# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![TashaKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TashaKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TashaKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/141 "2013-10-01T23:01:37Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I went to school with a girl who had her body type in EIGHTH GRADE. Seriously - if you think “big boobs” is proof of having children, you are horribly mistaken and need to go to a mall some time… Want to hear something horrible? I went to school with a girl who had breasts her size in the THIRD GRADE. I’m not kidding. And no, this girl was not held back grades or anything. Granted, this girl was also fat, but NO child should have breasts that size. I’m pretty sure mine were the size of raisins at that time. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/142 "2013-10-01T23:14:34Z")
_waves_ Triple D in sixth grade! (And I was the youngest in the class, too, 11-12 years old.) I weighed all of 115 pounds, so it wasn’t obesity\*. I was just 19 year old shaped. \*yet. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/143 "2013-10-01T23:16:54Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > _waves_ Put those things away, lady! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/144 "2013-10-01T23:25:04Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Put those things away, lady! O:DO ⭕o /IUO O||O ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/145 "2013-10-02T17:50:32Z")
Could she have had a boob job then? Looking at this picture they don’t look very real…they have that fake boob look to them. [http://i.imgur.com/A8Yi1rm.png](http://i.imgur.com/A8Yi1rm.png) ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/146 "2013-10-02T17:52:14Z")
It’s just the way the dress is made to smash them in that particular shape. ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/147 "2013-10-03T00:23:03Z")
Back to the “could she be pregnant NOW” question, her face has looked fuller recently: [http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png](http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png) Together with these pictures it seems kinda likely: [http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png](http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png) [http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png](http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png) ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/148 "2013-10-03T00:27:17Z")
I think everyone was enjoying the boob talk (well, not me lol). Thanks a lot, Claire! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/149 "2013-10-03T01:42:13Z")
nm ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/150 "2013-10-03T01:42:25Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Back to the “could she be pregnant NOW” question, her face has looked fuller recently: > > [http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png](http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png) > > Together with these pictures it seems kinda likely: > > [http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png](http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png) > [http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png](http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png) Again, no it is not likely. She a normal shaped young woman. Could she be pregnant? Of course. Are those photos compelling evidence that she is? Still no. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/151 "2013-10-03T01:42:26Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Together with these pictures it seems kinda likely: You have an extremely poor track record of determining what is “likely”. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/152 "2013-10-03T01:57:43Z")
> [@Claire98909](#): > > Back to the “could she be pregnant NOW” question, her face has looked fuller recently: > > [http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png](http://i.imgur.com/IAJtz5v.png) > > Together with these pictures it seems kinda likely: > > [http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png](http://i.imgur.com/5XgqV9P.png) > [http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png](http://i.imgur.com/o28dtBM.png) Of course not - think about it for a second. If she was pregnant, she wouldn’t want anyone to know, right? So she’d just have the Internet Managers remove all traces of those photographs from Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Imgur, etc. Any current pictures of her that might suggest she’s pregnant are clearly just there to generate buzz about her. Starlets always be craving them some buzz, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Claire98909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Claire98909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire98909)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/153 "2013-10-06T21:56:49Z")
If she doesn’t have boobie implants, then why does her corset push her boobs up to her collarbone when the women with even more massive boobs (i.e. Mrs. Patmore, Mrs. Hughes) don’t have the same problem? She even said herself that the corset turned her “bosoms into earrings”. [http://i.imgur.com/9h1FPIs.png](http://i.imgur.com/9h1FPIs.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:** [October 6, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/154 "2013-10-06T22:45:44Z")
Who cares. ---
**Author:** ![TashaKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TashaKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TashaKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/155 "2013-10-06T23:00:02Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Who cares. It’s actually quite important, since Daisy’s boobs will feature heavily in next week’s episode of Downton Abbey. ---
**Author:** ![TashaKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TashaKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TashaKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/156 "2013-10-06T23:22:41Z")
Like many of the costumes on the show, I believe that the corsets are Edwardian originals. Whereas Michelle Dockery is 5’9" and needed to have one made specially for her, I believe that the other cast members had to make do with “hand me down” corsets. According to IMDb, McShera is 5’4" and Mrs. Patmore is obviously several inches shorter than her. Most likely McShera had to make do with a corset that didn’t suit her height, so her “massive boobies” burst out the top. I win! ---
**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:** [October 6, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/157 "2013-10-06T23:27:28Z")
> [@TashaKitty](#): > > It’s actually quite important, since Daisy’s boobs will feature heavily in next week’s episode of Downton Abbey. 😃 Pardon, me! I stand corrected! And not boobs… Boobies ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/158 "2013-10-07T00:03:00Z")
This has got to be a running bet, right? “Hey, Bob, you get them to talk to you more on that there intertoobz web board?” “Yep!” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/159 "2013-10-07T00:16:08Z")
I’m leaning towards performance art. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-downton-abbey-actress-have-been-several-months-postpartum-when-this-was-filmed/664122/160 "2013-10-07T00:17:05Z")
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