From Demi and Angelina to You and Me: Pregnancy Gets Glamorous

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"It's hip now to be pregnant," says Jill Siefert, a fashion stylist in San Francisco who recently added pregnancy styling to her business. "Everybody's doing it."

Sandra Leong, pregnant with her second child, has been affected by the closeup view of celebrity pregnancies. "They are showing that it's OK to be big and beautiful," says Leong. Now 34, she remembers the thencontroversial 1991 Vanity Fair cover on which [Demi Moore] posed nude - at seven months pregnant. "She was the icon," says Leong. "People thought, if she can bare her breasts and belly to show her body changing, why can't I?"

"Before I was pregnant I thought, you just get large and you're not as attractive," says [Kai Walter], 32. "But actually it was one of the best times of my life. I loved my pregnant body more than I could ever have imagined."

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From Demi and Angelina to You and Me: Pregnancy Gets Glamorous

NEW YORK - Like any expectant mother, Kai Walter, six months pregnant, has lots to get done before the big day. One of her most important errands: an upcoming trip to the West Coast, where she has an appointment to take off her clothes and be photographed.

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