because it was a blessing to be pregnant (with twins, too, so I had some extra body I needed to love!).

Sexy...maybe not. Sex-crazed...yes, until about 6-7 months. I was a big girl to start with and didn't actually have any net weight gain--I only gained back what I lost barfing all the time. It was terrible though...my husband left soon after I found out I was pregnant and it is awfully hard to find a boyfriend in that condition...lol.

I second "workingmom" below. I LOVE my belly, but the spreading thighs are really starting to make me crazy. I pitty the delivery nurses who have to look at them in a few months. At least my belly will shortly block my view of them! LOL

I dont know if sexy is the right word, but I like the way I look preggos :) I dont mind wearnig a bikini and letting my belly stick out, plus I love the way my boobs look hehe (TMI?sorry) I think its the one time iwhere its socially aceptable to have a little extra on you and not be expected to be bone thin :)

My husband loves the pregnant form. So, yes :)

I wouldn't say so much that I felt sexy but I felt the most comfortable in my skin that I've ever felt. Knowing that life was forming within me, feeling the motions and movements. I was proud to be pregnant. As for feeling sexy - that didn't happen until I adjusted to the sleep deprivation. :-)

The first time around, I felt SOOOO sexy. :) I wanted to walk around naked, make love to my husband, the whole nine yards. It was a very sensual experience for me. The second time around, however, I felt the furthest from sexy as you could get. I felt very beautiful and attractive for the most part, but it was not like the first time around.

Sexy - no. Much more accepting of how my body looked - yes.

No, although my husband did his best. But I don't feel sexy when pregnant.

Heck no! I thought I would love being pregnant, but about 4 months into my 1st pregnancy I was over it. I felt like a whale and people were constantly asking me if I was having twins. Right now I am almost 7 months pregnant with my 2nd baby, and people are already telling me how huge I am, and it must be a really big baby. My husband loves my pregnant body, he always tells me how beautiful I look. I don't think I look that big, and I've only gained 10 pounds, but when I try to walk I feel enormous. I'll be glad when this is over!

There were times when I felt really sexy...I wish I could have paraded around in a bikini but I live in such a small town the public would have frowned at me at the local pool :(

Oh lord NO. I felt like a penguin in pants. A penguin with enormous boobs and a second chin.

The only saving grace was that I was so horny with my second that I frankly didn't care : )

Not at all!! But my husband love every change in my body. Our youngest is 4 and he still says that he occassionally thinks of my prego belly & wishes he could rub it! :) He made me feel as sexy as he could -- without getting into my head & changing my own thoughts. :)

No. I have always been thin and it was weird for me to have a huge belly. I felt sick and awful all the time, so I think that had a lot to do with it. I hated every second of being pregnant. I would do it again, if we wanted another...but I dread pregnancy.

I felt great and sexy till about 2 weeks ago and that was at 27 weeks pregnant. Blah.. now I have back fat and a big a$$. My own grandma asked me today if I was a size 16 or 18 (I was a size 4 when I got pregnant). I LOVE my new boobs, hehe.. went from a 32A to a 34DD but that is about it. Don't like the butt. Haha.

Good luck!

Not me!! I didnt feel ugly, but just not sexy or sexual at all. And anytime my husband would tell me I was hot or sexy, I would just laugh and say thanks for trying to make me feel better. I dont know if he was being truthful, but being pregnant never made me feel any other way then pregnant lol

They hormone surges will do this to you. Usually after the third month. Although after the first, when I was pregnant with number two and he would be really active at night I frequently woke up my husband to have sex. The activity would quiet down the bady and I would be able to go to sleep. Plus he knew that he would be cut for at least 6 weeks after the baby came.

In first pregnancy, yes.
In second pregnancy, not so much.
S.

I felt sick to my stomach and the hormones made my skin extra greasy.

The short answer is, "No."

well I don't really think sexy is the word I would us for myself but I really do feel beautiful. I mean I know everyones body are different but I am a very thin person and so even when I am pregnant I stay little. So I still feel pretty and then special on top of it because I am carrying a child. Although toward the very end I get a lot of hip problems and pain so having sex with my hubby isn't all that fun so then I really don't feel sexy at that point.

Not me. In fact, I just got my "sexy" back about a month ago (when my son turned 17 months old).
I envy women who love their pregnant bodies.

I LOVED being pregnant. I had never felt so confident in a bathing suit.. or anything else for that matter! sure i had my " uhg im a fat cow" days... but for the most part i felt sooo beautiful. I miss being pregnant :(

I did. The bigger my belly got, the more my fat rolls went away. :-)

I think I kind of did?