Celeb moms make maternity dressing look easy. Think #Rihanna, #HaileyBieber, #SofiaRichieGrainge, and #BarbaraPalvin. When they shared their pregnancies, their style felt refreshing and, dare we say, cool. But 16 weeks into our senior editor halielesavage’s pregnancy, she took those images off her mental mood board. The reality? Our favorite A-listers aren’t commuting to an office three days a week, and her budget couldn’t follow their lead. “I’m hardly the only person who’s learned ‘I have nothing to wear’ is a pregnancy side effect,” she writes. “Options are limited to ‘MAMA’ T-shirts, denim that functions for only two weeks of the three trimesters, or nothing at all. Giving up style just to get dressed during pregnancy feels like the first of many compromises on the road to motherhood. As moms like me are observing with every fitting-room selfie and unboxed order, the problem’s getting harder to ignore. Demand hasn’t disappeared, but the outward effort to meet it has.” Read more...