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Kate Middleton might have presented British athletes with top honors at the Sports Personality Year Awards on Sunday, but she wins the award for Going Above and Beyond the Call of Early Pregnancy Duty. She fought off a two week bout of wingardium leviosa hyperemesis gravadarum and still managed to shine next to David Beckham at the televised event. Granted, she was wearing the most elegant "maternity wear" of all time: The bell-sleeved silk crepe Alexander McQueen gown in green. [Grazia]