How much did Lucille Ball weigh when she was pregnant. She looked very heavy, despite the unflatteing maternity clothes she wore. I think she was close to 200 lbs.

Geez, since March, that is the most original question i've ever heard, and one of the few i dun't know the answer to, it's always said that she got big as an elephant but i dun't recall them ever mentioning a specific weight!

Actually she only weighed around 150 when she was pregnant. It is said that smaller women tend to blow up like balloons when they're pregnant. Who knows?

Gee thanks Mel, never knew that!

Originally posted by melluvslucy
Actually she only weighed around 150 when she was pregnant. It is said that smaller women tend to blow up like balloons when they're pregnant. Who knows?

Wow...makes some sense though. My mom weighed like 100 pounds before she got pregnant and gained like 30 pregnant.

Originally posted by melluvslucy
Actually she only weighed around 150 when she was pregnant. It is said that smaller women tend to blow up like balloons when they're pregnant. Who knows?
I think it is 153.:)

why do you think that it is 153? did you read it somewhere?

Originally posted by lucyfan1983
why do you think that it is 153? did you read it somewhere?
I'm not sure...I think I asked it on another board a long time ago.


Babalu;)

153 isn't very much, in an episode of the show she said she was
132 and she wasn't even pregnant. My guess is that she was
about 180lbs or so.

Originally posted by akirafan
153 isn't very much, in an episode of the show she said she was 132 and she wasn't even pregnant. My guess is that she was about 180lbs or so.

I think you were talking about the episode The Diet, which they said she was 132. But just because that was Lucy Ricardo's weight, it doesn't mean it was her weight in real life. But who knows.

So how much would be your guess, Ricardos4Ever?

Is it just me, or did she look a lot heavier than 132 in that episode? I'm guessing remaining baby weight was the culprit.

You're probably right, she looked heavier than Ethel in that episode. Probably 140lbs.

i always thought it was just padding, b/c she seemed pretty slimmed down during the cuban pete/sally sweet number at the end.

I don't think her arms and legs looked that heavy. Those maternity "tents" she wore were not too flattering. She was all baby.

Still, if it was only baby weight, it was a lot of baby weight.

She was in tent-like clothing, but she did gain an awful lot of
weight. She even said in an interview that she gained over
70lbs. That would make her almost 200lbs.
In response to what melluvslucy said when she posted ---"that
smaller women tend to blow up like balloons when they're
pregnant."---- This can apply to any woman, and it certainly
applied to Lucille Ball.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
Is it just me, or did she look a lot heavier than 132 in that episode? I'm guessing remaining baby weight was the culprit.

It's not just you, I've long thought she looked fat in those early episodes. I think she looked her best in during the first couple years of TLS, which was a vast improvement over the way she looked just a few years earlier during the last couple years of the hour shows.

Yep, I checked. It was 153!:)

If small little Kelly Rippa went to 200, i find it hard to believe statuesque Lucy only went to 153! Unless it was those tents she wore!

Little Kelly Ripa weighed 200lbs when she was pregnant, where
did you hear that? That's more than her husband weighs, and
he's like 6 feet tall!

Originally posted by Babalu
Yep, I checked. It was 153!:)

where'd you find it?

Kelly said it herself on the show a few days ago, she went up to 200 with her first child!

153lbs isn't much. I can lift 150lbs and I'm only 5'9" and not
very strong. If Lucy was that light I could have carried her
in my arms although she was nine months pregnant. Judging by
the way she looked in those episodes, she was a lot heavier.

I can't believe Kelly Ripa weighed 200lbs when she was
pregnant! Do you know where I can find pictures of her at
that time? I'd have to see this to believe it.

Originally posted by alexo451
153lbs isn't much. I can lift 150lbs and I'm only 5'9" and not
very strong. If Lucy was that light I could have carried her
in my arms although she was nine months pregnant. Judging by
the way she looked in those episodes, she was a lot heavier.

yeah i don't believe it myself, thats why I'm wondering where Babalu found this. especially if she weighed as much in real life as Lucy Ricardo did on ILL, which we found out in Lucy Tells the Truth that she weighed 133.

Originally posted by lucyfan1983

where'd you find it? It was Lucy In The Afternoon, I remember scanning thrpugh that and Love, Lucy before taking back to the library.

Kelly mentionned it on the show, but was embarrassed by the fact, so i doubt that there would be pictures, as she quits doing the show when she's preggars, even if there was, it would probably be two pictures anyway, one for the left side and one for . . .

Originally posted by Babalu
It was Lucy In The Afternoon

Wasn't that book pretty inaccurate?

