May 27, 2024

"Belly casting is a growing trend among mothers-to-be — a chance to make a permanent memento of a momentous experience...."

"Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian turned the belly casts they commissioned into plot points for their family’s reality show, while Cardi B posed for a shoot in her custom breast and belly cast... to announce the impending arrival of her second child.... Japanwala used her entire body for her first collection: One piece, which included her breasts and vulva, left her parents speechless.... Such defiant sculpting is anchored in shamelessness, a rebuttal of the Urdu insult beghairat — roughly meaning 'without shame or honor' — often hurled at women. She’ll hold open casting calls at her studio in Karachi, Pakistan, and finds many women will come to have their breasts and nipples cast, anonymously, without telling another soul. 'That’s a radical act of quiet shamelessness, a secret between the artist and her,' she says...."

From "Why women are making nude casts of their bodies/From Cardi B to the Kardashians, women are stripping down for hyper-realist molds — especially while pregnant — and displaying the results in ways both private and public" (WaPo).

34 comments:

mikee said...

I, for one, think the Dads should do the same sort of body casting of the pertinent parts of their anatomy.

Bob Boyd said...

I tried fly casting, but it ruined my pants.

Traditionalguy said...

Reminds me of a great, great, great Grandpaw Smith who had a statue of him placed on his mausoleum in Oakland Cemetery.

Talk about Ego.

TaeJohnDo said...

I wish I had so much money that I could do stupid sh!t like that if I wanted to.

n.n said...

Women capture the essence of motherhood in a work of child. Men commemorate fatherhood with an Obelisk.

Eva Marie said...

Remember Cynthia Plaster Caster - who used to make “plaster casts of famous musician and artists’ body parts, mainly erect penises and women’s breasts”?

n.n said...

A mother's artistic conception of her unborn child sculpted by the father.

n.n said...

And breasts inflated with anticipation.

tcrosse said...

My obese cousin did a cast of her pot belly as part of a therapy session. I suggested she use it as a jello mold.

Iman said...

“It’s the dismal tide. It is not the one thing.”

Iman said...

This shit is almost as horrible as every Trey Gowdy haircut.

Ann Althouse said...

"I, for one, think the Dads should do the same sort of body casting of the pertinent parts of their anatomy."

In this realm, one must acknowledge the decades of work by Cynthia Plaster Caster.

Ann Althouse said...

And now I acknowledge the prior comment of Eva Marie.

Birches said...

It's not a growing trend. My sil did it 17 years ago.

Quaestor said...

The self-adoration is getting mighty stale.

Birches said...

I thought it was weird then and it still is.

John henry said...

HBO used to have a series called real sex.

They once showed, pretty graphically, how porn actresses made functional replicas of their vaginas.

Seemed to be a pretty big business

John Henry

PM said...

The memento, of course, is the baby.

Mason G said...

"The memento, of course, is the baby."

Assuming they don't abort it.

Joe Smith said...

Is this what Marie Antoinette did for the first Champagne glasses?

Humperdink said...

“I wanted it to be a gorgeous object.” says Nomfundo Magudulela

Worshipped by all.

Biff said...

Iman said...“It’s the dismal tide. It is not the one thing.”

Indeed. I'm so tired.

rhhardin said...

Somewhere Althouse has a wall of plaster-cast vaginas post.

rhhardin said...

Men aren't inward-looking so not in the market.

mikee said...

The Electric KoolAid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is indeed a great resource for all things silly about the 60s. It was indeed there that I first encountered the plaster caster, and subsequently saw her again in several movies, IIRC, including a Hendrix biopic. I preferred the lower brow and more approachable 60s writing of Thompson, but don't recall if he mentioned plaster casting, ever. As for me, cast in bronze or fuggedaboutit.

Achilles said...

It is an interesting statement about the inherent value that women are born with and particularly what that audience is interested in.

CardiB is just doing porn. The Kardashions are just doing soap operas. Not a lot of talent on display really.

I am also going to make the case here that "artists" like CardiB and the Kardashions are picked and supported because the powers that be want them to be role models for young women. I don't think they would be particularly popular if the major corporate sponsors of this filth weren't pushing it so hard.

I think it would be better that prostitutes and whores can make money without having to go through pimps and handlers. But these particular prostitutes just traded out Corn Pop for Sony and Comcast/NBC.

Hubert the Infant said...

There have been about 100 billion humans. Being pregnant is not a rare condition.

Interested Bystander said...

Ugh. I’m not EVEN going to look at the pictures. What a disgusting woman Cardi B is.

Caroline said...

Do you have a tag for Weimar America?

FleetUSA said...

I often advise mothers-to-be to take plenty of photos as this is often a rare moment of beauty. With or without clothes.

FleetUSA said...

At NYU 1970-71 I had lunch by chance with a woman who was into plaster casting. I chickened out. 😂😱

FullMoon said...

I am offering the service via Craigslist.

Volunteers unexpectedly sparse

PM said...

That's a quite a range for a 'growing trend': "..from Cardi B to the Kardashians."

n.n said...

Another fetish to garner a minority obsession.