When his pregnant wife decided that she didn’t want to take elaborate maternity photos, an expecting father decided he didn’t want to miss out on the experience. The result is HILARIOUS.
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Let’s be frank—Pregnant women are beautiful, but some of the photographs we take of them are HORRIFIC. Simply HORRIFIC. And I don’t mean that it’s awful that we see their uncovered pregnant forms or anything (remember, the ladies themselves are beautiful), but, lately, in the race to create the most Pinterest-friendly maternity photos, pregnant women have been subjected to a level of photographic flourishes and clichés that would make an Anne Geddes baby cringe. Props are involved, Photoshop is unleashed, hearts are painted on bellies—cuteness is MANUFACTURED and those manufactured photos can take the most natural thing in the world and make it feel surprisingly unnatural and forced.
With that in mind, a genius father-to-be on Reddit just subverted the hell out of the staged pregnancy photo genre and has shown the world just how insane maternity photos really are. Yesterday, a Redditor with the screenname DruishPrincess69 posted a gallery of photos with the title “My wife didn’t want to take maternity pictures, so I hired a photographer and took her place…”
Here’s a sample of what he posted:
Isn’t that amazing? It’s both a crazy celebration of the male body (if pregnant tummies can be fawned after, why can’t my man-gut get a little love?) AND it’s a beautifully satirical poke in the eye to the over-the-top, artificial cuteness of overdone maternity photos. So, if you’re expecting and you’re trying to plan an overly elaborate pregnancy photo shoot, involving an abandoned cider mill and every Instagram filter imaginable, look back at DruishPrincess69’s gallery of man-ternity photos and, if you can’t top them, maybe just decide to go simple and take a few family snapshots instead.
Here are some more selections from the gallery—Enjoy!
You can find the rest of the gallery HERE.
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Credit: Images—DruishPrincess69/Reddit. Image gallery hosted on Imgur.
Aaaaand my eyes have officially burned out of my head.