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Kate Middleton Sparks Pregnancy Rumors With Food Choice

By Katie Kindelan | ABC News Blogs – Fri, Nov 4, 2011 9:58 AM EDT

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Kate Middleton Sparks Pregnancy Rumors With Food Choice (ABC News)

Kate Middleton's refusal to eat peanut paste during a royal appearance in Copenhagen is sparking rumors that she may be pregnant with a little peanut herself.

Cameras caught Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, politely declining to sample a bite of peanut paste as she and Prince William visited a United Nations aid depot in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

Doctors and government experts have long urged pregnant women to stay away from peanuts and their bi-products to avoid allergies.

While her husband and hosts, the Danish Crown Prince and his wife, dug into the paste, a staple of UNICEF packages handed out in areas suffering from famine, Kate said no.  Reports say she also gave her husband a knowing look as he examined the paste's packaging and label.

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Adding to the speculation is the reaction from the Palace, which is normally mum on all matters Kate.

"Her spokesman went out of their way to stress that she has no nut allergy whatsoever," Duncan Larcombe, royal editor for The Sun, told ABC News.

Also fanning the rumor mill is the timing of a potential pregnancy for Kate.

Just last week, the British parliament changed the country's succession rules --  in place for more than 300 years -- to allow females to become the head of the monarchy. In other words, if Kate is indeed pregnant, and it's a girl, the baby could be Queen.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was said to have initiated the change in the rules so that the first child of William and Kate could benefit regardless of the sex.

Kate's headline-making "no" to the peanut paste came as she and William made their official overseas humanitarian trip.

While in Copenhagen, the newlywed royals learned more about the situation in drought-stricken East Africa, toured the UN facility and even pitched in to help pack cardboard boxes of supplies.

While Kate's dietary choices may have indicated impending motherhood, her fashion choices on the trip did not.

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In Copenhagen, the famously svelte and stylish royal donned a slim red coat, cinched tightly at the waist with a gold-accented crocodile belt, and there was not a baby bump in site.

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  • CNN-NBC-ABC-CBS -is- BS
    CNN-NBC-ABC-CBS -is- BS  •  6 months ago
    oh brother, what would happen if she a PICKLE on a hot dog?
    • CNN-NBC-ABC-CBS -is- BS
      CNN-NBC-ABC-CBS -is- BS 6 months ago
      typo she had a pickle: I hate when that happens...
    • Christine P
      Christine P 6 months ago
      Pickle on a hot dog = Chicago style dog. ;) It's really out there!
    • Zoey
      Zoey 6 months ago
      Nothing. Pregnant women can eat Pickles. Usually, most foods do not bother Pregnant women. Unless they are allergic to that food. Though, they are an a certain food "diet", to keep their weight set right for their age, and height, and to keep the baby healthy, etc.
  • Alicia L
    Alicia L  •  6 months ago
    Man, what is it with yahoo news and grammar!? It should be "there was not a baby bump in SIGHT." not Site! Site is a place, like a construction site! SIGHT is a sense, or in this case, the line of sight (what a person can see) indicated no baby bumps present. Yahoo needs better copy editors.
    • Brittany
      Brittany 6 months ago
      Yeah... that's all I got out of this article
    • Dave
      Dave 6 months ago
      Actually the article was from an ABC News Blog not Yahoo... Yahoo is merely reprinting it
    • Judy
      Judy 6 months ago
      Thank you for correcting that.:-D If you didn't I was going to.
  • Anthony F
    Anthony F  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  6 months ago
    Are the media freaks already watching every frickin' move this couple makes? They already killed the groom's mother by chasing her down and now they're climbing up Kates butt with a microscope. LEAVE THEN ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Sofia
      Sofia 6 months ago
      Assumption is the mother of all ......what's my problema???
    • Frank
      Frank 6 months ago
      I wouldn't mind climbing on her sister...
    • aloha_cjm
      aloha_cjm 6 months ago
      Leave THEM, not then, alone.
  • CMH47
    CMH47  •  Avenel, United States  •  6 months ago
    "and there was not a baby bump in site." The word you need is sight. Have you no copy editors?
    • Charlotte
      Charlotte 6 months ago
      They are obviously as ignorant as the writer!
  • Showoff
    Showoff  •  6 months ago
    I am sick of the media always in somebody bedroom or sex life......When they get ready to start a family they will let you know, maybe by text or email.....
    • Golden Pointed Hair
      Golden Pointed Hair 6 months ago
      When ? The main problem is when, not by what means ?
    • Amy
      Amy 6 months ago
      (Dalton, lol) And I agree, aren't matters of pregnancy and someone's sex life deserving of privacy, at least? Like who cares! Let it be.
    • debbie
      debbie 6 months ago
      Since when is someone being pregnant or not, such big news?
      What's the big scoop, almost anyone can do this. (Females, I mean)
  • D'OH
    D'OH  •  6 months ago
    Doctors and government experts have long urged pregnant women to stay away from peanuts and their bi-products to avoid allergies -- yet it's a staple of UNICEF packages handed out in areas suffering from famine -- (including pregnant women)...
  • DENISE
    DENISE  •  6 months ago
    If she is pregnant, the press should leave her alone. If not, the press should leave her alone. She has a tough job being married to Prince William with all the attendant attention. But if she does happen to be pregnant, I wish her all the luck in the world. I'm thrilled that the British countries have agreed that a female could be next in line for the throne.
  • Keystone
    Keystone  •  Waynesboro, United States  •  6 months ago
    And we should care why?
  • Amy
    Amy  •  6 months ago
    Maybe she had just had peanut paste on the plane.
  • A Yahoo! User  •  6 months ago
    oh my goodness, did you all not learn from poor Diana, leave them alone, stop stalking them, maybe she does not like peanuts, or pb, whatever,.. whenever there is a pregnacy they will share it in their own good time, can they not have a life without everyone speculating!!! please stop living through the royals, get yr own life!!!!
  • Ggonza
    Ggonza  •  6 months ago
    unless she is already allergic to peanuts they are 100% safe to eat while pregnant...
  • G
    G  •  6 months ago
    Let's start another rumor: is Justin Bieber the father? ;)
  • M
    M  •  6 months ago
    In SIGHT. No baby bump in SIGHT. Good God, this is supposed to be a professional writer and she can't even manage homonyms? What is the world coming to? Does no one edit these stories? Pure, inexcusable crap.
  • Lady
    Lady  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 months ago
    They (the news media and such) discussed his NOT wearing a ring back at the time of the wedding. Many royal males do NOT. When you are heir to the throne, I'm pretty sure the girls KNOW you are married.
  • Scanner
    Scanner  •  6 months ago
    Yeah, and I bet if either of them stared at the napkin too long, put the fork in the wrong hand, blew on their food to cool it, and did not taste a particular food on their plate, the press would try to make something out of that also. Leave them alone and let them enjoy a life NOT under a microscope!
  • Andre
    Andre  •  6 months ago
    You people really need to get lives...
  • Ghost
    Ghost  •  6 months ago
    Now the #$%$ is really going to start. The press never left his mom alone. It's probably too much to ask that they give her a few moments peace and not jump to conclusions over every little thing she does or doesn't do.
  • ann
    ann  •  6 months ago
    no, definitely no editors. peanut 'BI-products"?????? give me break.
  • Dizzy
    Dizzy  •  6 months ago
    Bi-products? Shouldn't that be by-products?
  • old_kiwi_kid
    old_kiwi_kid  •  Auckland, New Zealand  •  6 months ago
    When is the media going to get it right??? She ceased to be Kate Middleton when she got married.
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