Too posh to push: Celebrity C-sections#

Caesarean section used to be an emergency medical procedure, but when society got wind of celebs doing it, that newfound interest may have helped make it popular. Here's a selection of some of the more famous moms who opted not to push, for reasons medical and non-medical.

Compiled by Daniel Martins

Spring 2007   

	Victoria Beckham Posh Spice might not have been the first, but the 1999 C-section birth of her first son, Brooklyn, was the unofficial start of the "too posh to push" trend. She claims that the C-section for Brooklyn and her two other children were medically necessary, but she's widely regarded as having had them done to preserve her famously skinny figure.
	Anna Nicole Smith The former playmate went with an elective C-section, taped the operation and had it aired on Entertainment Tonight. She claimed her doctors told her the baby would be too big to deliver vaginally, but when her daughter Daniellyn was born, she was below average weight.
	Britney Spears Spears said she wanted to have her first child, Sean Preston, by elective C-section after her mom warned her about the pain of vaginal birth. Rumour has it she wanted to schedule the C-section birth of her second son, Jayden James, to coincide with Sean Preston's birthday, but husband Kevin Federline persuaded her to move the date forward.
	Angelina Jolie Jolie went all the way to Namibia to have her baby, delivered by C-section due to breech presentation. She brought along her own obstetrician and was helped out by staff at a local hospital where she gave birth. Then she sold the rights to the first pictures of her daughter, Shiloh, for a record $10 million, which she donated to charity.