WITH her baby bump growing, Jessica decided to head out to buy herself affordable maternity clothes.
But she was baffled to find that most of the major supermarkets don’t sell them.
Jessica explained that due to her height and rapidly changing shape, she wants to be able to try maternity clothes onCredit: instagram/clumsymum
She visited , , and and found that despite having aisles packed with baby clothes, none of them had
Jessica, who is currently pregnant with her fourth baby, decided to check out Tesco Extra first.
“Loads of jeans and loads of lounge wear, loads of baby – but Tesco is a no for maternity clothes. Nothing extra about that,” she told her followers on her @clumsymum Instagram.
And it wasn’t just Tesco, Sainsbury’s was exactly the same.
“Sainsbury’s, you’ve really let yourself down,” she fumed.
After pals had told her that Asda’s is the place to go for decent maternity wear, Jessica had high hopes.
“I’m expecting big things. Almost a quarter of the store in Asda is dedicated to clothes,” she said.
“Huge bra section, there were two aisles, and so many baby clothes. Let down. Guess what? Not one single item of maternity clothes or maternity underwear in the whole of Asda.”
Her investigation into supermarket maternity wear was sparked after she uploaded a reel of her ranting about the lack of decent clothing for mums-to-be on the high street.
“So supermarkets aren’t the solution either. Where to next?” she said.
CLOTHING CALAMITY
Her followers flocked to the comment section to share their own struggles with maternity wear, with one admitting she has been forced to buy oversized men’s clothing.
They said: “We need to try things on in order to find out our size! It’s so annoying! I gave up and buy everything in men’s and in a medium.”
Another agreed, adding: “How you’re supposed to just order online when your entire body shape changes and you no longer have any idea what size you are is beyond me.”
In her original video on high street clothes, which has since gone viral with over one million views, she said that she wanted to start a petition.
She said: “I would like to start a petition to bring back maternity clothes to shops so I can try them on.
“I’m 5’2, I need some maternity jeans, I can’t order online because nothing fits me, I have to try it on.”
In the comment section, she wrote: “When I was pregnant with my first, it was easy to pick up stretchy clothes, but every shop I’ve tried has told me I need to order online.
HIGH DEMAND
“I just want to try on some clothes that might fit my tummy and my short legs without having to spend a fortune and faff around sending half of it back.”
She was shocked to find that even didn’t have maternity jeans in store.
Her followers rushed to agree with her struggle.
“I have never agreed with anything more. And also make them fashionable??? Why do we get relegated to ‘Frump’ as soon as we become pregnant?” one raged.
“Please!!! They have baby clothes, loads of baby clothes. Guess who had to be for those babies to exist?? The demand is there, people,” a second added.
“I hated this the most about my whole pregnancy. Not a single store. I’m already tired to the max. Let me just try things on in person, this whole online shopping feels like extra stress and frustration,” another wrote.
She pointed out that the three supermarkets all had huge baby clothing sectionsCredit: instagram/clumsymum
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