"I'm craving a cheeseburger."

"So let's go get one."

"But, I'm getting so fat. Look at my belly! It's HUGE!"

"It's not so bad, I promise."

"You promise?"

"I promise. You look fine!"

"I eat too many sundaes."

That was a conversation I had almost four years ago when I was pregnant with my second son. The conversation was, as you might have expected, was with my husband. The roles, as you might not expect, were reversed.

My husband was suffering from Couvade Syndrome.

In other words, he was pregnant, too.

Outspoken actress and self-described "mommy warrior and cellulite killer" Jenny McCarthy tends to either annoy or overjoy parents, but now, she's done something that will probably make most moms smirk. She's claimed in the past that she weighed 211 pounds when she was pregnant with her son Evan  in 2002. Being that most of us see gorgeous celebs like McCarthy toting around a perfect basketball and otherwise slim figure while pregnant, that number's a bit hard to believe ... until you see the photo McCarthy tweeted, which serves as "photographic evidence" of her hefty weight gain. In addition to the photo, she commented, "For anyone that doubted my 211 lbs at pregnancy here is a photo I found! Meaty meaty ass! Whoa!" Uh, yeah. I'll say! That is some baby bump!

I also love that she admitted, in an interview with Shape magazine, that she expected to be 170 when she left the hospital, but walked out of there weighing in at 200 pounds! 

Since Kate Middleton and Prince William have been married all of five minutes now, of course the big question on everybody's mind is "When are we getting an heir to the throne?!" But now a celeb doctor in the UK is saying that Kate might be too skinny to conceive a child. If she loses even one pound more, apparently, she could have "extreme difficulty" getting pregnant.

Smells like an unfounded controversy to me. I get hassled routinely for being too thin, and I conceived and gave birth to two healthy kids. I didn't choose this body type, it's just what I am; pictures of my father when he was young confirm that my build is genetic. Still, people make comments: Just the other day as I was walking down the street in Manhattan, a homeless woman called me an "anorexic b*tch" for no reason. (I hadn't realized that eating disorders were such a cause for concern within that particular woman's demographic, but whatever.)

Breaking news, you guys! It seems that, incredibly, it may be possible to keep women from getting so damn fat during pregnancy—if they're forced to continually receive text messages reminding them that it's a moment on the lips ... and a lifetime on the hips.

That's right, there is a truly heroic effort underway to address our nation's most serious health problem: the insane amounts of lard women tend to pile on when they're knocked up. According to a Dr. Raul Artal, "Excessive weight gain in pregnancy is a major reason for the obesity epidemic in our country."

While this doesn't quite explain obesity in men or childless women, we should probably go ahead and assume that pregnant ladies are mistakenly shoving donuts in the mouths of nearby strangers while frenziedly aiming for their own slobbering, ravenous food-holes.

Obesity is a huge problem, especially in the US, since it's often joined by many the health problem (though not all overweight people are unhealthy). We've discovered over decades that obese mothers often have children who are also obese, though there's plenty of argument as to whether that's genetic or lifestyle, but research points to both.

The National Health Service has decided to take 400 non-diabetic but obese pregnant women to see if giving them a drug during pregnancy can help prevent their babies from being obese, since their studies imply that obesity-programming starts in utero.

Um ... oooookay.

If you spent a lot of your first trimester hunched over a toilet bowl, then by the time you get to that euphoric second trimester, you might be thinking, "Finally, I can eat all the hot fudge sundaes and fried chicken dinners I've earned!" Yes, a lot of women feel like since they're eating for two (or three or more) and feel pretty huge as it is, now is the time to go buck wild at the buffet. 

But not so fast there, Sister Snacks-a-Lot! Sure, if you're underweight or even normal weight, then it's probably okay to cut yourself some slack and enjoy many of those guilt-filled goodies you used to pass up (within reason, of course). If you're overweight or obese though, gaining too much weight is not only unnecessary, but dangerous as well. 

Everyone knows that when you get pregnant, your belly gets bigger. Or, at least I hope everyone knows this. (If you don't, oh it will get big and round!) Most people also know it affects your boobs, too. They get bigger but that also means they might sag. Still, for eternally-flat girls like me, getting boobs for the first time is pretty awesome.

However, what not everyone knows is all the other things that pregnancy can change with your body, some temporary, some not.

My belly at 22 weeks!So, it's happened -- I've fully popped. No longer are strangers not-so-subtly glancing down, trying to figure out if it's chub or a belly bump. My tummy is large and in charge, sticking out there for the world to see, too obvious for a blousy shirt to hide. Hey, it's great, I'm loving my pregnant body, but what I'm not loving are the people who go, "How far along are you? Five months?! You're HUGE!"

Uh, ouch. A few days ago, three separate people got all bug-eyed and mouths agape, shocked that I wasn't further along, considering how ginormous I am. I'm sorry, but when did it suddenly become okay to tell a woman, any woman, that she's big? That's not cool, not cool at all!