That having been said, I have a new photo of Gov. Palin that I have not seen anywhere else before. It was taken as part of a photo shoot done by an Israeli filmmaker Elan Frank. I don't know exactly what day it was taken, but it was sometime around the eight of April, within ten days - two weeks of the birth.
I have some video from this shoot in early April, that I had not seen anywhere before. I will be posting this tomorrow, with some additional commentary.
However, tonight I want to post a still photo from this shoot. (Note, if you click on it you'll get a bigger version.)
I have looked at this photo for a long time.
I have spent much of my adult life around childbearing women and this tummy looks wrong to me. I am trying to decide if it looks wrong because I THINK it should look wrong, if I WANT it to look wrong, or if it really does. And... I think it really does. At this point in pregnancy (34-35 weeks), women's tummys are hard and tend to be round. Very round. It is NOT an urban legend that on a few occasions pregnant women have been accused of shoplifting basketballs from sports stores.
But Sarah Palin looks almost flat, like there's something there but it's a flat something. Also, notice at the very bottom of the picture, where the black of her shirt is silhouetted against the bright blue of her jacket. It almost looks like her belly is going in again. This is well above the level of her naval! You don't get thinner below the naval when you're eight months pregnant.
Anyway... comments? What do you think?
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