Why being famous stinks sometimes... Poor Kate!

My husband, being British, always gets a lot of questions about the royal family. Most of the time he doesn’t know the answer. Always, he couldn’t care less. He’s not really a tabloid or popular culture kind of person, unless its science or government related, for the most part. The royal family and their adventures don’t make his interest list. 

For the most part, I agree with him. That said, I am very much a people person and it’s no wonder that I studied psychology. I love the study of people. I love to study how they think and why they do what they do. I feel badly for them when I see them suffering. Regardless of what part of society they inhabit. 

And that’s the only reason I have paid any attention to the whole debacle of Kate and William, as everyone waits for this precious royal baby. And to tell you the truth, all I feel for them is sympathy. 

When the tabloids first started in on Kate, suspecting pregnancy and detecting that almost invisible baby bump, I cringed. Poor girl… what if she just ate too much the week before and her royal schedule made it impossible to get to the gym? What if she were bloated? I mean really, she is just a woman. And to be honest, she looks really good. I wouldn’t mind having that body or that face. Frankly, she’s beautiful.

Then the media finds out that she is, in fact, pregnant. And they find out because she is admitted to the hospital with pregnancy related symptoms. And they post it everywhere. How nice of them to be so very informative. (Insert heavy dose of sarcasm here) 

We looked online and the given story is that her “symptoms” were basically full blown morning sickness. I hope that’s true, for her sake as a woman. I know lots of women who suffered terrible morning sickness and produced healthy children regardless of their significant discomfort.  In the long run, I guess it’s better for the mom to be sick as hell than the kid to inherit such symptoms. Right?

But what if it’s not morning sickness? What if it really is a serious complication and they were keeping the pregnancy quiet until they could verify that it was without significant risk of miscarriage? It’s pretty early for complications, based on her physical appearance. That would not bode well. 

 I’ve never had a miscarriage but I know many women who have, and they have all been devastated. And THEY didn’t have to share their sadness with, oh, the entire world. I mean really, like it isn’t bad enough to suffer alone or with those that love you. You have to suffer publicly?

No thank you. 

And so, I sincerely hope that Kate is “just” suffering from an enormous case of morning sickness. I hope that she is simply bearing the burden for a beautiful little unborn baby. Because I don’t care how regal she is, how big her house is or how many servants she has… at this moment in life she is a woman, a mom and a wife. Everything else is secondary. 

And I hope it all turns out well for her and the man she loves, because we all deserve to have the healthy family we yearn for.