2. Salma Hayek
The Oscar-nominee had gestational diabetes, which happens during pregnancy, while expecting her daughter, Valentina. Hayek has a family history of diabetes. Experts say all women should get checked for gestational diabetes when they are 24-28 weeks pregnant. Those at risk for type 2 diabetes are checked at their first prenatal visit. Gestational diabetes usually goes away after delivery, but it could return with a later pregnancy. It can also make you more likely to get type 2 diabetes later on. While it’s treatable, women who have it run a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to Mayo Clinic.
Salma Hayek, in an interview earlier, had talked about why she wished she did not have fruits with high sugar content when she was pregnant with her daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault. “If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t eat so much fruit at the beginning. I didn’t know that eating fruit that is high in sugar is not recommended when you have gestational diabetes,” she was quoted as saying. In case of gestational diabetes, pregnant women should ideally have a combination of watery and less-sweetened fruits.