Ashley Grahamis opening up aboutallthe details of her pregnancy journey.
In a recent interview withVogueas one of their four January 2020 cover stars, the model and first time mom-to-be got real about sex while pregnant.
“I feel like every relationship goes in waves of sex,” she told the magazine. “You’re like, ‘Hey, do we need to plan this?’ And now, with pregnancy, things have been really different.”
“Because there’s this huge bulge that can be sensitive if you lay on it or go into a new position,” Graham, 32, continued. “I’ve been literally asking every single one of my friends who have had babies or who’re pregnant, like, ‘What positions do you guys do?’ This has to be a normal conversation among mothers.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Graham explained how she’s been relying on female friends — includingAmy SchumerandSerena Williams, both mothers of one —throughout her pregnancy.
“There’s just this camaraderie,” the model said of being friends with other pregnant women. “It’s a secret society that I didn’t know about.”
“I was hiding my pregnancy for the first four months,” Graham continued. “I’ve always had control over my body … but I had this life inside of me saying, ‘It’s not yours anymore, it’s mine.’ And you have to just succumb. And I felt like I didn’t have anyone to talk to.”
She added: “I was gaining weight rapidly. And I felt alone. And the one piece of advice that my stylist, Jordan Foster, gave me was, ‘Make pregnant friends.’ None of my friends were in relationships, let alone pregnant. And now I have nine pregnant friends.”
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One of Graham’s new friends was Schumer, 38, who welcomed her first child,son Gene, in May and recently gave Graham a tour of her nursery.
Williams, too, says she has stayed in touch with Graham throughout her pregnancy. (The tennis star, 38, is mom to 2-year-old daughterAlexis Olympia.)
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“One of the greatest parts of this pregnancy journey has been making friends with and bonding with other moms,” she added at the time.
source: people.com
