Comments on: “How I Got My Body Back”

By: Getting it Back… sort of. « Ad Imaginem Dei

Getting it Back… sort of. « Ad Imaginem Dei — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:09:50 +0000

[...] 28, 2008 Others in the fatosphere have been writing (here, and here- if not elsewhere) about the odd language applied to women after childbirth: [...]

By: laurajeanette

laurajeanette — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:27:01 +0000

Another note on the topic. After Jamie Pressley had her baby, she said something to the extent of she was “encouraged” to get back to her pre-baby size before starting work on “My Name is Earl.” Not all of them do it just because they’re vain. They do it because they’ll loose their jobs if they don’t. Hollywood actresses, even the already thin ones, are told to lose weight before they start shooting all the time. You’d do it too if your livelihood depended on it. So we should be attacking the higher ups who insist that they be this way, not just the women themselves.

By: hope505

hope505 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:21:55 +0000

…trying to eliminate that evidence is like saying that giving birth wasn’t important. Your child isn’t important….
I am childless by choice. With regard to women who do choose to get pregnant and give birth…I would guess that it isn’t unusual for the new mother to want her body to…I dunno…”recover” somewhat from its changes during pregnancy, no? But I wouldn’t say that negates the importance of the child itself…

By: Bacon's Mom

Bacon's Mom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:11:17 +0000

And you know, it’s very rare to get your body “back” – once you’ve been through a pregnancy, nothing’s the same. You have a new body, one that’s brought a person into the world – trying to eliminate that evidence is like saying that giving birth wasn’t important. Your child isn’t important.

By: bobkatz26

bobkatz26 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:47 +0000

If I had enough money to pay for personal chefs and personal trainers, I could have “MY” body back too! Too bad I’m not wealthy enough to have my own body. Guess I”ll have to share with someone else??? Any offers?

By: Aerika McCants

Aerika McCants — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:33:07 +0000

The tabloids are misleading to so many women. There is not ONE simple thing you can do to get your body back to a pre-pregnancy state. Some women have a difficult time losing all the weight while others walk out the hospital looking as if they have never had a child. I think we should focus on being healthy after birth and worry less about wearing a particular size.

By: hope505

hope505 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:58 +0000

If Everyone’s all concerned with the effects of pregnancy on the female anatomy, why doesn’t Everyone just adopt instead? Plenty of kids to go around…and you get to “keep your body”! *haha!*

By: lifestartsnow

lifestartsnow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:47:24 +0000

sick, sad and pathetic. it almost seems like that in the first months after giving birth, the body and weight is more important than the baby.

i don’t get it why at a time of their life when these women could be so proud at what their bodies have produced, when they could have pride in themselves, their body, their look and yes, their weight, they go run to the next fitness coach/surgeon/you name it to look like nothing ever happened.

franzi

By: jamboree

jamboree — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:15:19 +0000

I, too, don’t understand the desire to erase the existence of my children from my body…. these stretch marks and c-section scar, they are part of me, just as my growing children are part of me. They are distinct and daily reminders of my life as I chose it, so why would I want to change that?

My body has *always* been my body, in all of it’s stages of growth.

By: laurajeanette

laurajeanette — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:16 +0000

I know. The pressure is now seeping into not only getting your pre-pregnancy body back but also not losing it in the first place. As for most pregnant celebs in the mags, you wouldn’t know they were pregnant if not for the belly. Some of them don’t even look pregnant, like Nicole Kidman. She never looked more than a few months pregnant, even just before the baby was born. Scary!