Scarlett Johansson kept her pregnancies out of the public eye for fear of being 'scrutinised'
msn.comGallery: He said NO! Did you know these Hollywood ladies proposed to their men (BANG Showbiz)The 'Black Widow' star went on to explain that she has felt "scrutinised" by other women who have also been pregnant and struggled with some difficult feelings when pregnant with her son.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, she explained: "I realized when I was pregnant with my son [Cosmo, born last August], it’s funny how much stuff people put on you when you’re pregnant—their hopes or their judgment or their desire, a lot of that is put on pregnant women.
I would have a lot of people saying things to me immediately, like 'How great, oh my God, that’s wonderful. ' And while I was definitely excited to be pregnant in some ways, I also had a lot of not-great feelings about it, and that would be scrutinised by—I’m talking about, like, women that were close to me.
You expect it from men, but from women, it’s like, 'Come on, girl, you’ve been through it. ' "I feel like a lot of things have moved forward in the past five years in terms of women’s empowerment, but that thing remains sort of in the Dark Ages.
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