LST FAVES: Kicking Ass While Pregnant

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When Marvel asked Dennis Hopeless to create a new story for Spider-Woman, he knew he wanted her to be pregnant. In this episode, he explains why. And we hear from his wife Jessie, the real-life superhero behind Spider-Woman. ⭐️ This episode originally ran on February 29, 2016 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with a brand new episode. … Episode resources • Buy Mom tattoos designed by Jessie Hopeless for Mother’s Day! And check out all our other cool merch. • See panels from Dennis Hopeless’s Spider-Woman series on our website, including drawings of a pregnant Spider-Woman… … Sponsors (using our links supports the show!) • Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! • Follow us on Instagram • Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media • Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!) • Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Hilary Frank. Here at The Longest Shortest Time, we cover all kinds of stories about
0:06.0	parenthood and reproductive health. And we talk about kids of all ages. But when I started the show
0:12.2	16 years ago, I had just had a baby. So we've got a lot of stories about babies, and they are
0:18.8	some of my favorites. In fact, I love them so much. I'm going to be
0:22.7	airing one of those baby episodes from the archive every other week, and in between those,
0:27.7	you'll get a brand new episode. Don't worry, you don't need to have a baby or any kids of your
0:33.5	own to enjoy these stories. Happy listening.
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1:08.0	This is the longest shortest time. I'm Hilary. Today on the show, we've got the story
1:13.5	of an incredible mom, a woman with an insanely demanding job and no partner, a woman who powers
1:20.6	through childbirth under extreme emergency circumstances, really the most extreme you can imagine,
1:26.9	all while saving the world from evil
1:29.6	scrolls.
1:31.0	I'm talking about Spider-Woman.
1:33.2	She's a Marvel superhero, best known recently for her role in the Avengers comics.
1:38.4	Yep, that's the Avengers theme playing right now, though her character was not in the movie.
1:43.4	Spider-Woman now stars in a new Marvel series.
1:46.4	It's their first title character to be pregnant.
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