I’ll cover Duchess Kate-at-Downton Abbey in a separate post, if and when we get those photos. For now, this is just a catch-up post and I’m using some additional photos of Kate in Margate yesterday, wearing the repeat Hobbs coat (which I still like). Incidentally, I kept saying that this week’s events would probably be her final public outings until the baby comes, but I was wrong: Kate and William are going to make their annual outing on St. Patrick’s Day to visit the Irish Guards. Will she wear the same green coatdress that she wore in 2012 & 2013? Or will she repeat the 2014 green coatdress? So many questions.
As for the catch-up info… Kate didn’t make any official public statements during her Margate outing, but she did talk to some of the peasants and the peasants dutifully relayed Kate’s words to the press. When told that she looked “very trim,” Kate admitted to one woman, “I sometimes forget I’m pregnant.” She also said Prince George has been “running around quite a lot,” and made it sound like George is still a handful (good). Apparently, the peasants called her “Princess Catherine” a lot, which sounds completely made up by People Magazine, considering they’re one of the few publications to insist on calling her “Princess Catherine.”
Meanwhile, this week’s Enquirer claims that Kate has absolutely had it with William’s bald dome. A source claims:
“Kate thinks he looks old before his time. She says that William either needs to get a hair transplant or shave his head completely, so that he looks younger and more dynamic…She’s told poor William that he needs a complete style makeover… [but] As the future king, he has no option but to grow old gracefully.”
I don’t know… Kate famously made a very public crack about William’s thinning hair, and (just my opinion) it’s a very sensitive subject for him. We know he’s a mercurial, fussy baby on a normal day, so I can imagine he’s an utter bastard if someone dares to comment on his baldness. Do you think Kate would tell him to shave his dome? I don’t even know if that would make a huge difference with his look though.
As for Kate’s due date… the palace seems to be indicating that it will be late April. I guess no one wants a repeat of The Great Kate Wait of 2013.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
That’s off considering her first pregnancy was sooo horrible, with the morning sickness. Generally if you have it bad once, it’s with all your pregnancies.
My second pregnancy was super planned and it wasn’t until I was like 29 weeks that I vould consistently remember I was pregnant. But my pregnancies were incredibly easy- a dream
Not true. You could have an absolute dream pregnancy once and then a nightmare of a one next time. All pregnancies are different.
Right. Because someone had this or that during their pregnancy it’s not what happens to others. It’s unique to them.
This is so not true. All 3 of my pregnancies were completely different from each other. First one was…okay, second was miserable from day one to the very end (my delivery was completely traumatic, too) and my third was awespome. There were many days when I really did forget I was pregnant–until I got huge, anyway. 🙂 Many women I’ve known tended to be more sick with one gender than the other (often more sick with girls but not always).
lol. I don’t know how you could not feel pregnant! I am 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby, and while I have had almost no symptoms, my baby is there and growing and I know it. She is crazy thin though. Unusual for a second baby, but I’ve heard chasing a toddler will keep you trimmer!
I love that George seems to be a handful though. Maybe this will be a sweet calm girl. 🙂
If she’s late April or May she will be sweet and calm- Taurus!
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LOL! Every taurus I know is very sensual, loves the good life, and is every bit the bull! If anything, this little one may give George a run for his money!
Ha! I’m a Taurus…. I was a calm baby. But my husband is also a Taurus and he was high needs. I guess it just depends!
I’m also a Taurus born April 29 so already have the royal wedding coinciding with my birthday. If this baby is born the same day, it would be such an honor indeed (snicker).
Ha! My Taurus girl was *anything and everything* BUT calm! Lol. She’ll be 20 in May and is STILL anything but calm!!
I know what she means. I’m pregnant with my 3rd and sometimes I forget because I’m busy taking care of two other children. It’s not like when you’re pregnant with your first and everything is new and that’s all you think about. I felt the same way when I was pregnant with my second. It went by so much faster then the first because I wasn’t dwelling on it all of the time.
