- [Avalon] Pregnant women running, please be careful.
- This is not good.
- They were talking about me.
- This is kind of bringing up a lot of bad memories for me.
- Three people totally rejected me.
I need help, too.
I do have to pee.
- Coming through.
That was pretty wild.
- This is my baby, you back up.
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Today, we are going to be doing
teen versus adult pregnancy bellies
and just seeing how people react.
- So I was actually a teen when I was pregnant,
so this experience is very personal for me.
I remember going to Walmart or Target late at night
just to avoid people
because it was just a shameful experience.
- In middle school, I had about two friends
that actually had to leave school
because they were pregnant.
They weren't treated very well.
Kids made stories about them.
They weren't uplifted or supporting in any way.
- Do you think people are going to treat you differently
than they'll treat me?
Now that I'm older, I have a wedding ring on?
- I'm kind of nervous.
I'm actually very nervous because I know the reality
of the matter is, it's not all kind and loving.
- We have some fake bellies
that'll make us both look seven months pregnant.
If people run into you,
you're gonna say you're seven months.
- [Avalon] Seven months.
- [Krista] First baby.
- [Avalon] First baby.
And if they ask me if I have a husband, no.
I don't need one either.
- We're first gonna go into a baby clothing store
and kind of see A, if people talk to us,
B, how the store associate treats us,
and just see if there's any differences or similarities.
- And next, we are going to go
to a more higher-end maternity clothing store.
And we're going to see how the store associate treats us.
We'll be in there at the same time.
- We are going to do a door challenge
where we're gonna see if people help us out.
Are they gonna open the door for us?
Are they gonna open the door more for one of us?
And then, in general, we're just gonna capture
how people react to us.
Strangers walking by and different things
and kinda see how it makes us feel.
- Putting on our spy vision goggles.
(popping)
Jeez, what was that?
- You said your preggo craving is mayonnaise?
- Mayonnaise, mayonnaise.
- I feel like I just keep rubbing my belly.
- Me, too.
Do they like to be tickled?
Can they feel this?
Pregnant woman here, I need help.
Bathroom?
- Bathroom.
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- So I just walked out of the store,
and I wasn't greeted at all, I wasn't smiled at,
and it was kind of odd
because normally, I would be, I would be.
- I was pleasantly greeted, like, very friendly,
asked if I needed help or anything.
- So I'm in another store, and yet again, I was not greeted.
And I even made eye contact with the people who work here,
and they didn't smile at me.
- We had different experiences.
- Yeah, which I didn't expect.
They greet her right away.
And like, I didn't get greeted, and I made eye contact
with both of the people that were working there,
and neither of them really acknowledged me
or smiled at me at all.
- So I mean, was it a fluke?
Maybe, but also, maybe not.
- Yeah.
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- [Associate] We got this in extra small.
- [Krista] Okay.
- [Associate] Wow, that's really, really small.
You probably need extra small or smaller.
Would you like some chocolate panini?
- [Krista] I think I'm good for right now.
Okay.
- [Associate] This is our sale rack over here,
so you might find something interesting there.
- [Avalon] Can I try these on?
- [Associate] Yes.
- So this is kind of bringing back
all of those old feelings, all of those old emotions
that I experienced just kind of watching Avalon.
And I hate that I have to look back on my pregnancy
and feel that way.
- Interesting experience.
- That was pretty wild. - Yeah.
- So Avalon went in first, and she was greeted.
But then the second that I walked in,
she kind of left Avalon. - Totally.
- And was like, attending to me.
- She said she kept an eye on me.
- She did.
Like, so, when you were walking,
I noticed she kept going like that.
Whenever I was getting ready to turn into the fitting room,
she looked at you like, maybe she was going to help you,
but then she went.
- She also mentioned the clearance rack to me.
She's like, here's some items in the clearance rack
which you might like, you might wanna look at.
Very condescending.
It was also like, these are clothes
for the more business woman, more sleek.
I can be a business woman, too.
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Not that I'm expecting the door to be open for me,
but those three people totally rejected me
and didn't even care.
- And someone literally stepped out.
Maybe I'm just getting a nicer person,
but somebody literally opened the door
and held it open for me.
So this is not good.
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(cheering)
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(groaning)
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- So we just went makeup shopping in this store behind me,
and there were more employees
than I have ever seen in my life.
I know how it goes.
People like, rush up to you to help you.
Not one person helped me.
And even if like, I looked at them and smiled,
they just smiled back.
They didn't say, how can I help you?
They kept buddy-buddying up.
And this is, I don't wanna overdramatize things,
but literally, buddy-buddying up,
talking to each other, and looking at me
like they were talking about me.
- What kind of reactions have you been getting so far?
- Very judgmental.
- I feel like it's been a little different for me.
I don't know if it's the combination
of me having a ring on or that I clearly look older,
but I feel like people are genuinely nice,
or I'm not getting any weird looks.
Like those looks I experienced the 10 years ago,
I'm not getting now.
I think we learned a lot of interesting things.
- Absolutely, more than expected.
- [Krista] So when we went into the kids' clothing store.
- I thought it was a normal shopping experience
until both of you guys went in
and were automatically greeted,
when I was not greeted once at all.
And that happened in all the other stores, too.
Even me being a teen, like, I usually always get help.
- [Krista] So when we went into the maternity store,
I thought that was where we really started
to see some like, big differences.
You just had to walk yourself back
to the fitting room and ask, right?
- Yeah, she was the one who initiated it for you.
Would you like to try things on?
Let's go.
- 'Cause I'm just sensitive to it
'cause I remember being in your shoes.
So the door experiment was very interesting.
It legitimately is people are just in their own world.
- It is a thing to think about
to maybe focus outward at times.
I think the main look that I got,
especially from women, were kinda like, mm.
Like, sad, poor thing.
- Be kind, I feel like is what it comes down to.
And you never know what someone's going through.
They're a teen, or maybe they're older
and they're going through a really tough time,
and something else personal happens.
- As we left our bellies up,
lift those who hold the bellies up.
- Are you ready to take your belly off?
- No.
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