Originally posted by akirafan
So how much would be your guess, Ricardos4Ever?

Well, it's not very proper to guess a women's weight! But I don't know, I was just saying that I doubt that the writers asked Lucille Ball what her weight was and then stuck it in the script as Lucy Ricardo's weight. Some people are really sensitive about their weight.

I can understand how some people may be sensitive about
their weight. But a pregnant woman should have nothing to be
ashamed of. Heavy pregnant women can be very beautiful.
Most doctors encourage a lot of weight gain during pregnancy anyway.

Nobody should worry about something as insignificant as their weight, it's what's inside the heart that matters! And i might not agree that there is something so beautiful as a pregnant woman's body, see photo of Demi Moore on that Vanity Fair cover, but it is the most beautiful thing in the world that the woman is giving life to another human being! The fact that they wanted to HIDE that in the 50's is another example of how slow we are to recognize what's beautiful and what's not. A skinny model who just threw up her last meal is not beautiful, a pregnant woman is!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
A skinny model who just threw up her last meal is not beautiful, a pregnant woman is!

Damn right!

I mean, let's look at the 50's. Our sex symbols were women like Marilyn Monroe, who wore like a size 12. Now anything above a 4 is fat. What happened??!!!

Originally posted by dawsongirl


Damn right!

I mean, let's look at the 50's. Our sex symbols were women like Marilyn Monroe, who wore like a size 12. Now anything above a 4 is fat. What happened??!!!

That's what I would like to know.

I have always LOVED a woman with meat on her bones, so dun't blame me! Maybe because i was always very skinny as a kid, i'm so happy i'm filled out now!

That's true about Marilyn Monroe. In "Some Like It Hot,"
one of her most famous movies, she was not only 3 months pregnant, but weighed about 150lbs. She was very attractive still, and even wore a bathing suit for the beach scenes.

That's what i like about her, she's very Reubenesque! Even if she had been old and fat, she exuded sexuality!

You have to admit, she did get really heavy.

I think its very symbolic that in the wake of woman's rights coming to the forefront, that in the last 10 years woman are striving to look smaller. It seems as if they are trying to disappear.

She was at least 200lbs. Back then doctors told women to gain
as much weight as they could.

Thanks for telling us that, Holly1701! BTW, welcome!

Don't mention it, and thank you.:)

You're welcome!

What's next ? Ricky, Fred or Ethel weight. ?

Doubt it, but I do think Lucy was heavier while pregnant than Ricky ever was.

Lucy was quite heavy. I think she was at least 180lbs.

Whatever her weight was, I think she stayed beautiful either way.

Really, I hope I will look as good as she did when I reach my 40's.

Definetly

I agree with matilda, she was at least 180.

When a woman is pregnant she's suppose to gain weight. It's the time we can and don't have to feel guilty about it ;)

And if you smoke, stop it while pregnant, like Lucy did!

my mother said before, that when they showed Lucy Ricardo as pregnant, her mother (my grandmother) thought it was "discusting" that they were showing a pregnant woman on TV! (she was "prudish" about those things)

My grandma who is a year older than Lucy and still alive by the way just told me how Lucy being pregnant on tv sort of embarrassed her. Things like that just weren't disgust then. Even married pregnant women didn't flaunt back then. So to have an obviously pregnant women on tv was just over the top. Boy, how times have changed!

And if you smoke, stop it while pregnant, like Lucy did!

Not just whilst pregnant - stop full stop!

This 'showing pregnant women is disgusting' attitude is almost impossible to understand these days. I really can't see what the problem was! I don't think it was as bad in the UK, although I might be wrong. There was quite a move for social realism after the war, and certainly in films there was no attempt to hide the pregnancy issue - although obviously the issue of how they came to be pregnant was completely glossed over! I suppose it's what pregnancy suggests that was the problem; the fact that in order to get that way they must have been up to something! All part of the same bizarre attitude that led to single beds for married couples on screen. :) Talk about juvenile...

Now women are wearing belly shirts while pregnant!
The whole single bed thing just cracks me up when I see it. Just knowing. Goodnight dear, and that's it.
You know, come to think of it I'm surprised they showed the bedroom at all. They couldn't show a toilet for goodness sakes!