I wish I stayed this thin during my pregnancy. I was more of a Kim than Kate in size. My 2nd pregancy was also much easier than my first. But I swear labor was actually scarier for me with my 2nd because I knew what to expect. So with the good came the bad. Atleast for myself.
On a side note – I have noticed something as well as many of my friends. I’m 34 and many women and men my age or younger are graying and balding so much sooner than our parents or their parents ever did. I mean it’s starting in the 20s. Of course I know genetics plays a part but it just seems younger and younger. Has anyone else noticed this trend?! It would seem William is balding at a pretty fast rate for his age.
Not really.
I think we focus on things because we’re looking for them and not realising it.
William was always going to bald early. Those damn royal genes ruin everything.
Yep. Just like in other animals, the inbreeding shows. The more diverse the genes, the more robust and healthy the offspring. George, however, seems to be taking after Grandpa Middleton a bit. Maybe he’ll have Michael’s thick head of hair?
Hope
I think as far as genetics go George in theory should have a full head of hair during his lifetime. Though you can’t count out the royal genes. They’re so sneaky and tough. George will be handsome and a heartbreaker up until his mid to late 20’s possibly.
Actually, it could be from all the toxins in the environment. We’re all being surreptitiously poisoned.
William was so cute in his early 20’s. Now he looks like he’s morphing into a little old round shouldered man with his fur lined potty hair and ugly blue clothes. I don’t think he cares one bit about his thinning hair or frumpy appearance. It is true a hair transplant would be a transformation back to somewhat cute at least but he would get an incredible amount of flak from the public for being vain and shallow if he went that route. So he’s likely going to stay the way he is.
Azurea, I try not to think about the amount of toxins we ingest but it’s so true that we’re slowly poisoning ourselves. I don’t know that we’ll ever learn until it’s too late. 🙁
Yes, I’ve noticed this, too. I’m shocked by how many late-20’s women I know who dye their hair because they are already going gray! It seems to me that going gray early and losing hair is a sign of poor health, and it makes me wonder if there are other more subtle aging problems going on that aren’t as noticeable until much later.
Who knows if it is nutritional deficiencies, or lots of stress, or toxins in the environment, or some horrible combination of all of the above, but whatever it is I think we should all be concerned by it.
My mother started going grey in her twenties and the same is happening to me and my doctor has said I am perfectly healthy. So there ya go.
I’m 62 and I don’t dye my hair – I have a smattering of grey but not much – neither of my parents had much grey up until their eighties so I guess it’s genetic.
What OP and I were both noticing is how much younger people are going gray/losing their hair these days than compared with older generations. That change obviously can’t be down to genetics. It has to be something in the environment.
Both your examples are cases of genetics at work.
Soporificat
Grays happen for lots of reasons. Because you gray early does not mean your have health issues at all.
And sometimes it can be entirely genetics.
You’re just focusing on it and seeing a pattern where there is only coincidence. Happens very often.
Also, people have been graying early for a long time. It just isn’t remembered or noted like it is lately. Or being discussed as openly. Not so long ago it was something that was to be ashamed of and was not attractive. Now people are embracing it.
My hair became about 40% grey after my first pregnancy. I have to dye it all the time now. I think it was the hormonal changes.
J-Lo has said she’s been grey for a really long time too. If you ever see a picture of her without her roots done, she has tons of grey. And she seems super healthy.
I do think there is a bit of nutrient deficiency in some people – others, genetics. Thyroid has a huge effect on hair texture and to a lesser degree colour. Once I started taking selenium, my grey hairs went away – there were still a few, but just a few. I am late 30’s.
It isn’t from hard work!
My mom went gray in her early twenties and had to start dying her hair pretty early. On my dad’s side of the family, my dad, though bald on the top of his head still has a fair amount of brown in his hair. The gray is mostly in his beard. I have a few stray gray hairs here and there at 27–will probably have to start dying it in a few years (and I was hoping my dad’s genes would prevail! Oh well). I had a friend who started going gray in college–by the end of it she had so many stray gray hairs we called them her “unicorn hairs.” Some people go gray super early and are healthy and eat well. I don’t think there’s really a way to predict it.
