For most of the history of the image, pregnancy was something to be hidden. It appears almost nowhere in the grand tradition of portraiture: the salons and galleries of Europe are full of women rendered in silk and shadow, and almost none of them are visibly with child. Pregnancy was considered too private for art, and too far from an ideal of beauty that art was supposed to serve. A woman's changing body belonged behind closed doors. Then, in a single month, that changed. Th