OT I just heard when they filmed Gone With The Wind they had to pay a $5,000 fine for Rhett's imfamous line. "Frankly I don't give a d@mn.
Wow, now the "F" bomb is dropped all over the place in the movies.:eek:

Yes times have changed. In my grandmothers day, a young lady was covered up quite a bit. In my mothers day when one was expecting you did wear a drape shape outfit. I really said wow when I saw Demi Moore on a cover of a magazine with her tummy bulging out. I do think we have gone a bit too much forward. SOme of the rigs people wear. My my.
Oh I think Fred weight 160. Rick 150.. and Ethel 150. Lucy
about 140

Originally posted by ricardo/mertz
Now women are wearing belly shirts while pregnant!
The whole single bed thing just cracks me up when I see it. Just knowing. Goodnight dear, and that's it.
You know, come to think of it I'm surprised they showed the bedroom at all. They couldn't show a toilet for goodness sakes!

OT I just heard when they filmed Gone With The Wind they had to pay a $5,000 fine for Rhett's imfamous line. "Frankly I don't give a d@mn.
Wow, now the "F" bomb is dropped all over the place in the movies.:eek:

:lol: The F bomb. It's true though.

Dunno to be honest. It's used so much these days it's not the 'F Bomb' so much as the 'F Wet Squib'...

:wave:

Exactly, we hear it so much, it means nothing anymore, it's finally lost it's impact!

We'll have to make up some new words, like Fry and Laurie used to!

She was big. Close to 200 pounds easily.

Originally posted by CM_Burnadette
She was big. Close to 200 pounds easily.

Both her kids were big at birth. All that cuban food sure got somewhere else but her hips:lol:

All of that cuban food got somewhere else but her hips.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

No wonder they called Desi Jr. blubber bags! LOL! :lol:

Well she must have been eating alot of something, because she was huge. I don't know about Cuban food, lots of hot spices and pregnancy don't mix. Neither do all those beans (hit the deck!). :lol:

Originally posted by ginger12
Well she must have been eating alot of something, because she was huge. I don't know about Cuban food, lots of hot spices and pregnancy don't mix. Neither do all those beans (hit the deck!). :lol:

She may have had a supply of Maalox handy:lol: An old's wife tale says that if the baby has a lot of hair it causes stomach problems too; more than the spices on the Cuban food:)

Originally posted by CM_Burnadette
She was big. Close to 200 pounds easily.

I don't think she was 200 pounds. I know she got big, but Lucy herself said she gained around 30 pounds, which would probably have made her somewhere around 160 during her pregnancy. I think the "maternity outfits"...or tents...that she wore made her appear bigger than she actually was, too.

Originally posted by Barnabas1
No wonder they called Desi Jr. blubber bags! LOL! :lol:

I always liked how Lucy and Desi's nickname for Desi Jr. was "Thumper" (I think) when he was in the womb. :lol:

Originally posted by MagsLovesLucy
I always liked how Lucy and Desi's nickname for Desi Jr. was "Thumper" (I think) when he was in the womb. :lol:

Yes Mag; that was the nickname they gave him in the womb. Probably he was playing Babalu in there?:lol:

Originally posted by MagsLovesLucy
I don't think she was 200 pounds. I know she got big, but Lucy herself said she gained around 30 pounds, which would probably have made her somewhere around 160 during her pregnancy. I think the "maternity outfits"...or tents...that she wore made her appear bigger than she actually was, too.

It's amazing how maternity clothes have changed over the years. I'm glad I never got to wear a tent; no one would've been able to find me:lol:

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
It's amazing how maternity clothes have changed over the years. I'm glad I never got to wear a tent; no one would've been able to find me:lol: The ones today are about 100 times cuter than the ones I had 12 years ago even. (Coincidentally, my friend and I were looking at thenm today. They make maternity pants that don't even look like they're maternity. Dang. ;) )

You're certainly right about that, but occasionaly you see some beautiful star in an outfit that betrays their condition, Debra Messing was in the magazines this weekend and she looked it was a Lucy hand me down, and i agree Lucy was maybe 160 to 170, but not 200.

I saw Debra Messing on Ellen and she looked really good. You could hardly tell she was pregnant.

Yes, she looked sensational on that, but the magazines showed a terrible picture where she looked like she was about to explode.

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Yes, she looked sensational on that, but the magazines showed a terrible picture where she looked like she was about to explode.

Because probably she was?:lol:

No i think she still has some time left to not be able to pick up things.

Originally posted by SPLAIN
No i think she still has some time left to not be able to pick up things.

Still be able to shave her legs and see the tip of her toes?:lol:

Usually, the skinnier women are, the more they blow up like balloons when pregnant. And Messing is really skinny.