Like I have terrible eyesight and have been wearing glasses since elementary school. Sister has perfect eyesight, parents wear glasses for reading and to see up close but don’t need to wear them all the time. I have to wear them 100% of the time. Who knows where my terrible vision came from.
I don’t know how many identical blue suits William has, but he needs to change it up, STAT! Tweeds, green, gray, khaki, anything! And don’t even talk to me about those velvet slippers he wears to formal functions.
My second pregnancy was far easier than my first… and my first was pretty smooth. But my second pregnancy wasn’t the only thing happening in my life, like my first pregnancy was. I just didn’t focus on the “being pregnant” part nearly as much as I did with the first.
So true. It’s freaky and alien-like the first time–you scrutinize every little thing. Of course, the second time you’re busy taking care of another child too, and have less time to think about it.
very true. i was pregnant the first time along with Kate with George and I’m pregnant again with my second (purely coincidence, believe me, I’m not following Kate’s gestational schedule!) and I’m so much busier this time around. My boy toddler keeps me very busy and it’s been harder for me to put on weight since I move constantly. So i completely understand forgetting being pregnant because you’re just too busy taking care of the first one to even think about anything else!
THIS! The dr. asks me about symptoms and I literally have to think. Um… hmm. Tired? Yes, but I’ve been tired because my son still doesn’t sleep through the night. Nauseous? Maybe… I don’t have time to think about it. Tender boobs? Still nursing, so I haven’t noticed. I feel like after your body goes totally whacko the first time, it just stays “off” and you don’t notice as much the second time. But there is a belly!
Jeanne I’m totally on Kate’s schedule too. My first is a few months younger than George. My second will be a few months younger than their second. Not on purpose!
haha, that’s me exactly. the doc asked me if the baby is kicking and i’m like, “ahh, i guess so.” i remember actually taking the time to count kicks with the first one. oh what i would do with that extra time now!
I wish I could agree with you. Second pregnancy with a high needs toddler son here. I am still very busy every day looking after him, but I had far worse morning sickness with this girl than I ever did with him. I still can’t be too far from a toilet. No chance of me forgetting my condition, despite being much slimmer (and less bump) than last time.
i wish they would leave him alone about his hair.
who fu*king cares what his hair looks like? Honestly? Will it change what kind of leader he is (if he becomes one)…probably not. And to be honest, good looks aren’t really what the royal family is known for so why harp on it?
he’ll be bashed for doing something to it, he’ll be bashed for keeping his natural hairline and hair growth pattern.
sweet jesus, we’re not ‘allowed’ to ask female celebrities ‘who are you wearing’ or say ‘she looks so old in that photo’ but it’s totally cool to poke fun at this guy for his hair and call him a baby when somebody brings it up?
lame.
Thank you, Amanda. My sweet, handsome husband has a bald spot, and I’m so sick of people implying that going bald makes you unattractive and some sort of loser. On commercials, if the guy is supposed to be your nightmare date, they make him balding. If he’s supposed to be a sad loser who lives with his mother, he’s balding. It’s not as if my husband chose to lose his hair, or can do anything about it, except hair plugs, which would be ridiculous. Why should balding men be ridiculed and yeah, I’ll say it, shamed for something they can’t control? I’m so sick of it. I feel so bad for all of the messages he gets from the media and society telling him he’s not attractive, because he’s the most beautiful person I know.
Aww, GNAT ur husband seems like a lucky guy. I like bald men – something oddly sexy about them but maybe that’s just me.
As I’ve said many times around here, my boyfriend shaves his head and sports a five o’clock shadow. He’s the first and only bald guy I’ve ever dated and I’ve grown to LOVE the bald. I love the peach fuzz feel and I just find it so….sexy and manly.
In the past I always associated baldness with a “mean” look-like the tough-guy-with-the-shaved-head-thing, which is hilarious because my boyfriend is the sweetest, most benign, chill guy.
