KEEPING MUM

FOR AS LONG AS WOMEN have been having babies, society has been somewhat obsessed with pregnant bodies. In Catholicism there’s the Virgin Mary and in Greek mythology there’s Callisto (a nymph who got pregnant by Zeus, then turned into a bear as punishment, which is, frankly, a mood). According to a primitive Wikipedia search, pregnancy portraits became all the rage in the 1400s, and pregnancy has been immortalised in art by everyone from Klimt to Picasso and Frida Kahlo. Fast forward to the 1990s and we get Demi Moore, naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair. Or 30 years forward again, when we get Beyoncé’s iconic twins announcement (and the equally iconic spoof by Zoe Foster Blake) and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, in glorious black Givenchy, cradling her bump at