Stacey Solomon caught smoking whilst pregnant...
 

Stacey Solomon has admitted that she is "hugely embarrassed" after being photographed smoking while seven months pregnant.

The X Factor and I'm A Celebrity star, who was voted 'Celebrity Mum of the Year 2011', was caught having four cigarettes in two hours outside The Works photographic studio in Fulham, south west London, earlier this week.

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"I know it doesn't look good but I only have a few cigs a day. I don't think I've let down my fans, but I do get a little stressed at times and a ciggie helps me calm down," Solomon told The People.

"I desperately want to stop *smoking and I don't want to set a bad example. It's a tough habit to break but I'm going to give it my best shot."

The singer, who has a three-year-old son named Zach, confessed to smoking around six cigarettes a day and claimed that doctors had told her quitting would be "more stressful" on her body during the pregnancy.

Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, said: "If Stacey is smoking at seven months she's got a serious *problem. She is to be pitied as she's obviously heavily addicted. She needs help not condemnation."

Solomon, who is expecting her second child with fiancé Aaron Barnham, admitted last week that she doesn't like being pregnant, calling it "tiring and emotional.

Disgusting :bored:

what? noooooooo


my happy lovely image of her is ruined now

didn't she tell people off on IAC for smoking?

She's pregnant again ? :o

Baby will have a smokers cough

I didnt even realise she smoked lol. Not everybody can stop, she reduced her intake at least. Im a bit shocked just because but I dont think she is any less 'lovely' because of this.

Yeah I dont remember her smoking on IAC?
Knowing that she is heavily pregnant should be enough for her to give up. I know that I shouldn't but I genuinely do look down on her for smoking while pregnant.

Again, perhaps I'm the only one but...I really don't give a sh*t (about the story itself, not you posting it bbfan :p).

Yes Photos of her were in the Sunday people paper.

She is Hooked

Er, yes they can they just choose not too. The whole some people can't quit smoking argument is bull**** (not aiming that at you btw just in general).

If a woman can't put her own needs and cravings aside for the sake of her unborn child then she shouldn't even think of being a mother. It's really quite disgusting. Babies born to mothers who smoke usually have a lower birth weight and are more prone to respiratory problems such as asthma. Smoking during pregnancy increases the danger of problems during delivery, not just for the baby but for the mother.

Nope, not the only one.

So the docs say. They also say carrots give you cancer. Doesnt stop people eating them though. Most recently they have decided ecstasy may cure cancer too...should all cancer sufferers go and get off their faces?

I believe in everything in moderation..and seriously cant see what harm a couple of ciggies a day will do. Yea if someone proper chainsmoked throughout the pregnancy it would be a problem...but a few wont make a difference at all IMO. If she smoked a lot before getting pregnant, and has cut down, its better than stopping outright, as the latter would send her stress levels through the roof, which also harms babies :)

People are way too judgemental when it comes to smoking. My sis had people stopping her in the street when she was pregnant moaning about it. I bet they wouldnt go into mc donalds and moan on at a pregnant person eating a load of junk food...which is just as bad really...

Its a biological fact that reg smokers crave nicotine actually :laugh:
My mum stopped with me and my bro but everybody is different and some people dont have the will power (dont confuse that with 'choose') to fight the craving.

You're allowed to smoke when you're pregnant though?

And, her tits look amazing.

It says a lot about what kind of person she is imo. If you don't love your children you don't love anybody, Those 'mother of the year' awards aren't even fit to wipe someones bottom with.

Awful thing to suggest.

Oh for gods sake. talk about over dramatic :laugh:

My mother smoked through her pregnancies with me, my sis and my brother. Does this mean she doesnt love us?!

And for the record, we were all born without problem, near our due dates, between 6-7pounds, and none of us have asthma or anything like that either. Her 5 ciggies a day did us no harm whatsoever :)

Don't do it Vicky :nono:

the world will end if you do

Strangely I can't remember her smoking in IAC..she must have though.

...ok? :p

she said in the article she is trying to stop, it's not like she is out there smoking and drinking as much as possible. non story really

but you have to give your children the best possible chance, life is hard enough as it is without taking percentage chances with their whole life, and for what? for a cigarrette?

Four cigarettes in two hours is hardly "a couple of ciggies". At that rate she is on around 20 a day. Hardly moderation is it? If she doesn't care enough about the potential risks to her unborn child or herself, for that matter, then she's hardly a great advert for a caring mother either. And I speak as someone who gave up a 30 a day habit so I know exactly how hard it is to give up. Having my kids gave me the impetus and motivation to kick the habit for good - I certainly never wanted them to see me with a fag in my hand all the time, nor subject them to second hand smoking.

I will be as "judgmental" as I wish on a public forum - or are we not supposed to offer our opinions on stories in the news? It's a far cry from accosting individuals in the street to harrass them - that's just plain rude, unless of course they are infringing my personal space by forcing me to breath in their exhaled smoke. Then I will have my say. Sadly unborn babies and children don't have the option to protest do they?

Thing is though, so many things people do are bad for babies. Eating rubbish food, being stressed, even exercise sometimes. But you dont see people going hysterical... as if the pregnant woman just punched herself in the stomach when she eats a pizza or whatever, yet you do with smoking...

Another with a victim complex it seems. I merely offered my own opinion. I suppose I should refrain from doing so in future incase someone takes it as me saying they arent allowed to offer opinions. Will leave this now before my words get twisted again :bored:

I don't think she did, unless they just choose not to show any bits where she may have smoked? But if she managed to give up smoking during IAC, she had the willpower, then she could surely manage it during her pregnancy if she wants to?

..I was wondering if I had missed it...smokers are usually shown as smokers and it made me wonder if they had edited out her smoking...probably not, smokers have been popular with the public before,,it wouldn't make a difference...reading too much into it LOL

Not showing her smoking was part of the fix to have her win instead of Dom Joly I think

tbf Angus Vicky has just as much right to put down her concerns and not be greated with a torrent of abuse as you do to state your opinions and give her that torrent of abuse imo

that's all true but smoking is also bad, two wrongs (or five or six) don't make a right imo

To be fair fruit_cake I have re-read my post and fail to see where I have given Vicky a "torrent of abuse". Now who's playing the victim?

..I'm glad I'm not the only cynical one here LOL

I don't know who's playing the victim, but a little bit more empathy and less judging might help a bit imo

Yeah but people can quit smoking, they just have to want to quit. If they don't truly want to quit then it's impossible.

Not being funny, but ultimately it's her choice what she does. It's not right that the public plaster down a image. If she wanted to smoke, let her.

Is this thread about Stacey Soloman smoking or an anti smoking thread...if it's about Stacey, who are we to judge, if her baby isn't fine and it's because she has smoked, she will have to live with it...ideally, she should give up but everyone's different and she doesn't suddenly become a different person because of it.....if it's an anti smoking thread, the title is misleading for anyone who may/may not want to join

in fairness, it's not her that will have to live with it, it's the child who will have to live with it.