Please note this article was written with tongue-firmly-in-cheek and full acknowledgement of these being very #firstworldproblems.

Related: Eight ways to catch up with your friends that don’t involve ‘Christmas lunch’.

The drinks situation. It’s a struggle.

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Don’t expect a delicious feast.

The best Christmas pop culture viewing.

Elf

Four Holidays

Friends

How I Met Your Mother

Love Actually

The Simpsons

Mean Girls.

The Office

Orange is the New Black

The Big Bang Theory

Community

Home Alone

The Holiday

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Hog the stuff youcaneat with your life.

Feel smug when the “food baby” conversation comes up.

Celebrities during pregnancy

Blake Lively

Duchess Catherine

Princess Charlene of Monaco

Duchess Catherine

Sonia Kruger