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Two pregnant women sit at a dimly lit bar, one smoking a cigarette, under warm pendant lights.

Two pregnant women sit at a dimly lit bar, one smoking a cigarette, under warm pendant lights.

Two pregnant women with long blonde hair sit side by side at a mid-century bar, their posture relaxed but not quite mirrored—one sits straighter, the other leans slightly back, elbow draped over the stool’s edge. One wears a sleek white knit midi dress that clings elegantly to her rounded belly, paired with black suede knee-high boots crossed neatly beneath the bar stool. Beside her, the other wears the same dress in black, styled more casually, with caramel suede boots planted apart in a looser stance. A tailored plaid trench hangs off the shoulder of the woman in white, while the woman in black has her camel trench shrugged off completely, draped over the back of her stool. Their long, manicured fingers—both tipped in immaculate French polish—lift cigarettes to their lips, though not in unison; one flicks ash into the dimness while the other holds hers midair, smoke curling slowly above them and blending into the warm amber light of the globe pendant lamps overhead. Their expressions are unreadable but magnetic, eyes fixed in slightly different directions, as if reacting to separate details in the same unfolding moment. Around them, the bar hums softly with low conversation and vinyl crackle, brass fixtures gleaming against dark walnut. They are a tableau of quiet power and contradiction—maternal yet defiant, intimate yet untouchable. A moment suspended in time: stylish, enigmatic, and unapologetically self-possessed. See more