Not all reactions have that Brussels Studioface Linde Merckpoel got after an interview with The standard were positive. Among other things, she told how she had a hard time giving up things. ‘It made some people angry. Called me a spoiled brat. How dare I be sad? ‘
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‘It sounds bad, but I have really been mourning all that I am about to give up’, Merckpoel said The standard. She is five months pregnant, and that is ‘not always great’. She writes on Instagram that there were a lot of reactions to her article. Not always positive, it turns out. ‘It made some people angry. Called me a spoiled brat. How dare I be sad, how did I get it into my head to say that I often feel bad about that crazy body and that crazy life that I seem to have lost control since something has grown inside me? ‘
“I should be grateful for the fantastic miracle that happened to me,” she writes to her 122,000 followers. Merckpoel says she is shocked, but that she does not regret the interview. ‘On the one hand, because there is an amazing fake fuss from a pink cloud around such a pregnancy. On the other hand, I see / read / hear how many women do recognize what I am telling. I am very pleased to hear that I am not alone in this. ‘
Cursed, cried and panicked
Being pregnant “really doesn’t feel like a pink gift thrown into my lap,” Merckpoel writes. ‘Don’t get me wrong! I am deeply grateful that it can happen to me. ‘ That doesn’t stop her having been ‘seriously cursing, crying and panicking’ lately. ‘Because something gigantic is coming my way that I cannot estimate, something that scares me and which will ultimately turn my life-as-I-knew-it upside down.’
“Then add a nice shot of hormones and you have the full picture: not a pink cloud to see and you already feel like a failed mother before you are effective,” Merckpoel writes. But at the same time she is also grateful for her love, her family, her psychologist and ‘her army of fantastic friends’. “Some days are black, some white, but most wonderfully gray and that’s fine.”
