Both art and giving birth deal with the act of creation, so maybe it's not a surprise that some pregnant ladies -- including Mariah Carey -- want to celebrate their nine months with child in an artistic manner.
And artists like Houston-based body painter Vonetta Berry find a round belly the perfect surface for certain types of artistic creations.
"The first belly I painted was my own," she told HuffPost Weird News. "My first instinct is that, since it's round, I should do something round. But I wanted to play with shades and make a flat surface design look by using shades."
Berry gets as much as $700 for her belly-busting works of art, each of which takes between three and five hours to create, depending on how elaborate a design is used.
"I get a lot of requests for flowers," she said. "Sometimes, a mother wants me to paint what they think the baby might look like. One woman showed me a picture of a gritty ultrasound photo and wanted me to reproduce it in color."
However, her favorite belly painting was from a woman who wanted her to paint a kitchen appliance on her tummy.
"The woman wanted an oven with a little bun inside," she laughed.
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