# Could this Downton Abbey actress have been several months postpartum when this was filmed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122 "2013-07-21T17:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/61 "2013-09-16T23:40:47Z")
Looks like she might actually be pregnant NOW. I swear that bump keeps growing. [http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png](http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/62 "2013-09-16T23:42:18Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Looks like she might actually be pregnant NOW. I swear that bump keeps growing. > > [http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png](http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png) There is no bump. Her stomach is flat. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/63 "2013-09-16T23:45:19Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Looks like she might actually be pregnant NOW. I swear that bump keeps growing. > > [http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png](http://i.imgur.com/TXQr0Vv.png) Those are breasts. Pregnant shows a little lower. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/64 "2013-09-16T23:49:08Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Those are breasts. Pregnant shows a little lower. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/65 "2013-09-17T00:27:42Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > There is no bump. Her stomach is flat. Wasn’t flat in this picture from Aug 6: [http://i.imgur.com/2s80qk6.png](http://i.imgur.com/2s80qk6.png) Check out the bump at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/66 "2013-09-17T00:30:16Z")
Give it a rest already. You really need help. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/67 "2013-09-17T00:45:54Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Wasn’t flat in this picture from Aug 6: [http://i.imgur.com/2s80qk6.png](http://i.imgur.com/2s80qk6.png) Check out the bump at the bottom. Are you kidding me? Anyone would be thrilled to have a petite figure like that. Stop obsessing over this poor woman. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/68 "2013-09-17T01:54:31Z")
Get help. There are treatments that are very effective these days. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/69 "2013-09-17T02:46:20Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Wasn’t flat in this picture from Aug 6 Frankly, you haven’t demonstrated that you’re a good judge of women’s body shapes. Or even aware of what adult women look like. ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/70 "2013-09-18T03:13:19Z")
What about in this picture from a photoshoot she was in last year? [http://i.imgur.com/vYGIokW.png](http://i.imgur.com/vYGIokW.png) If you’re not sure what you’re looking at here’s the video from the photoshoot. Start at 2:23. She’s on the far right. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hHq0x9bRVMI/maxresdefault.jpg "Behind The Scenes On Our Downton Abbey Shoot | Grazia UK") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHq0x9bRVMI) It’s either her hip or it’s a big ol’ belly pooch, I can’t decide which. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/71 "2013-09-18T03:21:25Z")
Clearly an alien implant. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/72 "2013-09-18T03:22:54Z")
So your last two pictures were taken 10 months months apart. What makes you still believe she’s pregnant? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/73 "2013-09-18T03:23:38Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Clearly an alien implant. Claire? I thought that was a given. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/74 "2013-09-18T04:49:36Z")
I’ve personally decided to believe Claire’s merely a nonny w/ a particularly focused thread, not a delusional deluded person bent on pulling us into their delusion w/ ‘citations’. Can you imagine if I went around sharing pictures of my favorite artist’s upper body, asking people, “Do you think he hadn’t pooped yet that day? Could he have chronic constipation b/c he follows a vegetarian diet?” (My apologies to Weird Al; I merely make an analogy, not an aspersion.) ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/75 "2013-09-19T01:19:56Z")
In this picture her _entire_ belly looks fat, so what the hell? [http://i.imgur.com/cR9ZLc3.png](http://i.imgur.com/cR9ZLc3.png) It was taken the same day as this one [http://i.imgur.com/lirOzht.png](http://i.imgur.com/lirOzht.png) where only the bottom of her belly looks big. ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/76 "2013-09-19T01:28:35Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > In this picture her _entire_ belly looks fat, so what the hell? > > [http://i.imgur.com/cR9ZLc3.png](http://i.imgur.com/cR9ZLc3.png) > > It was taken the same day as this one [http://i.imgur.com/lirOzht.png](http://i.imgur.com/lirOzht.png) where only the bottom of her belly looks big. Here’s a bigger version of the first picture: [http://i.imgur.com/2rIIZtC.png](http://i.imgur.com/2rIIZtC.png) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/77 "2013-09-19T01:48:08Z")
My God, you are so gloriously nuts. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/78 "2013-09-19T01:53:06Z")
Some women are capable of altering the size of their bellies just to mess with the “normals”. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/79 "2013-09-19T01:57:07Z")
If that’s fat, god help us all. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/80 "2013-09-19T02:29:29Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > In this picture her _entire_ belly looks fat, so what the hell? No, it doesn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122.md?page=5)