Pregnancy is a blessing and truly beautiful, but let's be real: There are parts of it that suck too. Pregnancy struggles seem to be universal no matter what kind of expecting mother you are. Even celebs can relate to the parts that suck. Just take Kim Kardashian, for example. She suffered from massive swollen feet and shared it for the world to know. Here are other celebs who kept it real about the not-so-pretty parts about pregnancy.
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When Salma Hayek was pregnant with daughter Valentina in 2007, she admitted that she felt "disfigured."
"I gained so much weight, I got an opportunity to see myself completely disfigured in many different ways–for a very good reason–and I don’t regret it for a second," she told Glam Belleza Latina in 2013.
Kim Kardashian learned that you can't rock sexy designer high heel shoes while pregnant with North in 2013.
"Swollen feet or a new Givenchy tattoo?" she shared. Wow!
While Ciara was pregnant with her daughter Sienna, she got real about the struggles of cool footwear.
"Truly A Balancing Game In These #Gucci Stacks & This Big Belly!" she wrote.
Carolina Sandoval got real about gaining weight while expecting Amalia.
And she's all about using fajas to bounce back. "There's a faja for every mom out there," she shared.
Chrissy Teigen shared how difficult of a process it was for her and John Legend to get pregnant.
When she announced her pregnancy to baby Luna, she wrote, "It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family."
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is a mother-of-two who keeps it real.
In her podcast in 2014, Naturally Nicole, the former Jersey Shore star explained, "It sucks. I mean it’s a beautiful thing. It’s a miracle, yes. A baby, yay. But just the whole process—it’s annoying. It’s irritating. It’s pregnancy!”
Blake Lively was flashing her baby bump in New York City while pregnant with second child, Ines.
"It should be illegal to be pregnant in New York in July," she told Jimmy Fallon last year. She's right!
In 2012, Jennifer Lopez got real about delivering Max and Emme via C-section.
"I had twins and that was recommended for me to have a C-section, and there was a part of me [that] had thought, 'I didn't get to do it the way that everybody else does,'" she said in an interview with Wonderwall in 2012.
Olivia Wilde was honest about pregnancy brain.
"Baby brain is real. I should not be permitted to operate heavy equipment, including iPhones," she tweeted in 2014.
Jessica Alba got really honest about her baby bump struggles.
"I just don’t associate being pregnant with being sexy. It's not a sex thing to me. It's a grounding and maternal thing," she told People.
