Keira Knightley has openly reported on the birth of her three-year-old daughter Edie in May 2015 in a recent essay titled "The Weaker Sex". The online magazine "Refinery29" published excerpts from the very personal contribution that appeared in the book "Feminists Dont Wear Pink (and other lies)" by Scarlett Curtis.
"My vagina was torn open You came out with your eyes open Arms in the air Screaming They laid you down on me, covered with blood and smear, your head misshapen from the birth canal Pulsating, gasping, screaming", the first are Lines of the text.
Keira Knightley, who has spoken on women's issues in the past, wants to raise the issue of birth and related taboos in the public more honestly. To emphasize the strength of the female body, the 33-year-old uses the metaphor of a battlefield: "I remember the shit, the vomit, the blood, the stings, I remember my battlefield." And then Knightley asks, "And I'm the weaker sex?"
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Keira Knightley: Personal Essay on BirthOne day after the birth of Knightley's daughter, the British duchess Catherine gave birth to her second child, Princess Charlotte, and appeared freshly styled in public only hours later. The actress remembers: "We get up and look at the TV, she was released seven hours later from the hospital, her face is made up and she wears high heels, the face that wants to see the world."
Pointing to Prince William's wife, Knightley adds, "Look nice, look stylish, do not show your battlefield, Kate, seven hours after your battle with life and death, seven hours after your body breaks and bloody, screeching life Do not show it, do not say it, stand there with your girl, surrounded by a pack of male photographers ".
Even after the birth of her third child, Duchess Catherine presented herself peeled out of the egg. At that time, mothers on the net showed what they looked like after birth. They criticized the staging of prominent mothers, which would raise high expectations of normal women.