"I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat"
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The profanity matters. “Whatever the hell I want” is less indulgence than boundary-setting, a refusal to play nice with the constant, soft-spoken surveillance that surrounds pregnant bodies: strangers’ comments, doctor-shaming morphed into lifestyle advice, the endless “should you be eating that?” Hudson’s star status gives her a megaphone, and she uses it to say the quiet part out loud: the expectation isn’t health, it’s performative control.
There’s also a deliberate clash with the Hollywood economy. Actresses are paid in part for their appearance; their bodies are treated like public property and private capital. Pregnancy disrupts that arrangement, and Hudson’s pride reads like a short-lived strike against an industry that sells thinness as professionalism. She’s not pretending weight gain is universally easy or medically irrelevant. She’s insisting that pregnancy shouldn’t be another audition, and that desire - appetite, comfort, autonomy - is allowed to exist without apology.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hudson, Kate. (2026, January 16). I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gained-60-pounds-and-im-proud-of-it-why-do-i-95830/
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Hudson, Kate. "I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gained-60-pounds-and-im-proud-of-it-why-do-i-95830/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gained-60-pounds-and-im-proud-of-it-why-do-i-95830/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.