Anyway, dating him has made me ADORE bald.
@GNAT-Your man is probably a bit insecure about going bald but that’s why you should really encourage him to shave it all off—but only if he’s comfortable with being totally bald, of course. My guy said that shaving his head was the most liberating thing ever. Anyway, I’m sure your dude is a hottie and as amazing as you are, whether balding or bald 🙂
Cheers to all my bald men-loving celebitches!
Kitten, your guy sounds amazing and I’m so happy he’s making you happy! Actually, my husband couldn’t care less, I think. I just get annoyed for both of us at all of the negativity surrounding baldness. It doesn’t seem to bother him.
My husband shaves his head( bald on top) and I think he looks sexy as hell. I’m sure he’d rather have a full head of hair, but genetics won that battle.
My best friend is 33 & has been losing his hair for years. I don’t pay attention , I just don’t notice it. But he’s very self conscience about it. I read in a magazine for a woman it’s like comparing it to waking up each morning & your boobs keep getting smaller. For a lot of guys it’s a very touchy subject.
Thank you.My fist husband was almost bald in his early-mid 20’s. He also had white blond hair and kept it very short. My now husband started thinning in his 50’s and now almost 20 years later you can see his scalp. He also keeps it short. Who cares if they are balding or thinning. It’s what’s inside that counts. Both my ex and now husbands are wonderful, attractive highly talented and intelligent men.
Give me my balding huz who treats me with consideration and respect and still tells me I’m hot — two babies, greying hair, excess body fat and nearly 10 years married. Those kind of men aren’t made every day.
How does someone forget they’re pregnant? I could never forget the tiredness with #2 (chasing after #1) and the difficulty getting around once my belly popped about 18 weeks in. Hated pregnancy — love having kids though.
I would think the constant pressure on her bladder would be a steady reminder she is with child, but I don’t know because I’ve never been pregnant.
TOMia
I work with pregnant ladies in both my jobs and they do forget they’re pregnant. They wake up forgetting their belly. They go to twist or tie a shoe and realize they can’t reach. It happens.
It doesn’t mean you carry on with your day not realizing your pregnant. You just have moments where you forget.
The conspiracy theorists are already running with this as a sign Kate is not carrying her child…. This was expected.
I think people don’t realize how sensitive men are about hair. My totally non-vain friend from growing up is really sensitive about being bald (he started going bald in his twenties). It would be akin to the press or boyfriends making fun of a woman for having small boobs I think.
If I hadn’t had terrible morning sickness, I wouldn’t have felt pregnant either. I’m tall and barely showed even by the end. Physically I didnt have any issues other than 16 weeks of miserable nausea.
He should’ve done something with this hair when it was just starting to thin, so no one would’ve noticed. I don’t think he’ll be able to pull off bald unless he grows a beard (or works out more and bulks up a bit) and even then…
Oh yeah, a beard might work. I saw a picture of a younger Charles with a beard once — he looked much cooler with it.
William looks good with a beard. Maybe one day he’ll try the short-hair, Prince Michael of Kent look.
I felt like my hips were cracking in half with my second pregnancy. But it turns out that baby was 2 pounds heavier than my first.
I wish I looked like Kate while I was pregnant. I bet it’s so easy getting back into her old clothes. It looks like she’s never left most of them. It’s been a year and I have finally donated all mine.
People makes their articles really tough to believe.
There are plenty of handsome balding men out there. For me it’s less his hairline and more his personality that hurts his attractiveness.
I don’t think baldness makes William unattractive — it’s his behavior that does.
+1000. Same with his wife.
Exactly.
I think his physique is attractive, but yeah, his personality kind of affects how his face looks. Although I did think he looked way better with hair anyway. But when you look at his actual body he fits a certain conventional standard of attractiveness (i.e tall, strong arms, flat chest, good abs, etc.. His hair is where it all goes wrong…) Like Kate, he’s so boring though….
vava
True. And Harry isn’t attractive in a physical sense, but his personality makes him hot (imo).
