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Why are these women posting pix of their bellies?

January 23, 2019 09:07 IST

Well, they are not pregnant. They call it food babies.

Fatimah shared this picture of her bloated belly

IMAGE: Fatima's post on bloating went viral and she had to post the picture on the right to confirm that she is not pregnant.Photograph: Kind courtesy Fatimah/Twitter

It all started with one post.

On January 20,Twitter user Fatimah posted a picture of her bloated belly and wrote: 'I can't be the only one that gets extremely bloated and starts imagining myself being pregnant??'

Soon girls from all over started reacting to the post by sharing their own pictures of bloated bellies calling it absolutely normal.

Food babies

'I've been waiting for this moment' Valerie, another woman wrote.

'Bloated not pregnant,' a user named SisiYemmie shared.

As the conversation picked up, the sisterhood gave it a cute name -- 'food babies.'

Turns out, most women face bloated bellies and the bump makes it look like they're pregnant.

Now, we've all been there, haven't we?

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