. After I lost my own pregnancy at 16 weeks, I fielded comments about my postpartum body, several of which came from those closest to me. When I met up with a friend for lunch in an attempt to regain some normalcy, I was reminded of the unrelenting obsession our culture has with surveilling and commenting on women’s bodies—be it pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, postpartum or never partum at all. “You look svelte—as if you weren’t even pregnant,” my friend uttered from across the table.
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