This blog was written in request to one of my awesome mommy followers!
I'm quite honestly really tired of seeing these images of celebrities who have had babies and had surgery right after associated with "snap back". These "build-a-body" women are selling dreams that just are not true for many women and its really disheartening.
These celebrities are honestly walking ads for plastic surgeons. Not all women snap back to their natural size days after giving birth and that is just the honest truth. Also, before moving further I'd just like to say I am not a woman who was skinny and then got fat after having a child. I personally was about 150 lbs. before i had my daughter and my height is about 5'5. During my pregnancy I reached 230 lbs and 7 months after my daughter I am 165 lbs, I am happy and comfortable here. I would just like to tone up my tummy. Thats not a woman who was skinny and then got fat talking.
While starting my mission of trying to get back to a size I was more comfortable with it was a bit annoying seeing all these images of what "snap back" should look like and the over emphasis that is put on "snap back all together". I'm just tired, tired, tired of society and social media telling me what I should and shouldn't be doing with my body. Honestly, the one thing we can truly control in life is what we physically do to our bodies and I for one do not want to hear anyone's opinion. Some women don't go back down to their original weight weeks or months after giving birth. This push of "snap back" on us millennial moms is mentally damaging and draining.
Just to be super clear this is to no shade to the moms that naturally pop back really fast! Kudos to you booboo!! I just don't like the pressure society is putting on women who just pushed a whole person out of their body, to pop back to the size she was before she was pregnant or close to. These images are what is encouraging women to undergo unnecessary surgeries in attempts to keep up with what is considered beautiful and sexy in today age. The fact that they actually have a plastic surgery package called the "Mommy make over" is so sad.
“ 7 weeks #postpartum. Some #pregnant women after giving birth no longer have a belly after 7 weeks. While others it may take a little longer. Me, I’m the latter. I remember after giving birth to Cree, my belly didn’t all of a sudden go flat. I did have a C-Section, (as well as with my second pregnancy) and I thought something was wrong with me. I had seen in magazines the many women on the beach a few weeks #postpartum in a two piece. To be honest, it had to take time for me to embrace my new body. With this second pregnancy, I now have embraced that fact that I’ve housed a human being. A miracle. A life. If it takes a while for me to get back to my normal self, than so be it. This.is.me. And I love me. ❤️ ” -Tia Mowry
I am a feminist before anything! So I totally support that some women may feel that they want to get plastic surgery. That is your right and your business but its a different thing when women are feeling like they have to get plastic surgery to keep up and be considered beautiful in today's society. I wish more celebrities would post honest images and stop putting up a front! Its like you already made it and your famous so people will always love and admire you. Why keep up the facade?
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