Kim Zolciak from the Real Housewives of Atlanta was pictured while taking a smoke break watching an NFL game a few weeks ago.
This all would not be a big deal... but Kim is three months pregnant.
Timeline: the photo was taken in Atlanta on November 7, outside the Georgia Dome. Two weeks later, Kim and baby daddy Kroy Biermann (who plays for the Atlanta Falcons) announced they were expecting.
Someone people were saying "Maybe Kim did not know she was pregnant" well, think again. Kim told a tabloid this week she denied the pregnancy rumors in October because "I wasn't through my first trimester -- you never know what could happen."
Why is this a big deal that she is smoking while pregnant?
The Colorado Department of Health explains why it is dangerous to smoke while pregnant.
-spontaneous abortions
-fetal brain damage
-problems requiring neonatal intensive care
-infant death from perinatal disorders
-sudden infant death syndrome
-mental retardation
-behavioral problems, violence, and criminality
-cancer-causing agents in infants’ blood: potentially carcinogenic mutations; and -childhood leukemia
... and many more.
Smoking while pregnant is one of the worst things you can do for your baby. I do not understand why Kim would ever risk the life of her child for a "cig."
