Fabricação da gravidez célebre: um olhar para o fenômeno da gravidez idealizada

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the correlation between pregnancy and celebrity through narratives extracted from interviews and conveyed by the mass media, specifically the internet, between 2010 and 2013. There were chosen fourteen celebrities who have narrated their experience with pregnancy during this period. The main objective of this research is to understand the meanings attributed to pregnancy and maternity from the overvaluation and overexposure belly of pregnant women. The amount of information found contributed to give evidence to this phenomenon, which we named as the emergence of the famous pregnancy. The analysis of brazilian celebrities prhases about their experience of pregnancy identified specific cultural characteristics of the contemporary era. The analysis of the intersection between women's history and the history of media, including the importance of the female body in the contemporary world, form the field in which famous pregnancy was revealed coated with idealization and, to some extent, distanced from the idea of motherhood