No kidding! So why does she stupidly always wear those dresses cut down to her navel when there's nothing there anyway, sometimes you see her bones showing. She is a GREAT actress and a beautiful woman, but she should learn to emphasize the good and diminish the bad, LOL!

Originally posted by ginger12
Usually, the skinnier women are, the more they blow up like balloons when pregnant. And Messing is really skinny.

Thanks for bringing back the memories of blowing up like a balloon:lol: I gained 40lbs but was underweight when I got pregnant; still had the balloon feeling. LOL

now as of 1-26 we will be going into the baby episodes on I love Lucy. I didn't care for those as much as I like many others. My brothers favorite is No Children Allowed. Ethel's speech about the Richardos is a gem.

What I enjoy the most about the pregnancy episodes are the musical numbers. 'Rock a bye baby','We are having a baby','Cheek to cheek', 'Sweet Adeline" and even the tippy toes of the English tutor:)

Lucy really looked huge in that episode when she couldn't get out of the chair. And it wasn't just because of the maternity outfit she was wearing.

Originally posted by balida
Lucy really looked huge in that episode when she couldn't get out of the chair. And it wasn't just because of the maternity outfit she was wearing.

The chair was a little narrow and mostly it was put there for the reason to make fun of a very real situation.

Are you saying it was too narrow or that she was too wide? :lol:

Originally posted by ginger12
Are you saying it was too narrow or that she was too wide? :lol:

Both;:lol: That way the pregnant ladies watching at home could relate and have a laugh at themselves:D At least I did

Me too. I bet she had to keep off those small chairs as well. Inherent danger of collapse. :lol:

LOL! That is hilarious.

Originally posted by holly1701
Me too. I bet she had to keep off those small chairs as well. Inherent danger of collapse. :lol:

Or getting stuck for a while :lol:

I don't think Lucy could have actually collapsed a chair. Even if she had reached 200 pounds when she was pregnant.

I dunno, Jim Brochu collapsed a few of Lucy Ball's chairs, how heavy was HE?

I guess you're right. Lucy looked a lot heavier than him when she was pregnant. She probably could have collapsed a chair. But wow, that would have been really embarrasing for her.

I don't think Lucy was absolutely "huge" she just looked like a normal healthy pregnant woman to me. I think she looked rather cute in her maternity clothes.:)

I was watching that Desilu Christmas special the other day and was surprised to see Carole Cook wearing that famous maternity TENT dress in one scene at the end.

Originally posted by akirafan
I guess you're right. Lucy looked a lot heavier than him when she was pregnant. She probably could have collapsed a chair. But wow, that would have been really embarrasing for her.

All that Cuban food and Spaghetti that Desi cooked for her sure made her big but happy:lol:

Originally posted by SPLAIN
I was watching that Desilu Christmas special the other day and was surprised to see Carole Cook wearing that famous maternity TENT dress in one scene at the end.
Wow, how big was Carole?? :eek:

Lemme put it this way, she probably folded it over three times to close it!

Thank goodness she didn't fill it! Was the show in color? Just wondering because I heard the dress was actually brown. :eek:

Carole wasn't that big. I saw one of the stage numbers she did on the Christmas special, she didn't really fill the dress, it drapes over her a lot. She looked like she was about 150 pounds, judging by the guy next to her.

Yeah Carole was never FAT, just perfect and round. No it was in black and white.

I saw Carole Cook this summer, and she's definitely a big woman, but she's not fat, you're right. She's very full and filled out, and certainly well endowed. ;) She's an absolute riot, too! :lol:

Yes she was THEN, and she still is NOW, Lucy knows how to pick 'em!

I doubt Lucy could have collapsed a chair by herself. Maybe Carole Cook and Lucy both pregnant and sitting on a chair would do it. That would be a heckuva lot of weight :lol:

Especially if Jim Brochu sat on THEM.

A friend of mine sat on my wicker rocking chair a couple years ago and fell right through! She only weighed 150 or so. (then she had the gall to blame it on my "cheap" chair! She didn't even offer to pay for it either or say she was sorry............but I digress, sorry)

She only weighed 150 or so.
You know, here we tend to talk about people's weight in stones... so I did one hell of a double take there...

:lol:

Hey now, this isn't 19th Century England, its lbs or nothing. lol

Oh so this girl that accepted a date with me Saturday, who said she was stoned at the time, it means she's heavy?

Woo Hoo, ya got a date? Good for you! (even if she is a little heavy!):eek:

Originally posted by Mickey
You know, here we tend to talk about people's weight in stones... so I did one hell of a double take there...

:lol:
So how big would that be in pounds??