They both have a physicality I like. On the wedding day, they were both in uniform & walked into that cathedral like cowboys–must be all that polo playing.
You’ve just touched on why Harry’s my favorite… his personality and infectious smile makes him attractive to me. Our modern Prince Hal, cute li’l scamp.
You missed the best comment when she asked an artist not about his work, but about his beard because her brother James is growing one. *crickets* She’s an art major and couldn’t find one thing to discuss with this man other than the length and care of his facial beard.
I would have asked that guy about his beard too – it was an EPIC beard.
Did she ask any questions about the art or methods/inspirations/process?
If she did and added in small talk like beards that would be fine. If she only engaged in small talk at an art exhibit that was not art related i’ll side eye that.
The exhibit is about self-portraits. It features a Van Dyck and a lot of contemporary art – one artist has made a portrait of himself as a drowned man, apparently quite realistic, which startled Kate. That particular art work sounds like a prime example of what Freud called The Uncanny, something familiar that suddenly has turned strange. It is a theme that has been explored in art since the late 19th century. The Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff’s empty cityscapes of Brughes is a great example of this.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fernand_Khnopff#/media/File:Khnopff-verlorene-stad.jpg
The DM has a lot of pics. However, the weirdest thing is that they report a conversation that Kate had with a local artist that, frankly, make her appear rather odd and somewhat rude though I guess it simply might be due to poor conversation skill:
“The Duchess also chatted at length to artist Gavin Turk, who was dressed in an eye-catching orange suit and happily discussed his self portrait entitled ‘A portrait of myself I’ll never really see.’
Kate, however, seemed more interested in his beard – not just because the picture, taken in 1997, showed him hairless, but also because her own brother, James Middleton, has grown one.
Mr Turk, a local artist, said afterwards: ‘She immediately asked me about her beard and said that she was a bit concerned as her brother was growing one. She asked me how much care I needed to take of it and whether I had to oil it. She seemed quite fascinated.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2989352/Kate-gets-arty-Duchess-Cambridge-gives-Dalmatian-Hobbs-coat-second-outing-meets-artists-Margate.html
Thanks, ArtHistorian!
AH
Spooky picture. I do enjoy art like that though. My mind just wanders off into that world making it as I go. Love it!
My husband is a natural artist. When we were living bare bones in our shoe box apartment I would describe something and he would draw. Such fun to do, but also to see the interpretation.
I think Kate has horrid conversational skills supported by history, family, former coworkers, and even pro kate stories. This only seems to add credence to her not socializing with people. Even at those secret meetings like the DM’s sunflower pointed out. She says next to nothing. Social skills need to be used.
Still, she’s an art major at an art exhibit that she is to support and promote. And she speaks about a man’s physical appearance regarding grooming for her brother.
I don’t think she meant to be rude. I also don’t think she really knew why she was there and the point of the art. Saw some of the art there. Amazing and disturbing, but insightful stuff.
Personally, I do think commenting on other people’s grooming habits IS rude. It is also a potential minefield of perceived insult. I can only shake my head when she does small-talk. I don’t think that she’s stupid but I do think that she has very poor social skills.
FLORC,
The Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi also did a series of eerie, empty cityscapes of Copenhagen. However, he wasn’t avoved symbolist like Khnopff. Michael Palin did a very good documentary on Hammershøi for the BBC some years ago. I can recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQmS8KJeUo
http://www.microformats.dk/images/hammershoi.jpg
http://www.kunstnyt.dk/ham-237a.jpg
http://a.bimg.dk/node-images/506/620x/506115-hj-af-hammershi–.jpg
AH
Really loving the links.
The type of art that holds my interest the best are these types of paintings. Not really eerie in nature. A larger scene that could be something we see in passing often, but never notice the lines or faces. To see it in a still and read deeper into what things could have been or purpose behind emotions shown. It’s beautiful.
My parents had a giant painting in their room. Watercolors of a busy plaza. Women carrying flowers, pushing carts, children, windows open, cafes, I loved looking at it. Wish I knew how to find it.
