It's the fact that Ivanka Trump gave birth just one month ago and here she is flaunting her post baby bod, which doesn't seem at all like she had a baby! I am so sick of seeing pictures of celebrity moms 2 weeks after giving birth looking like it never happened. Why isn't anyone making a fuss about this? A lot was made of waif like models in magazines and on runways looking miserably thin and how they were terrible role models for young girls, and women in general . Everyday I am bombarded with images of actresses that seem like they starve themselves so that they can shed the baby weight in record time. Why am I taking this so personally? Well obviously because I am a mom who didn't find losing the baby weight to be so easy. My pre -baby weight was 54 kgs (119 lbs) and I gained 14 kgs (31 lbs) during my pregnancy, which is within the normal range. I ate whatever I wanted before, during, and after baby, so you could say that I didn't try to control my weight in any way until baby was 6 months old and I stopped breastfeeding. I was more "careful" but did not try to be extreme about my diet. The thing is, I thought it would be so easy to take the weight off, like it was before, just limit dessert, and carbs and voilĂ ! Not so. It must be hormones or who knows what, but it was REALLY tough. The scale would not budge for months. It was stuck at this scary number, leaving me with about 8 kgs (18 lbs) to lose post baby. I then started running here and there, but really didn't have the time between a full time job and baby to be diligent about it. I followed a calorie controlled diet for about 2 months and that is finally when some of the weight started to shift. To make a long story short, 15 months after baby, I have 3 kgs (7 lbs) to go, to be back at my normal weight. It has been a struggle, but then again I didn't starve myself and exercise to death to fit into my jeans. I did however have to come to terms with the fact that whatever worked before, does not work now. This brings me back to my initial point of the insanity of seeing pictures of stick thin actresses right after having a baby, and no one is up in arms about it. When will someone, anyone say something about this?
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