Saab Magalona shares experience of being body-shamed while pregnant: ‘We have no choice but to gain weight’
Instead of blowing up, Saab Magalona chose to calm down and take the opportunity to educate someone on what changes the body goes through while being pregnant.
While she looked pretty in pink with the mom glow on her Instagram photo on Tuesday, the singer-blogger had a different tone when she shared that a friend of hers gave a rather unpleasant greeting when they met up.
“Ay, naging chubby ka na (Oh, you look chubby now)!” Magalona recalled her friend as saying. She then admitted that her initial impulse was to snap back, but that it took her “5mins” to calm down and tell the person, “You know, you really shouldn’t tell people — especially pregnant women — that they’ve gotten fat. It’s very mean.”
She then explained to her friend that expecting mothers like her, especially those carrying twins, do not have a choice but to gain weight, adding that because of this, she already felt guilty about it.
“I’m glad I controlled myself even with the hormones because I trust that most people don’t intend to be mean,” Magalona said.
Putting the past behind them, her friend apologized for her remark, which was uttered “with a frown and disappointing tone,” and even thanked her for educating “her about being more sensitive (of others’ feelings).”
“I hope God can give me more patience not to bite people’s heads off hehe,” Magalona ended her post.
The daughter of the late King of Filipino rap, Francis Magalona, she is expecting twins, a boy and a girl, with musician husband, Jim Bacarro. The two have been married since 2015. /ra
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