Rosemary MacCabe: an essay

In this essay for the Business Post Magazine, Rosemary MacCabe writes about body image, pregnancy and about finally becoming more comfortable in her own skin

Rosemary McCabe: “What had, for a blissful few months, been something to worship, was now back to being something to get rid of”

I have never liked my body more than I did at 40 weeks pregnant. I was swollen, engorged, without an ankle in sight and yet, when I caught sight of myself in our bathroom mirror, placed directly opposite the bath (who decided this?! Not a woman), for the first time I was happy. I was proud.

It’s a cliché, this idea that, when pregnant, women are at their most beautiful – and, clearly, it’s highly ...