FLORC,
Hammershøi is mostly known for his limited palette (lots of greys, blacks and whites) – and his interiors with a woman whose back is to the audience. He often used his wife as a model and the interiors of his appartment as setting. He was a master when it came to the use of light.
A friend of mine has been in his appartment, and he says that it still almost looks the same as in the paintings – the light is the same too. He says that you almost expect to walk into a room and see the back of a black-clad woman.
https://oldiesskriftrulle.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/hammershc3b8i1.jpg
http://ordrupgaard.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/6-Vilhelm-Hammersh%C3%B8i.-Solstr%C3%A5ler-eller-Solskin.-1900.-Inv.nr_.-373.-Fotograf-Pernille-Klemp-3.jpg
http://ordrupgaard.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/6-Vilhelm-Hammersh%C3%B8i-Interi%C3%B8r-med-klaver-Strandgade-30-1901-18WH.jpg
There are lot of similarities between Hammershøi and the art of the Dutch 17th century painter Vermeer. In fact, many Danish artists of the 19th century sought inspiration in 17th century Dutch art.
Kate was likely discussing the beard because Turk is featured in a current art exhibit in Britain about people with beards, he has done works that feature facial hair, he is working on an upcoming art exhibit that features people that recently shaved off their beards (he is planning to do so) and has been interviewed multiple times about the beard.
The beard is currently an important aspect of his art. Seems a little odd to me but Kate obviously knew that it was and focused in on it.
It was also a self portrait of the artist, in which he does not have a beard. I can’t imagine not commenting on how different he looks now versus in the picture. Its not as though he had taken a photograph of something completely unrelated and all she would talk about what his beard. By looking so strikingly different the artist makes it a topic of conversation.
I didn’t realize that he was also being featured in another exhibit about people with beards as well.
Or like someone said elsewhere, she made similar ridiculous comments to Tom Hiddleston instead of talking about his work or aspects of the film Warhorse.
“I met the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton) afterwards and she said: ‘Oh, I know who you are now! Although it’s very strange – now you have got facial hair. Some of the people who had facial hair in the film don’t have facial hair now.’ I guess she doesn’t hang around actors very much.” – Tom Hiddleston
The artist has a beard now and doesn’t have one in his work. She wasn’t asking about why he has a beard or how that figures in his work. She was asking grooming questions, which have nothing to do with artwork.
Mac
Really? Than why did she gloss over the beard only for tips for her brother? Why was nothing about his current art being talked about? This is interesting, but your comment seems like an after thought sort of defense.
I think you might be justifying an action that had no deeper meaning behind it. If this was even somewhat true the DM would have jumped on it as well as KP twitter.
Where it all broke down for me was she wanted to know about maintenance and grooming tips. Not about the art or other exhibits. All info for James for his beard.
I think they could use you at her pr office. Your comment was good. And I mean that with true sincerity.
“crickets”, LOL! That conversation must have been awkward. What can one say? “Yes, duchess, I have a beard. Yes, I must comb and oil my beard daily. Now, may I draw your attention to my work…”. Duchess stares, more *crickets*. Handler firmly guides her to the next peasant. But, I’d love to know what she had to say about that body lying on the floor.
According to the DM: “Oh my goodness, what is that?”
HA! Bless her heart!
‘According to the DM: “Oh my goodness, what is that?” ‘ Way to insult the artist, KM. Remember when Sarah Ferguson got in trouble for her comments about a piece of artwork that included hundreds of Barbie dolls holding up a giant cube? They need to cultivate “That is interesting. Please explain your inspiration” kind of language.
To be fair, I would probably have reacted the same way initially – and I bet that was exactly the shock response that the artist had calculated with in this art work.
I once had a similar reaction when I came upon a life-size, painted and dressed wooden figure at the Cafe Central in Vienna. It was a figure of an author who was a fixture at the cafe in the late 19th century. Initially, I had registered the figure as a customer at a quick glance and when I looked closer I discovered it was a mannequin – it was quite a shoking experience – for a split second.
