She’s knocked up, they’re locked up.
After working at a maximum security men’s prison in California for nearly a decade, Bella Aguilar bumped into in a situation that made working extremely “uncomfortable” and “depressing”.
The brunette had become pregnant.
“It’s just not a very nice place to work.” I mean, we all know why – it’s a prison,” Aguilar, 27, a married mother of one, who is now 40 weeks pregnant with a baby boy, told Caters News.
“I felt like sometimes when you’re pregnant you can already feel a little down,” she said, “because you don’t feel like yourself.”
The millennial mom-to-be, who held the title of maintenance supervisor as well as health and safety coordinator at the prison since she was 20, gave social media fans a viral insight into her struggles daily life as a pregnant woman working among criminals.
“Welcome to the morning routine of someone who absolutely doesn’t like their job,” Aguilar moaned in a trending TikTok post dedicated to her unglamorous pre-work routine.
His duties include waking up at dawn, getting ready, making a “sad lunch,” then taking an hour-long hike to the penitentiary grounds in the morning darkness.
In a separate clip, Aguilar lamented the pain of trying to hide her protruding belly in baggy clothing while adhering to work uniform policies.
“I can’t stand…the dress,” she groaned. “You can’t wear blue jeans, sweats, leggings, yoga pants (or) anything like that.”
“Yoga pants, leggings, sweats, they’re a pregnant woman’s best friends,” the fruitful fox said of the tight bottoms. “Wearing maternity pants one size (too) large is so ugly.”
Aguilar told Caters she first tried to hide her bun in the oven while she was at work. She feared that the appearance of her changing body would attract unwanted attention from the wards.
“I’m very short, five feet two inches tall and I look very young,” she said. “So just being a young, pregnant girl in a men’s prison is just going to get you a certain look, at least for a moment.”
However, despite the big-bellied beauty’s best efforts to hide her mommy body, Aguilar’s size ended up outweighing the disguises.
“I got to the point where I couldn’t hide it anymore and that’s when we really reduced contact with the inmates,” the surrogate said, adding that she didn’t come into contact with the inmates. contact with approximately 65 prisoners only twice a week.
Yet she said even the briefest interactions with the convicts became “just uncomfortable.”
Kendra Capalbo, 46, a former social worker at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institution, experienced similar stomach-ache sensations during her tenure at the maximum security prison.
“Hearing the details of their crimes,” Capalbo said, “especially those involving women and children, and the reasons many of them gave for their behavior, made it difficult to trust.”
Correctional officers at Rikers Island, New York, said they were verbally, physically and almost sexually assaulted by inmates.
Aguilar was fortunate not to encounter any “disrespect” from the jailers. But she says the threat of violence has always been present.
“We all know that in general in prison there is always a risk of danger,” she said. “It’s full of prisoners who have done horrible things.”
“However, I didn’t particularly feel like a target because I was pregnant,” Aguilar added. “I just felt like I was being watched more and it’s already an uncomfortable environment as a woman in general, plus being pregnant.”
Aguilar became extremely distressed. She eventually left this troubling position and is now pursuing a career in beauty content creation.
“Working in a place like that, for me personally, was extremely depressing and hard on my mental health,” she said. “Now that I no longer work there, I can say that I am mentally much happier.”
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