Elizabeth, Cattle Rancher
Elizabeth, Cattle Rancher, Paul Wellman, 2011
“A lot of people didn’t know I was pregnant. Not that I was hiding it—I just wanted to focus on work. I sell my beef at a farmers’ market where I know many people, and it’s hard to talk about your pregnancy with every single person: ‘I’m doing well today,’ ‘I’m doing well today,’ ‘I’m doing well today.’ So I saved it until I was about seven months. Until then, I wore a big coat and stood behind a large table with all our beef on it. People were more interested in the beef than the belly.”
-Elizabeth, Cattle Rancher