As I wrote above, this particular art work plays upon the uncanny: that is, the familiar that has suddenly become strange and unfamiliar. It is something that is experienced as deeply disturbing. Life-size figures that are too realistic, waxworks, etc. all play upon the familiar made strange and they evoke reactions of both surprise, fascination and revulsion – often because something like that initially is misidentified – like a life-size figure so realistically made that you initially mistake it for a person. Several artists have played around with this concept.
I would love to have had the opportunity for a chat with the artist – could probably have had it going on for 20-30 minutes.
The Uncanny – a quick definition:
“The uncanny (German: Das Unheimliche, “the opposite of what is familiar”) is a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar that is experienced as being peculiar. The psychological concept of the uncanny as something that is strangely familiar, rather than just mysterious, was perhaps first fixed by Sigmund Freud in his essay Das Unheimliche.
Because the uncanny is familiar, yet incongruous, it has been seen as creating cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject, due to the paradoxical nature of being simultaneously attracted to yet repulsed by an object. This cognitive dissonance often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than rationalize, as in the uncanny valley effect.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny
I agree ArtHIstorian – one doesn’t create a piece of work such as that without wanting to evoke a shock response! That is the point!
This is going to sounds so vain, but I don’t like bald men, especially men who shave their heads who aren’t going bald. I find they generally tend to be aggressive and abusive towards women (not all obviously) but a lot I have met have. I also would prefer a salt and pepper look to a bald look (just my preference).
And that’s fine. We all have our preferences. My pet peeve. Comb overs. I’m a fan of aging gracefully. Not concealing.
Combovers are the absolute worst and I don’t get the logic either. Who do they think they’re fooling? I hate them so much I’d prefer a spray-on cover up over a combover.
And do you find blonde women to be generally dumb? Not all obviously but a lot that you have met?
Why is there something wrong with admitting you prefer a certain physical look to another? Let’s face it, we all have physical preferences. Some like bald, some like hair. Whatever. To each her own!
Because others will criticize you for not being more accepting and attack your bias that you’ve shared. Thing is we all have a bias with looks. We aren’t blind. Some like hair color, some like whiter teeth. Some like just having teeth!
If you don’t find a person attractive because of a pre existing biad like… racism then that is bad. If you just don’t like how Brown hair looks and prefer blondes or red heads that’s nothing wrong with that. Some people will jump on a chance to judge others openly for judging privatey regarding private matters.
Bleh. This is getting stupid. Let’s stop shaming people for being honest. That’s really unfair.
There is NOTHING wrong with admitting that there are certain physical qualities that you don’t find particularly attractive on someone.
I also think that most of us would admit that if we find a fantastic mate, we overlook the little “deal-breakers” that we reserved for potential suitors that didn’t really fulfill what we were looking for as far as personality goes.
I’ve said up-thread that for a long time I wasn’t attracted to bald men. It WAS a deal-breaker for me. Then I met an amazing guy who just happened to be bald, and everything changed.
And I think that’s how it works for most people. Love is blind, right? 😉
Although, the comb-overs…I don’t know if I could let that slide..lol..the comb-over signifies a level of denial and lack of self-acceptance that I find kind of depressing.
I don’t like people who think they know it all.
Kitten
Fair point. It really falls on personality. Some people might find they associate an unattractive personality with certain features. That’s not attacking those features as the only reason.
And it’s worth noting several comments have been removed from this thread so some things are out of context.
Maggie
Agree.
I don’t know how anyone could possibly read into my post that I was shaming or criticizing her b/c she likes men with hair. I didn’t comment on her preference. And fyi, I don’t care one way or another.
But I do care about stereotypes. I called out her stereotype that bald men are often aggressive and abusive. It is akin to claiming that blondes are generally dumb.
“I sometimes forget I”m pregnant” – but not when she’s supposed to be “working” then we are all reminded. She’s managed to drag herself to the set of Downton Abbey, one of her favourite shows – must be exhausted.
