Motherhood starts when that faint line appears on a pregnancy test, setting into motion a series of transformative changes, both physical and emotional, ugly and beautiful, raw and unrelenting. We’re so used to seeing Instagram versions of the postpartum experience through rose-coloured glasses, but a powerful new book wants to change that?with help from famous moms like Amy Schumer and Gabrielle Union.
?Men are cool and whatever but women are f*cking warriors and capable of anything,? says Amy  in Life After Birth: Portraits of Love and the Beauty of Parenthood, alongside a photo of the actress cradling newborn baby Gene in the hospital. And for parents feeling the weight of this new chapter, Gabrielle Union has words of encouragement.?To everyone feeling alone, scared, unsafe, unsure, without hope . . . hang on,” she says. “You are loved and you are not alone.” The book celebrates the early stages of motherhood through a series of raw, personal photographs and intimate stories from 250 moms like Christy Turlington, Ricki Lake and Jillian Harris. It gives a sense of the many ways we experience motherhood, from a woman in her 42nd week of pregnancy to a military mom navigating her family and career. What unites all these stories is the strength and resiliency of these mothers.
With a foreward by model and body positivity icon Ashley Graham, the book is the product of a collaboration between Joanna Griffiths, founder of the Canadian intimates lab...