But he's British, he'll give you the answer in metric tonnes!:lol:

Wanna hear my Canadian joke?

I had a friend named Miles who wanted to move to Canada but they were going to make him change his name to Kilometers, so he didn't move. :lol: :lol:

Is that okay? Since it isn't about the French canadians. :lol:

Originally posted by LODEE
So how big would that be in pounds??

14 stone = 1 pound... so 2100 pounds by my reckoning. Beyond that you're on your own. We have weird measurements in the UK. Anybody younger than around 40 has never learnt anything other than the metric system. Kilograms, metres, millimetres, kilometers - but we still measure height in feet and inches, distance in miles and weight in stones (except in cooking, when it's in ounces). I don't have a clue what any of it means - my mind deals only with metric measurements - but I'll be damned if I can estimate height in anything other than feet and inches. Nobody younger than forty knows what the hell Fahrenheit is all about either, though fortunately there are handy ways of converting between the two. I learnt Celsius and Kelvin. Bloody weather forecasters still talk about Fahrenheit! Only concession the younger generation has managed is finally stopping people talking about bloody shillings...



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I think that's the other way around since 1 Stone = 14 Pounds. But thats a really old fashioned measurement.

14 pounds=1 stone - that's what I meant! And yes, it's old fashioned! :)



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Thanks for the info. No wonder 150 lbs :eek: you! LOL, she's big, but she's not THAT big!

Lucy was a lot more than 150 when she was pregnant.

Originally posted by agatha2
Lucy was a lot more than 150 when she was pregnant.

Lucy was a tall woman. 150lbs+a pregnant woman her height it's ok. She looked fine

Yeah that TENT dress just made her look even more HUGE!

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
Lucy was a tall woman. 150lbs+a pregnant woman her height it's ok. She looked fine yeah, I agree. I weighed more than that and I was pretty thin to start with.

Originally posted by Lodee
yeah, I agree. I weighed more than that and I was pretty thin to start with.

I hope not thinner than me:eek: ; well I am probably shorter too;)

I'm 5'6'. I was about 120 or 125 when I got pregnant and :eek: about 50 lbs more at the end. Luckily it all came off afterward. (plus an extra 5 lbs. ) I would never gain that much again.

You should try it my way, i gained it like that but never did have a baby, it's called middle age!

Originally posted by Lodee
I'm 5'6'. I was about 120 or 125 when I got pregnant and :eek: about 50 lbs more at the end. Luckily it all came off afterward. (plus an extra 5 lbs. ) I would never gain that much again.

That's not bad Lodee:) .I'm only 5'3 and was WAY underweight and gained 40lbs. Now, I'm a little more in my range again.
Yes Claude and the KK don't help either :lol:

It's ok, i'm doing better, this cold has stopped me eating for a week now, so i've already lost like ten pounds, would you believe FIVE? I swear at least THREE!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
It's ok, i'm doing better, this cold has stopped me eating for a week now, so i've already lost like ten pounds, would you believe FIVE? I swear at least THREE!

Sorry that you are under the weather Claude:( Go watch the saddest documentary or something to help you with the sinuses:D

I'm only 5'3
That's not so bad. You're almost full-grown. :) I'm just kidding. :wave:

Originally posted by Lodee
That's not so bad. You're almost full-grown. :) I'm just kidding. :wave:

:lol: All I know is that my girls are going to be taller than me; I'll be the shortest in the house:D

Same here, only I have a son is why. Well I guess there could be someone taller if I got married again! :eek:

Originally posted by Lodee
Same here, only I have a son is why. Well I guess there could be someone taller if I got married again! :eek:

I pass on that one:) . I rather stay short but be the boss:lol:

Desilover, you can e married and still be the boss you know. :)

Originally posted by Lodee
Desilover, you can e married and still be the boss you know. :)

True; I would make a great boss! :D

Well see, there ya go then!:) :lol:

Originally posted by Lodee
Well see, there ya go then!:) :lol:

That won't make me change my mind:D

That won't make me change my mind
I'll get back to ya in about 10 years. by then you'll probably change your mind. :lol: Although maybe not. I don't think I'd ever change my mind either.:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Lodee
I'll get back to ya in about 10 years. by then you'll probably change your mind. :lol: Although maybe not. I don't think I'd ever change my mind either.:rolleyes:

In 10yrs I'll be almost 40yrs old; by then I'll be even worse! :lol:

Lodee, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you're a Republican, which is awesome because we Republicans ROCK! :D

Lodee, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you're a Republican
Did I make it too easy?:lol: I'm gonna guess you're one too. :)