Flaunting their pregnancies, mothers-to-be in the city of Jilin, in Jilin Province, are having their pictures taken in bikinis and see-through dresses.

Pregnant ladies stand in line to show the cartoon figures on their abdomens during a contest of colored drawing for pregnant mothers at a hospital in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan province, Monday, July 23, 2007. [Xinhua]

While posing for the pictures, some of the women have pictures painted on their bellies while others let their husbands scribble on them.

"Mostly born in the late 1970s or the early 1980s, these women have never missed an opportunity to show off their natural beauty, even when they're pregnant," a cameraman said.