The Media as a Source of Weight Stigma for Pregnant and Postpartum Women.

Obesity
Kathryn E NippertAngela C Incollingo Rodriguez

Abstract

The media often contain weight-stigmatizing material. However, little is known about pregnant and postpartum women's experiences with media-based weight stigma. Two studies investigated weight stigma in the media from multiple perspectives. Study 1 analyzed open-response examples of weight-stigmatizing experiences coming from the media, broadly defined, from 123 pregnant and postpartum women (from a larger sample of 501). Study 2 identified online news-media articles about pregnancy and weight published during the study 1 data collection period (August to November 2017). Study 1 revealed that weight stigma was common and frequent in media, manifesting across three themes: (1) ideal appearance of pregnant bodies, (2) pressure to quickly "bounce back" after birth to a prepregnancy appearance, and (3) media praising celebrities for achieving either of the previous themes. Study 2 identified 33 articles. A content analysis revealed that women with overweight or obesity were rarely portrayed in images. Additionally, discussion of weight was often negative, focusing on adverse maternal-child health consequences. Finally, media-communicated ideals for weight and weight loss were often unrealistic and did not reference medical guidelin...Continue Reading

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Mar 18, 2021·Seminars in Reproductive Medicine·Briony Hill, Angela C Incollingo Rodriguez
Jul 22, 2021·Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·Angela C Incollingo Rodriguez, Taniya S Nagpal

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