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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Aubrey1(m): 5:57pm On Aug 14, 2016
When see opened her legs wide like River Niger, it's wasn't irritating.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by vivaciousvivi(f): 5:58pm On Aug 14, 2016
Chimamanda is in a pedestal all on her own..a very high pedestal.
Love her! kiss
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by bigtt76(f): 5:59pm On Aug 14, 2016
I get you clear. I don't mind people doing it and like you said it's their life and business how they want to live it. What I wouldn't subscribe to would be when someone or people are clamouring I live my life they way others do... that I won't take.

In Chimanda's case a lot of people were doubting her pregnancy because they didn't see the bump or hear about it until she made it public hence her publication


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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by otukpo(f): 5:59pm On Aug 14, 2016
That is a woman who was properly and adequately breast-fed by her mom.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Ranchhoddas: 6:01pm On Aug 14, 2016
Justeenaleo:
She must not like everything. If having a pregnancy shoot makes you happy while pregnant please go ahead. She is talking from a celebrity point of view. Pregnancy is sacred yes but if you want to flaunt your "baby bump" please do.


Announcing to the world that you are expecting a child is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong if the world rejoices at the birth of your child.
Comprehension issues? Where did she say it was a bad thing?
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by duni04(m): 6:02pm On Aug 14, 2016
I think this girl has the same level of rudeness and sassiness as Genevieve Nnaji. I think it's even typical with IBO gals that have achieved a small level of success. They suddenly feel the world revolves around them. Thats how she was calling a grown matured man her "boy". She suddenly wants the whole world to view pregnancy the way she views it, any contrary view is "irritating".
Rubbish!

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by mranswer: 6:05pm On Aug 14, 2016
I find her very irritating

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by willibounce1(m): 6:06pm On Aug 14, 2016
Lol.. some women just need to cool down and stop all this baby shower and bump none sense. What if you give birth and God forbid you lose the baby.

Let ur pregnancy be your business. Don't post pictures everywhere looking for attention. When you give birth, you can now throw the biggest party and take all the pictures in the world.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by john650(m): 6:11pm On Aug 14, 2016
Justeenaleo:
She must not like everything. If having a pregnancy shoot makes you happy while pregnant please go ahead. She is talking from a celebrity point of view. Pregnancy is sacred yes but if you want to flaunt your "baby bump" please do.


Announcing to the world that you are expecting a child is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong if the world rejoices at the birth of your child.
Really? But when you ask a Nigerian woman who has been flaunting her so called "baby bump" when she is due, she cringes and frowns on the question as if you have mystical powers to terminate the pregnancy. I had one girl at the bank tell me that's not a question I should ask her in this clime. She said it is un-African. I call it confusion of the highest order. When she had the baby, I never said a word to her.They can't decide if to go with the western culture or the African one.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Jakumo(m): 6:16pm On Aug 14, 2016
Eons of evolution have programmed men to be attracted to women with flat midriffs and full bosoms, BUT that attraction is replaced with a deep-seated, innate and subconscious repulsion, when the women become VISIBLY pregnant, since that disproportionately huge middle and those droopy bosoms indicate that the woman has become a MOTHER, and has thus ceased to be a potential sex partner. This is not an opinion, but a cruel fact of biological reality, which perhaps serves the purpose of INSTINCTIVELY discouraging men from mounting women who are already pregnant.

This is the precise reason why large numbers of married men proceed to cheat with younger SINGLE women, THE INSTANT their wives begin to grow in size due to pregnancy. Those men lose their interest in their pregnant wives almost as suddenly as if a switch was flipped, and find themselves HOPELESSLY attracted to women who are younger, with flatter midriffs, and preferably who have NEVER been pregnant.

Personally, I find the current fad of women showing off their pregnancies to be utterly revolting, as well as a major turn-off. While I do realize that pregnancy is where we all came from, and is also the means by which future generations are created, I have ZERO interest in seeing that condition CELEBRATED and ADVERTISED as though being pregnant is the result of some unique and phenomenal talent that needs to be admired by all the lesser mortals who find themselves literally bombarded by online photographs of huge guts with such depressing regularity these days.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by castrokins(m): 6:34pm On Aug 14, 2016
I Love Chimamanda Adichie
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:36pm On Aug 14, 2016
willibounce1:
Lol.. some women just need to cool down and stop all this baby shower and bump none sense. What if you give birth and God forbid you lose the baby.

