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Ah, the things you know to be true before having children. I knew my kids would never watch TV, they would eat everything I lovingly prepared from organic ingredients, and I knew?beyond a shadow of a doubt?that women who got cosmetic procedures were miserable and obviously hated themselves. I pitied them for not loving who they were. Well, as they say, you never know until you know, and boy, was I mistaken. It took having kids to find out everything I thought about people who want cosmetic surgery was wrong.
I have always loved taking selfies, and I have always been really body-positive, accepting my belly, chubby thighs and flat bum?I love them all! I?ve had three kids in four years and I’m generally very happy with how I look. But lately I?ve encountered some postpartum body issues that have made it hard for me to have the confidence I should in my day-to-day life. My biggest (ha!) complaint is that my bust has gone from a large-ish one to one so big that I cannot do a push-up or comfortably carry my kids in my arms. I?ve also been thinking long and hard about? my eyebrows. Pregnancy and postpartum hormones, combined with all the over-plucking I did in the ?90s, have decimated my eyebrows. I have now spent 20 years drawing them on, over and over again, every single day.
Now, you?d think that as a feminist, I would be devoted to a ?plastic surgery is bad and it’s anti-woman? stance, but I?ve definitely realized that it?s not about hating m...