
Ugh, guys, it happened again. No, Lindsay Lohan hasn't gone to jail, Mel Gibson hasn't gone on some half-mad rampage, and Ryan Seacrest hasn't closed a deal to produce yet another cable reality show. No, some silly starlet has gone and posed in the "Demi." You know the pose — the naked pregnant pose with the arms over the breast and the hand blocking the crotch that Demi Moore and Annie Leibovitz made famous on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991. Yes, we all know it. Now everyone needs to stop copying it forever!
The latest offender is model and Victoria Secret "angel" Alessandra Ambrosio, who posted this photo on Facebook of her in the offending position. First of all, damn, that is one tiny baby bump. Secondly, this is about the hackiest, most trite, over-used pose that a pregnant woman could think of. Just stop. As evidenced by its ability to bear children, the human body is a many-splendored thing. There must be some other configuration of body and limbs and light and diaphanous curtains that you could employ to show off the body and the bump without having to resort to something that's copied more than a bootleg version of The Hunger Games at a Chinatown DVD factory.