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I’m halfway through the vlog whilst washing my hair, and my goodness, it’s a good job that Anna doesn’t have a real job so that she can spend all day turning her pregnancy into a school project.
She is making notes on EVERYTHING. Every little symptom, every craving. And every single day of the week as well. Surely there must be days where there is nothing new to report?! Clearly, this explains why her content has been so dire/absent this year.
Early into the vlog, she even admits that she’s “nervous” for the first day “back in the office” on January 4th... what? What does this even mean for her? I really feel for any early pregnant women watching who have to face being on their feet all day, working in public facing roles during a pandemic.
I work in an industry where 60+ hour weeks are the norm: I wonder if I should ask my colleagues with children whether they had time to also log every detail of their pregnancies on both an app and paper whilst continuing to work...
I’m halfway through the vlog whilst washing my hair, and my goodness, it’s a good job that Anna doesn’t have a real job so that she can spend all day turning her pregnancy into a school project.
She is making notes on EVERYTHING. Every little symptom, every craving. And every single day of the week as well. Surely there must be days where there is nothing new to report?! Clearly, this explains why her content has been so dire/absent this year.
Early into the vlog, she even admits that she’s “nervous” for the first day “back in the office” on January 4th... what? What does this even mean for her? I really feel for any early pregnant women watching who have to face being on their feet all day, working in public facing roles during a pandemic.
I work in an industry where 60+ hour weeks are the norm: I wonder if I should ask my colleagues with children whether they had time to also log every detail of their pregnancies on both an app and paper whilst continuing to work...
I found her pretty pathetic in that vlog tbh. She has the luxury of staying at home and doing duck all while she deals with early pregnancy symptoms. I’m sure I’m not the only one who had to go to work and not let on to anyone and just generally feel like tit while HAVING TO WORK. I worked in a restaurant and it was the worst, the smells, the being on my feet all day, I hated it but you just have to suck it up! Then from 5 months onward having to use a crutch for excruciating hip pain. And my pregnancy wasn’t even that bad!
Yeah, I mean I felt a bit precious and over the top in my first pregnancy because I was checking to see what size baby was and what was developing etc every few days or so but she is taking it to another level!
I also did not note down a single symptom or craving because I have a real job and a life.
I have major deja vu from watching Zoella’s vlog... these vapid, narcissistic women who have literally nothing better to do with their time than write down every single thing they feel at every minute of every day. I swear if anyone, pregnant or not, did this then they’d be just as hyper-aware of their ‘symptoms’ which are actually just day-to-day, mundane, being a human feelings.
At like, 6 weeks, she was noting down that they’d gone to the supermarket and bought everything she was “craving”, such as biscuits and fish fingers... is this not just fancying fish fingers for dinner, and wanting a packet of biscuits to have with your cup of tea?
I don’t know, it all seems a bit obsessive and disingenuous to me. I’ve been pregnant (disclaimer: I’ve never had a baby though, and I don’t know anything personally about how pregnancy feels post 11 weeks), and I didn’t even realise until I was gone 7 weeks. Surely a lot of what she’s talking about in the earliest weeks (boob stuff aside), is just ordinary, every day bodily fluctuations?
Like... who profoundly notices that they have “more saliva than usual”?!
I have major deja vu from watching Zoella’s vlog... these vapid, narcissistic women who have literally nothing better to do with their time than write down every single thing they feel at every minute of every day. I swear if anyone, pregnant or not, did this then they’d be just as hyper-aware of their ‘symptoms’ which are actually just day-to-day, mundane, being a human feelings.
Whatever happened to 12min videos with a summary of how it went? Why is it so important to make us sit through 35-55min long videos? I watched only the first few minutes of both Anna's and Zoella's videos, no matter how bored I am and need a background video when when I'm washing my hair, cooking, cleaning, I still am not able to sit through this drivel.
Whatever happened to 12min videos with a summary of how it went? Why is it so important to make us sit through 35-55min long videos? I watched only the first few minutes of both Anna's and Zoella's videos, no matter how bored I am and need a background video when when I'm washing my hair, cooking, cleaning, I still am not able to sit through this drivel.
Haha I enjoyed Anna’s video because I’m currently in the first trimester. I have a full time job and write down my symptoms in my notes app occasionally because it’s interesting to me and I am in denial I am actually pregnant so it’s mentally helpful for me to look back on. I’m in a reddit forum and many women track how many weeks + days they are and obsess over symptoms far more than Anna seems too. Seems normal to me...
I would prefer Anna, she at least is tiny bit less narcissistic. Zoe actually went ahead with uploading an hour long video about her first trimester, describing in grim detail how afraid she was of throwing up. Anna is still a few steps behind the big headedness of Zoe.
I watched the first ten minutes of the video, wondered if she did anything but talk and giggle for the remaining 25 and noped out when I skipped ahead a bit. That wasn't a vlog, it's a 35 min sit-down waffle without much content at all. Can't believe I'm saying this but I much prefer Lily's first trimester vlogs....
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At least her nails are clean. Can you imagine if Lily did this ad? Dirt for days under her nails.
I don't think Anna's skin looks that great here. It's not terrible or anything - but it has looked better. I understand she's had hormonal breakouts from the babeh but maybe not the best time to be posting a ££££ skincare ad. This would not tempt me to buy Allies of Skin even though I have been known to spend silly money on skincare. Someone mentioned a few weeks back that her nose has changed shape/looks bigger? I see it too. The slug eyebrows are doing her less favours than ever now that she's gained weight on her face. So bitchy, I know. Miaow!
Her skin looks so blah, she does have nice nails. But skin? Nope, I am not convinced that crazy expensive Allies of Skin product will help if that's what her skin looks like.
I’m sorry, but I can’t get over how cringe this photo is.
It puts me so off the product. And I cringe thinking about what led to this photo — what’s the point of it? Am I supposed to see that you have beautiful skin because of this product, but it does not evoke that feeling in me. In fact, it’s so cringe it’s distracting, especially with that open mouth situmoment.
It’s like she’s the one spying on the neighbors and got caught.
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