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Obese and Expecting

UK PREMIERE ONE-OFF THURSDAY 12TH JULY 9.00PM

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Maria, Alissa, Denise, and Jeanette are four mums- to-be with an increasingly common problem: morbid obesity. Filmed at hospitals across America, hour-long documentary Obese and Expecting follows them through their pregnancy struggles and charts their hopes of delivering healthy babies. The cameras go inside the women's homes and lives as their relationships with their husbands, parents, friends and children bear the brunt of this emotionally and physically exhausting process. We follow the women from their first consultation, through their pregnancy and the birth itself and up until they leave hospital with their babies. These women are challenging the perception - and the odds - of obese pregnancies, as they become mothers, no matter their size or complications.