Pregnant Ashley Tisdale says people made ‘invasive’ comments about her body: ‘I felt ashamed’

Ashley Tisdale is documenting her pregnancy and all her changing emotions. (Photo: REUTERS/Gus Ruelas)

Ashley Tisdale, who is expecting her first child, is sharing some relatable feelings about her changing body during pregnancy.

On Saturday, the High School Musical star, 35, published a black-and-white photo in which she touches her stomach. “Ready when you are little one,” she captioned the post, directing followers to a new blog post on her lifestyle site Frenshe. “This glam squad always knows how to make me feel beautiful, but I have to be honest, I haven’t gotten the whole warm and fuzzy feeling about my pregnant body being beautiful,” she wrote. “Don’t get me wrong, I am so proud of my body and I’m so grateful to be able to create a home and grow my little one.”

Tisdale and her husband, the composer Christopher French, were married in 2014 and are expecting a little girl.

“However, seeing my body look so different is still a little startling to me. It’s like I don’t fully recognize myself and almost like an out-of-body experience. Thoughts like, ‘Is that really me?’ come to mind,” wrote The Masked Dancer judge. “I think it comes down to body acceptance vs body love. I think that you can love your body, no matter what shape or form, but it’s the acceptance part that trips me up a little.”

It never helps that people around Tisdale commented on her body. “I popped pretty early in pregnancy, and I had people say “I think you’re farther along than you think”, “Are you having twins?”— all very invasive things,” she wrote. “However, I brushed those comments off as I do with any type of criticism. I think change can be hard, but I continue each day saying ‘I love you’ to my body because it’s doing so much, and it’s creating is a beautiful miracle. I have to let the ego-mind go and appreciate that my body can even do this. It’s letting go of my own needs because the needs of my baby are more important.”

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Last month, the actress shared a naked selfie from the side, taken in front of a mirror. “Let’s start loving ourselves and our bodies in every shape and form,” she wrote on Instagram.

Looking forward to life as a mom, Tisdale wrote in her blog post, “I don’t know what my body will be like after the baby comes, but I do know I’m going to give it time, let it heal, and take really good care of it. I wanted to share this because I’m sure that like a lot of other people, I felt ashamed that I was uncomfortable at first. Yet, it’s important to honor how you feel and understand that everyone has a different experience with pregnancy.”

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