Where Have All The Pregnant 'Glamour' Girls Gone?

Jennifer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:30:00 EDT

First, the good news: Glamour editor and leukemia survivor Erin Zammett Ruddy, who pens the magazine's "Life With Cancer" blog, just got her latest tests back and is reporting she has made it through her nine months of pregnancy cancer-free, sans drugs. Mazel tov! We are all very, very happy for her. But we're worried too. Because not only is Erin due any day now, the magazine's other knocked-up vagina monoblogger, Storked!'s Christine Coppa, is about to pop out a wee one as well. And if 2 out of 2 the magazine's pregnancy bloggers are no longer pregnant, what will all the Glamour-reading bump-fetishists do with their energies now? Read Suze On Style? Maybe Glamour will just hire new bloggers who are in the family way. (Perhaps they can outsource the job to poor Indian women!) Or maybe editorial assistants will clamor to see who can get knocked up "by accident" first, since, clearly, it seems like the fastest way to a promotion around there!

Storked! [Glamour]
Life With Cancer [Glamour]

When It Comes To Helping Pregnant Women, White Men Finish Dead Last

Anna — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:23:17 EDT

Glamour magazine editor/blogger Erin Zammett Ruddy is hot, sweaty, possibly hormonal, and definitely pissed. Seems that on the NYC subway this morning, not one got off his or her fat ass to give her fat ass (we kid! we kid!) a seat (she's 7 1/2-months pregnant).

It's not that I'm tired and lazy and want to sit all the time, it's that I'd rather not fall on my ass on the subway. Also, it makes me feel really uncomfortable because other standing people look at me sympathetically and I feel like the giant elephant on the train. At one point there were three young women sitting right in front of me all averting their eyes from the belly in their face.

Lame? Yes. But not entirely unexpected! We remember a few years ago when a friend — pregnant with her first child and a regular rider of public transport — told us that, contrary to what many would think, a woman was less likely to offer up her seat to another (pregnant) woman than, say, a Hispanic male.

In fact, our friend ranked Hispanic and black men as most likely to offer up their seats, followed by women in general (meaning any ethnicity) and then white men. (For whatever reason, males of other ethnicities were not included in her list). While we'd love to put up a poll about this, we're neither a pregnancy/kiddie site — we just look like one! — nor interested in following up one racially-based poll with another. So share your thoughts in the comments... and give up your damn seat the next time you see a pregnant lady. It's fucking summer, people!

No Love From The Subway [LifeWithCancer]
Related: Pregnancy And Subway Etiquette [Babble]

Jezebel: erin zammett ruddy

Where Have All The Pregnant 'Glamour' Girls Gone?

When It Comes To Helping Pregnant Women, White Men Finish Dead Last