Juicy Celeb Pregnancy Cravings

This week a pregnant, and still remarkably bootylicious, Beyoncé admitted her cravings were coming thick and fast in the form of an insatiable appetite for bananas with tomato ketchup.

It may seem like tawdry gossip or the odd fixations of self-conscious madwomen, but knowing the weird and wonderful cravings of pregnant celebs seems to be a guilty pleasure for a lot of us. There’s just something comforting about knowing some of the world’s most beautiful and successful women, who we generally only encounter at their air-brushed, styled, personal trainer-ed best, are actually as susceptible to filling their faces as the rest of the women on Earth.

Here’s a list of some faves:

Angelina Jolie: Sometimes it’s not about what you eat, but what you eat it with. Ange reportedly couldn’t get enough chocolate while she was expecting, who could blame her? But the preferred chocolate was of the cinnamon/chilli variety and acted as a desert to a nice plate of onion rings with mustard. Yum.

Britney Spears: Never to be outdone in the kook department, Brit took a more natural, some might call earthy, approach to pregnancy. She didn’t chow down on cake or sweeties but instead enjoyed munching on dirt. Yep, soil.

Gwyneth Paltrow: Perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect husband, perfect voice (?), perfect acting. Yet Gwyn threw off the shackles of her macrobiotic diet; brown rice, steamed veggies and all, and instead opted for the greasy deluxe combo of  grilled cheese sandwiches, French fries, tacos and pizza.

Kate Hudson: Sex. Good on her.

Kate Richie: She may be a size-zero fashion designer, socialite and daughter to the stars, but that didn’t stop Richie from ordering her man to retrieve her doughnuts, chicken pasta, burgers, watermelon and mango at every hour of the day and night. She says her hankerings usually peaked at 2 or 3am.

Honourable mentions go to Cate Blanchett who desired pickles and ice-cream, J-Lo whose tum was full of M&Ms, salsa and orange soda, and Victoria Beckham who wanted nothing but smoked salmon (how posh? Get it?!).

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