As if the national dialogue surrounding Kim Kardashian's baby weight couldn't get any more insane, Life & Style has published a report that is beyond appalling, offensive, ridiculous, cringe-worthy, etc. Their sources claim Kim is deliberately trying to gain excess weight in order to lose it in a profitable diet deal. Oh yes, they went there! Their "insider" claims, "I wouldn’t put it past her to blow up just so her weight loss is more dramatic. The way diet company deals are structured, bonuses are often built in for losing more weight in a shorter period of time.”

There's no other way to put it: This story is just plain sick. 

When it comes to moms who have bounced back from pregnancy with amazing results, we bow down to Beyonce. If you saw the Super Bowl or get a glimpse of any picture of her on any day, you know that she looks better than ever since Blue Ivy's birth in January 2012. Her slim down is especially impressive in light of her recent reveal that she gained 57 pounds during pregnancy.

That's right, Bey recently told Shape magazine that she packed on nearly 60 pounds while pregnant. That's a lot of pounds. So getting back her rocking body was no small feat, but she managed to so fabulously. So how'd she do it?

A report I read this morning reinforced my biggest fear as to why my son may have been born prematurely. In a column titled, "Premature babies: The pregnant elephant in the room is stress," the writer makes a strong case linking the two. 

In it, writer Anna White argues that the stress of working and women who refuse to slow down while they're pregnant could contribute to premature births. "As career women, in our bid to have it all, all at once, are we endangering our unborn children by increasing the risk of pre-term birth?"

I don't doubt that could be part of the problem. 

It was supposed to be Wioletta Roslan's last base jump. She was four months pregnant and an avid extreme sports addict, but she knew with a baby growing inside her, it was time to take a break. She just wanted to do it one last time.

It was that last time that killed both her and her unborn baby. According to The Sun, last weekend, the 37-year-old Swedish woman was attempting the jump from a cliff despite her mother begging her not to do it.

It's not hard to imagine that someone said to be BFF-tight with the likes of notoriously patronizing celeb skinnies Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna might be a bit judgmental about, well, real women. Nonetheless, celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson crossed a major line when she told DuJour magazine that she believes women use pregnancy as an "excuse to let their bodies go." Yup! Because pregnant women are playing the "with child" card just to stuff their faces with Ho-Hos, Cheetos, and pack on the pounds! They're just thrilled to work on achieving postpartum figures Anderson describes as "disaster bodies that have gone through hell."

The fitness guru, who ironically is a new mom herself, was on Good Morning America today to back-pedal and appease her publicist apologize for bashing other moms. It was a bit painfully clear that she wasn't that regretful.

Finally, real women are daring to show the world their real mom bodies. Proclaiming to the world, “I am woman. I am real. Hear me roar!” A group of moms, bloggers at CTWorkingMoms.com, regular moms just like you and I, decided no more. No more accepting the status quo and hiding their post partum body because it didn’t look like the typical celebrity’s post partum body.

There is so much pressure from society to be beautiful and perfect; do we really need to put that pressure on ourselves? We live in a world where there is no forgiveness for imperfection. The status quo is that we strive for beauty at any cost or at least we die trying. Perfect or bust.

As much as we all know how important it is to stay active during pregnancy, it really isn't all that easy to get motivated sometimes. And if anyone knows just how tempting it is to lounge around all day and be somewhat sedentary during those long nine months, it's definitely Snooki.

But then again, she is spending a decent amount of her pregnancy filming scenes for Jersey Shore -- which isn't exactly a favorable environment for getting up and moving.

If I'd been living at the beach when I was pregnant, I probably wouldn't have bothered to get up off my lounge chair either. In fact, I can see how that would make it about 10 times harder to gain any sort of motivation at all.

Poor Jessica Simpson. She’s one of those celebrities who can’t seem to get a break under the fingerwagging of public scrutiny. I mean, the girl wore “mom jeans” and got more headline-making heat than the international dictator of the moment. Now she can’t even get pregnancy—the most natural, instinctive womanly function—right. At least not in the overly vocal opinions of armchair critics and medical professionals who haven’t actually examined her. So she gained a little more weight during her pregnancy than some docs think is necessary. So she eats cheesecake for breakfast. So she’s blown up before our very eyes during this almost nine-month stretch of baby-making. Sooo what?! We spend too much of our time criticizing celebs. Heck, I’m guilty of it myself. But in this case, I feel compelled to stand up on behalf of Jess in this delicate time.