I wrote about celebrity moms last week and their race back to hot pre-baby bods here…and how a BABY team can make it a much easier transition than for the rest of us regulars. Well, looky-looky what I found on MSNBC.com:
Elaine Schoch once loved nothing more than spending her Sunday mornings flipping through the “mind-numbing” celebrity-filled pages of Us Weekly.Then something happened: her daughter Samantha, born Feb. 4, 2008.
“I decided to subscribe right before I had my baby so I could still read the gossip every weekend,” says Schoch, a 31-year-old public relations maven from Denver. “But then I just got depressed. They’d have all these beautiful pictures of Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie and they’d be talking about how they lost all their baby weight. It made me feel bad about myself. So I canceled my subscription.”
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Kristyn Wilson, a 30-year-old media relations specialist from Columbus, Ohio, who gave birth to son, Jack, 10 months ago, says she’s had it up to here with stars and their instantaneously streamlined bodies.
“Pushing women to lose so much weight and lose it so quickly when you’re just trying to figure out how to be a mom and balance your life is mean and unfair,” says Wilson. “It puts undue pressure on women and promotes an unfair image to husbands who think ‘If Christina Aguilera can get her body back so quickly, why can’t my wife?’”
Read the entire article here. Here’s a video for you fab folks who would rather not read:
Its gets no easier being a woman….but I refused to be depressed by comparing my life/body/well-being to someone else…I am fab!
Keep it strictly stylish!
