Baby Bumps Disgust Me – Chimamanda Adichie

According to the mother of one, this is the reason she kept her pregnancy a top secret when she was expecting her child.

She disclosed this in a recent interview with UK’s Channel 4 News, where she spoke about racism in America and the UK, among other matters.

She said: “I wanted my pregnancy to be something I shared with the people I love, with the people who know me. There is a kind of pregnancy as a trendy thing that I find very uncomfortable with and I deeply dislike expressions like ‘baby bump’.

“I find it very irritating. It was a very deeply introspective time, thinking about (how) my life is going to change forever and the enormousness of bringing a baby into the world. It was a sacred time for me and I wanted to share it with the people I love.”

Her criticism is coming at a time where the ear of flaunting baby-bumps on the internet has become a way of life by celebrities around the world.

On describing how she would train her child, the award-winning writer noted that the child must understand that it is abnormal for one’s face to be in the newsapaper.

“I don’t want her to think it is normal to have her picture in newspapers, because it is not. Just because your mother happens to write and sometimes have her pictures in the newspapers, doesn’t mean you get to.”
Chimamanda is a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and has been called “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”

She was born in the city of Enugu, Enugu State and studied Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Nigeria. The Half of a Yellow Sun author currently lives in the United States, from her stance it shows that she has not lost a sense of home.