Now, Iām going to preface this by saying that Iām certainly not the most observant person in the world and Iām that person who watches a tv show featuring a character who is highly observant and feel like I could be and should be doing better. Being simultaneously impressed by them (yes, I know itās a script) but also worried about not using my brain to the fullest of its capacity - whatever that is (maybe I am and Iām not that bright - also an option).
There are so many people on the internet that come to so many conclusions based on seemingly nothing so I donāt get how they arenāt able to do the same thing based on what they can see. Like:
1. The fact that every time Catherine steps out, there is almost always a guarantee that sheāll touch her stomach in a self-soothing gesture on more than one occasion. Significantly more than she ever did as a publicly thrice-pregnant person (you know, when a lot of normal people do heavily touch their stomachs). Itās certainly not something she did that often prior to last year. It is public knowledge that she had major abdominal surgery, found out she had cancer after the results of that surgery came out (so itās very likely that her cancer was close, if not exactly, in that region).
2. Sheās not back to her pre-cancer weight.
3. Has yet to do a single physically tasking engagement since last year. Which, for another person, I wouldnāt count but FOR HER - if you know even the slightest bit about her hobbies, lifestyle and engagement types - is quite telling.
4. She does look extremely tired sometimes while out at public engagements even if all sheās done at them is sit, listen and walk. Sometimes even before she's done those things.
5. Sheās doing a lot of repeating and patterned things in terms of dressing. Yes, sheās always been that way inclined but itās undeniable that itās at an increased frequency - with her largely choosing to be even more covered up than before.
Itās like last year when I was baffled at other people not having guessed cancer or some serious illness but were guessing everything from divorce, abuse, tummy tucks to bad hairstyles. Itās like, yes, for the most part, she looks healthy but if youāre in this space, Iād personally like to know how some people came to the conclusion that sheās back to normal because, to me, there are so many signs that sheās not (and probably wishes every day that she was).
By the way, I never thought that she was back to normal because Iāve spent too much time on cancer forums and have had one-on-one experience with various members of my family but Iām also not immune to thinking āKate is backā sometimes and then I observe something that brings me back to reality. A great example being her solo trip to Wales this year. She looked great, she sounded like herself and all was well. Then she decided to get out of her car and run to a little girl who had been shouting her name from a distance. She did what one would assume would be instinctive for her and something Iāve seen her do before. She started lightly running but stopped very soon afterwards. And touched her stomach. Not once, but twice. Going as far as to cover her stomach with her coat and two hands the second time. Like I said, I would not have thought twice about another kind of person doing that. But this is Kate āseems to generally do well in most sports/might have been a professional athlete in another lifeā Middleton. Hell, even she thought that she could run the tiny distance without slightly wincing and needing to stop and she clearly couldnāt. And itās an image that has stayed in my brain for months.
Why isnāt it clicking that she is largely operating on half, if not less sometimes, of what she was prior to the start of 2024?
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