Let ur pregnancy be your business. Don't post pictures everywhere looking for attention. When you give birth, you can now throw the biggest party and take all the pictures in the world.
Some people didn't do it and they lost the baby.
It doesn't reduce the pain/hurt...what will be, will be.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Ask4Info: 6:38pm On Aug 14, 2016
DorisK:
That's actually her cup of tea. how discreet she wants her lifestyle is up to her, how other celeb/women do theirs is their bizness. I don't know any pregnant woman that hid all thru her pregnancy. don't they go to church, market or other events or didn't other people see her during her "discreet" pregnancy? Remember Muslims and Arabians still cover their necks and legs....but we here we expose them. Nawa o

Come off it. How old are you and are you even educated?

Do you know what a baby bump is? Do they expose their bare stomach in the market, church and everywhere else?

Small children think they have opinions when adults are talking.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Shortyy(f): 6:38pm On Aug 14, 2016
Kachisbarbie:
I take exception to that word 'irritating', too strong a word to use on a fellow humans' actions/choices.

Our mothers didn't do this, didn't do that...helloooo
Our mothers didn't fix Brazilian and Peruvian hair. Just go back to stone age already.

I am all for doing what makes you happy. Only a pregnant woman knows what makes her happy and I will gladly support my friend and even make her up if she decides to have a pregnancy photo-shoot.

If her problem is the almost unclad pictures they take, I might agree with her, otherwise_ it isn't her business or mine.
When some celebs hide/deny their pregnancies, you lots will still be the one to say 'pregnancy is a good news, why hide it?' . There is no pleasing humans, so don't even tryyyy!
Hello, you do know that this is Chimamanda's "own"mopinion on exposing baby bump right? so please don't take it personal. And PS, she keeps her natural hair.
*Opinion rather

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:44pm On Aug 14, 2016
Shortyy:

Hello, you do know that this is Chimamanda's "own" opiniom on exposing baby bump right? so please don't take it personal. And PS, she keeps her natural hair.
Madam, did you read to understand?
Did I say the Brazilian/Peruvian example was referring to Chimamanda?
Did you see the part I agreed on the bare bump pics or you just want to exercise your quoting right? smiley
What is your definition of taking things personal? Her opinion, my opinion, your opinion... I guess, that's all.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:46pm On Aug 14, 2016
Igbofirstlady:



http://punchng.com/find-baby-bump-irritating-chimamanda/

At a time when it has become a trend for celebrities to flaunt their pregnancies online, award-winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie, has said that pregnancy is a sacred state that a woman ought to be discreet about.

I wonder where she got this crap from. I don't know why the media seek her views on anything other than her work. Just cos she can write doesn't make her a specialist in any other field.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by naijacentric(m): 6:47pm On Aug 14, 2016
I love her she doesnot have copy copy syndrome
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by shehuolayinka(m): 6:48pm On Aug 14, 2016
I totally agree with her
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Shortyy(f): 6:48pm On Aug 14, 2016
Kachisbarbie:

Madam, did you read to understand?
Did I say the Brazilian/Peruvian example was referring to Chimamanda?
Did you see the part I agreed on the bare bump pics or you just want to exercise your quoting right? smiley
What is your definition of taking things personal? Her opinion, my opinion, your opinion... I guess, that's all.
well you made it seem like the write up hurt you. Anyways, ta ta.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:49pm On Aug 14, 2016
This noisemaker again. Please focus more on your career and writing more books angry
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by LastSurvivor: 6:53pm On Aug 14, 2016
Justeenaleo:
She must not like everything. If having a pregnancy shoot makes you happy while pregnant please go ahead. She is talking from a celebrity point of view. Pregnancy is sacred yes but if you want to flaunt your "baby bump" please do.


Announcing to the world that you are expecting a child is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong if the world rejoices at the birth of your child.

Do you know that a comment like this can stop "my type" from marrying you even a day to the wedding..
Poor brain..

