Exclusive | Were models and expecting mamas our growing bellies wont stop us from walking the catwalk

Andrea Konovalske’s modeling journey to New York Fashion Week came with a small bump in the road. Her baby bump. “I was extremely excited to be chosen to walk during NYFW, [but] I was accepted prior to finding out I was pregnant with baby No.3,” Konovalske, 34, an expecting mom of two and a rising runway model, told The Post. She and her incoming infant made their fashion week debut for ethereal label Homespun Heart in September. “Having a baby in my belly was, honestly, the most comforting part of the experience,” said Konovalske. A newbie to the city’s most stylish soiree, the married millennial is in the growing number of modeling mommies-to-be to crush the catwalk and work the camera during pregnancy. But hot mamas like Konovalske aren’t doing it in maternity duds.

They’re taking the floor in haute couture. Stomping their 6-inch heels into antiquated notions that a woman’s lot is to be “barefoot and pregnant” in the kitchen, pro pinups are proving that motherhood is not the end of a model’s career — the widening changes to their physiques notwithstanding. Instead, it’s the beginning of a new era of inclusivity in high fashion. Bulging bellies and newborn babies have dominated designer spaces since the dawn of the year. Maddie Moon hit Collina Strada’s ready-to-wear runway at 32 weeks pregnant during NYFW in February. Turning heads tummy-first, the model — who welcomed a baby girl, Ocean, in March — lauded the avant-garde experience as “surreal.”“How beautiful is it that I will get to show my daughter this one day.We did this together,” Moon, 32, an NYC couturier, told The Post.

“It was empowering.”The knockout, who inked a deal with Ford Models in 2001 at age 9, went on to praise Hillary Taymour, founder and creative director of Collina Strada, for spotlighting belles with buns in the oven. “Hillary and [photographer Charlie Engman] set the theme [for the show] as ‘Stronger,’ which completely r...