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Baring the bump: how celebrities are leading a shift in maternity fashion

There is an increasing focus on clothes worn during pregnancy that celebrate, rather than hide, stomachs

The model and activist Adwoa Aboah and the actor Sienna Miller have left their pregnant tummies bare for red carpets, photoshoots and trips to the corner shop in recent months. She added: “The rise of celebrities like Margot Robbie and Rihanna proudly showcasing their pregnant bellies has certainly influenced mainstream fashion, making it more acceptable and even on trend to highlight, rather than hide, pregnancy.” Photograph: Hollie Adams/ReutersIt is also not unusual now to see maternity dressing done bump first, leading with a naked midriff rather than wrapping it tightly in body-skimming fabrics or seeming to want to hide it with empire-line tailoring or flounce.

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