Pregnant or Piling on the Pounds?

March 11, 2008 — -- Accused by the tabloids of "piling on the pounds" and taking up her late father's unhealthy lifestyle, Lisa Marie Presley is pushing back, confirming her third pregnancy and berating the media for prying into her private life.

"After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant," Presley wrote in a blog entry entitled "Confirmation under the gun" March 6.

Presley, who says she's "mortified," wrote, "It is unfortunate that I couldn't have announced something that is this much of a blessing and that has made us so incredibly happy under better circumstances."

But did the media really ruin a typically private moment for 40-year-old Presley, or does the fact that her father is Elvis Presley and her ex-husbands include Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage make any pregnancy speculation fair game?

"It's unfortunate how [Presley] was put in a position where she had to come out and confirm her pregnancy," said PR guru Lizzie Grubman. "She had to confirm it. To be name-called is downright mean and to then to be compared with her father. They scrutinized her entire family. You can't blame her for wanting to set the record straight."

Like Presley, Grubman was forced to confirm her pregnancy in 2006 after paparazzi photographed her rapidly gaining weight. Grubman told ABCNEWS.com that she gained 110 pounds during her pregnancy, more than twice the size of her typical 95-pound frame.

"You just never know what can happen to an unborn child -- there's a reason people try to keep pregnancies private," said Grubman. "It's obvious when celebrities are pregnant, so why are we pushing and pushing and prying and prying? There's no reason for it."

"Yes, she's a public figure but guess what -- it's not about her, it's about the unborn child," added Grubman.