Kate Middleton Is too Skinny to Get Pregnant

Kate Middleton rocked the media earlier this week when she announced that she wanted to start having children with Prince William of Wales as soon as possible. Not only does this sound like a great idea for the future of "the throne," but these two beautiful people are sure to make some gorgeous children. However, bad news is in the way of this dream for Kate Middleton.

According to one of the UK's top doctors, the newlywed Kate is nearly too skinny to get pregnant. Surely this doc deserves mad respect for being one of the best in the United Kingdom, but Kate Middleton isn't too skinny to conceive at all. In fact, there are quite a few celebs who are way skinnier that managed to make babies without a hitch. Nicole Richie, Gwyneth Paltrow and too many to list immediately come to mind, actually.

This doesn't help after a pro-anorexia website used images of the lean wife of Prince William to inspire women to become anorexic to acheive her figure. Hey, that's just stupid. She obviously has a naturally waif-like figure, and if she feels healthy nobody should be giving her any grief. In fact, she should probably consider telling this doctor where he can stuff it and go about enjoying her marital bliss and practice making babies without the stress of eating too little or exercising too much.

Surely, Kate Middleton may have no problem conceiving with her size. She looks great and not at all "underweight!"

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Ishbel R. Jul 8, 2011, 5:33pm UTC

For God's sake - the woman has only been married a couple of months!
IF and when she decides to start a family, that is a private matter. Numpty doctors have no place in making these comments, and this sort of article is just adding fuel to the fire.

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aniko Jul 8, 2011, 7:13pm UTC

If she said, as the first line of this post claims, that she wanted to start having children as soon as possible, then I don't think it's inappropriate for someone (doctor or otherwise) to wonder out loud if she might be too thin to conceive. (At least, not less appropriate than any discussion of celebrities' private lives, including this post, and now my comment on it.) :)

You can't tell whether she's able to conceive just by looking at her figure--and indeed she is probably naturally thin--but I disagree with your "surely" paragraph, having myself been medically underweight to the point of amenorrhea before. (Long ago, I should say, and not at all in the context of wanting to conceive.) No one who saw me then thought there was anything wrong with me, and I think I looked less thin than Kate does in these pictures. (Of course, with me being a lot shorter, the "look" would have been different.)

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Katie M. Jul 10, 2011, 11:21pm UTC

I completely disagree that she has a naturally "waif-like figure". If you look back to older photos of her, she is nowhere near as thin as she is now, and she has even lost weight since they announced their engagement in November. You can even tell from the photos above that she was at a healthier weight in the one on the left than she currently is (if you've seen any photos of her recent North American tour where she's wearing jeans, her legs are much thinner). While I can't guess her exact weight, I am certain (as a former nutritionist and kinesiologist) she would be considered underweight for her height. Also, She may not be amenorrheic (although like the poster above, I was also thin enough to become amenorrheic, and was not even close to as thin as she is), but her level of body fat is not at a healthy enough level to support a baby.

I think that if there were recent available photos of her in a bikini, she would receive the same criticism that too-thin celebrities like Nicole Ritchie, Kelly Ripa, and Leann Rimes (of late) have endured. She only escapes it because much easier to hide a skeleton-like figure in dresses that have sleeves and are not skin-tight.

I worry most that the thousands of young girls who have seen or met Kate over the past week will want to achieve the same look, because they think this is what's beautiful. Too bad they aren't aware that a figure like that is virtually unobtainable for an ordinary person, and isn't healthy.

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