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by mastermaestro(m): 6:54pm On Aug 14, 2016
Globalhustler:
Exactly, she's very correct. That idea n those following it are irritating. I don't blame dem sha, women are becoming more shameless as d world approaches its end. Very soon na d baby making( fvcking pics) dem go Dey upload n celebrate.

You have summarised it concisely. It's a SHAMELESS generation.
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:56pm On Aug 14, 2016
Lol, she has a sense of home but her husband's whiter than snow grin
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Nobody: 6:59pm On Aug 14, 2016
Shortyy:

well you made it seem like the write up hurt you. Anyways, ta ta.
Nah. Not at all... let's just allow people live their lives, as long as it doesn't hurt or affect the economy...lols.
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Agabs7(m): 6:59pm On Aug 14, 2016
Justeenaleo:
She must not like everything. If having a pregnancy shoot makes you happy while pregnant please go ahead. She is talking from a celebrity point of view. Pregnancy is sacred yes but if you want to flaunt your "baby bump" please do.


Announcing to the world that you are expecting a child is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong if the world rejoices at the birth of your child.
Another reasonable view.
But I go with Chimamanda's though. A woman by her very nature should epitomize noblehood. She does'nt really fit into public life nor does she fill comfortable with public glare. When in public related venture, it is her utmost duty to present herself as gracefully as possible. In so doing, she evokes admiration, respect and 'silently educates the man'. Modern fashion trends and related practices deceptively bearing in its brow the name ”progress” are just the hallmark of a stupidity, shamelessness and a general decline of the female folk, and sadly, man is helplessly dragged along. Lucifer in his knowledge knew that what he only needed to do was to conquer woman. The rest was history. That aside sha.
There are so many things our woman still need to understand. It is only then there will come to an appreciation of Adichie as a shining example.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by gargoyle: 7:10pm On Aug 14, 2016
Good day everyone

This is just my personal observation concerning youthful Nigerian ladies of this generation.

Chimamanda just shared her own opinion on a matter and most of them are crying foul.

If it was an educational cum sociopolitical opinion by the said writer, most of our Nigerian ladies would not have gravitated towards it because they are grossly unintelligent and concerned with only vain things that don't build up a society in any way.

And they are clamoring for a female president. Going by comments I've observed on this post, I fear for the day that time comes.

That isn't to say that there aren't some intelligent female Nigerian youths.

I am yet to see a critical analysis of her opinion on going public with baby bumps. All I've been seeing are "its her opinion, bla bla bla..."

Look at female youths in other climes excelling in sports, science, medicine, business, society and governance etc.

Yet, the only thing these lot here in Nigeria know is to seek attention on social media with unbecoming displays.

I know I may be attacked but the truth must be written

Good day folks.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by passyhansome(m): 7:12pm On Aug 14, 2016
LecciGucci:
this gal is always on point.. beauty and brains.
she cant put word wrong.
wish im within her age bracket though i would have gone for her

igbo gals are really fine.
im gonna marry me one... else a non nigerian

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by marxwellerr247(m): 7:53pm On Aug 14, 2016
Some sef 4 here na slippass them dey carry flash us 4 here, say na bresss !

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by Lordave: 7:57pm On Aug 14, 2016
DorisK:


I am not with you. cos you can't dictate what others should do just cos Wat they are doing irritates u. Shes talking about olden days, who's still doing other things that olden days people did. I can't do it openly, personally but for those doing it, it's their life and their choice
I'm not dictating for anybody, I and Chimamanda are stating our opinion. We are not saying you should stop it(though we will be happy if you do), just that it irritates us.

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Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by kossyablaze(m): 8:45pm On Aug 14, 2016
Smellymouth:
I totally agree with her.. cool
with no meme undecided I don't believe u agree with her
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by LecciGucci: 8:45pm On Aug 14, 2016
[quote author=passyhansome post=48481781][/quote]0 LMAO
Re: Chimamanda Adichie: "I Find This ‘baby Bump’ Thing Very Irritating" by solidman59(m): 8:46pm On Aug 14, 2016
Thank God for ladies like this who still have their morality intact. Sex crazed ashewo everywhere. If my woman tries it, that's it. To think that some even go naked to show off

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