Woman With Prosthetic Leg Creates New Maternity-Photo Category

When Christa Couture realised maternity pics of mums-to-be with disabilities were scarce, she started making her own...
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A woman with a prosthetic leg was motivated to have a maternity photoshoot, after struggling to find pictures of mums-to-be who have disabilities.

Christa Couture, from Toronto, Canada, had to have her leg amputated when she was a teenager because she had bone cancer.

"I have rolled my eyes at the cliché of maternity photos, but I must admit, I have also longed for the opportunity to have them taken," Couture wrote in an article for CBC. "I've viewed that kind of photoshoot as a cultural rite of passage.

"The trouble is, I struggled to imagine my own maternity photos, when I couldn't find any examples of them with a body like mine. I only have one leg."

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Christa Couture couldn't find any examples of maternity shoots that showed a body like hers.
Jen Squires