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24 July 2013updated 26 Sep 2015 12:31pm

Kate’s bump: we get the media we deserve

As Twitter fills with disgust over a woman being "fat" less than 24 hours after giving birth, OK magazine reassures readers that Kate Middleton will not disgust them with her "bump" for long.

By Helen Lewis

So it turns out that lots of people don’t understand how pregnant women work. And other people are just sad, mean, randy or misogynistic . . .

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