It was only after she was snapped by paparazzi mid-puff that she was confronted with being exposed. I was confident that I could do, but I couldn't do it. I begged for the photographers not to run the story because I know how bad it looks - it is bad - and I told them it was a deeply shameful secret, that no one knew I was having these five cigarettes a week.
Not my mum, not my best friend, not my partner I would never do anything to harm them and yet, here I am having five cigarettes and justifying it. I was able to give up so easily with the others so I self-analysed and decided that this way was the way I could get through it and keep the show on the road, in terms of work and family commitments, until the forced cold turkey of hospital.
Since the broadcast, Swan has released a statement and taken her profile off Twitter. She says she was forced to acknowledge her addiction when her secret was about to become public.
When you smoke a cigarette you inhale the gas carbon monoxide. This means that the amount of oxygen available to your baby through the umbilical cord is reduced. Smoking can also reduce the flow of blood through the placenta, which limits the amount of nutrients that feed the baby.
The anti-smoking lobby Action on Smoking and Health said Swan's confession showed just how "extremely addictive" nicotine could be. She said most mothers did not deliberately want to risk their child's health whether they were addicted to "nicotine or heroin. The National Health and Medical Research Council and National Institute of Clinical Studies says cigarette smoking during pregnancy also increases the risk of the baby being born with a cleft lip and palate or developing childhood cancers.
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For the past two years, Swan has spoken openly and written liberally about her battle with her weight and her subsequent battle with critics who say she is too fat for television, too fat for motherhood, too fat for a Gold Logie.
She has remained courageous and focused throughout. Her prize has always been pregnancy. While admitting that she has been on and off diets since she was 11 years old and that she has worn size 26 dresses, Swan has said the weight loss was never about her health, which she says is good, but about babies. Now Swan is set to be mother to three under four, we can only hope her limitless optimism and enthusiasm holds out for the insane ride ahead.
Originally published as Weighting game over for expecting Swan.
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