Revealing photos of ?mom bods? is a trend we should all get behind
When I was growing up, my mom often told me that after I was born, she swiftly returned to her pre-baby silhouette. So quickly did she look like her old self?petite, gamine?that a neighbour, seeing my mom wearing a sundress and pushing a pram with a baby in it, joked that I must have been adopted. Surely, this was meant as a high compliment. When we?re pregnant, we?re celebrated for our roundness, for our bloom-of-life sensuality, but as soon as we?ve given birth, we?re expected to immediately look as if we?d never been pregnant in the first place. The adoption incident with the neighbour was in the late ?70s, but the cultural pressure to return to pre-baby form, to wear the hell out of a bikini a few months postpartum, has only intensified. (New mothers weren?t busy posting selfies of their abs to social media 40 or even 20 years ago.) ?Did you even have a baby"? is the classic question posed to the new mother who is back in her pre-pregnancy  skinny jeans, offered less as actual inquiry than praise.
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Postpartum body: My scars tell a storyToday, we?re seeing a rebuke to this cultural narrative. The body positivity movement?which preaches acceptance and health, slams fat-shaming, calls out ?thin privilege,? and celebrates diversity and...
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