After Christmas church she told a fan that she felt big. And more recently she rather dramatically told a child how much the baby was kicking her. She’s much bigger now than at Christmas and we’re supposed to believe she can forget she’s pregnant?
This clip “Prince William and Prince Harry banter” includes Harry joking about William’s baldness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTonYASAKR0
I don’t know if William would go for Rogaine or hair transplants. He should though.
I can see why Kate would forget obvious stuff like pregnancy. Because ‘underwear.’ That’s why.
An excellent point about the undies. I’ll have to re-think what I posted just above.
I am one of the partners of a medical tourism agency and we have tens of hair transplants every month. William would need at least two sessions with about 9 months in between. I do not think he would/could go for it.
lol I get her, I’m 6 months pregnant with my 1st child right now and I sometimes forget too. I only recently started to barely grow a bump, so for the past 6 months it would sometimes completely not even cross my mind that I was pregnant bc there’s no bump to remind me when I would look down haha. Those kicks, food cravings, and back aches remind you pretty quickly though!
Great pic Kaiser. looks like Princess Catherine (that was hard to swallow) is actually thinking: off with that bald head. Bawhahahahaha
Lol. Kate is sort of funny. I like it when she throws shade at William’s hair.
I think it’s rude to comment on his hair because that’s something for which he has no control. Maybe she’d like it if someone commented on her crooked mouth!
I read this yesterday and I just couldn’t even. I’m 33 weeks with my second (so around the same time as her) – I’m due end of April – and I just thought that was ridiculous. There is never a second that I forget I am pregnant. FFS.
Right? I’m 34 weeks and there’s no way I forget I’m pregnant. This baby is all up in my ribs, head-butting my cervix, and giving me nonstop heartburn. I have 2 boys to look after, too. But at this late stage no matter how small your bump, there’s a lot going on internally that makes it tough.
Idk, my Dad was bald on top and mostly gray by the time he was in his mid 30s and everyone, my mom included told him he would look a lot younger if he shaved it. He fought and fought and finally did it a couple years ago, and he totally does look younger now.
I’d like to make a generalization about the entire British royal family. Because of the situation in the world today, the direct result of colonization, and enslavement, or even wiping out of native populations, as they claim territory, the British throne is one of the largest robber barons of all time (lovingly referred to as the Commonwealth). They didn’t keep their sights on their own peoples, but have collected taxes from all around the world. One of the interesting things about this, is that the royals are such *average joes* – and probably why the Queen has nothing to say. She can pose!! – and wear the jewelry so collected. And she is the Queen of the Snobs, at least in Britain. As a family, they can’t be keeping themselves in power. This has to be the will of lots of rich people who benefit, or have benefited, from British crime. Their past actions are against current international law – and the world sits on the problems so created from their past.
I am noticing that the young royals are not taught manners in the traditional sense – they are taught that they are better than everyone else! Every selfish whim is indulged, people are encouraged to bow and scrape in their presence. This is what turns them into a royal – not blue blood! I wonder if the princes will ever learn how to treat a lady – or with sincerity? They are isolated within themselves, authorized to have the best the world has to offer (forget anyone else), without mutual respect, or responsibility to others. They are one of the few people, that can do almost (York) anything they want. And the peasants pay. I can’t imagine why anyone thinks these folks add to the allure of Britain – other than their oddness.
I find that people here in the UK generally have love for William and Kate. When they got married, it was the hugest ordeal. There were celebrations in the streets. Everyone had the doors to their houses open as everyone stood out and celebrated and went door-to-door shaking each others hands. I only tend to find so much hatred and jealousy from the commentors on here. LOL.
MissS210 (aka Jason), it isn’t hatred and jealousy. It is valid criticism of taxpayer-funded public figures who are doing a lousy job. And the criticism is all over, you just won’t find it on The Royal Forums. Try widening the net and you’ll see there are lots of people out there – especially in the UK – who think these two are useless.