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Mumsnet Discussions: Media / non-member requests : how do you feel about your body? (39 messages)
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Contact mumsnet about this post From MEDIA: Sunday Telegraph placed on Wed 13-Feb-08 19:48:59
how do you feel about your body?

I am writing a piece for the Sunday Telegraph about mumsnet's survey on body image after pregnancy and child birth.

I would like to interview some mothers who have lost confidence in their bodies since giving birth, especially over things like undressing in the dark, bikinis etc, and those who might consider or have had plastic surgery. I am also looking to talk to those who don't worry about it, or have strong views on the pressure to be a "yummy mummy".

You would need to be prepared to be photographed (fully clothed) to run alongside the piece.

If you are willing to share your views, contact me Laura Donnelly, Sunday Telegraph health correspondent at laura.donnelly@telegraph.co.uk - please make the subject "mumsnet".

Thanks very much - I look forward to hearing from you.



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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Jambuttie on Mon 03-Mar-08 13:00:25
Had a breast reduction last year as my boobs went to a massive 42G after having the kids.

So want to get rid of the mummy tummy but it aint for leaving me- have lost 2 stone and it still sits there in all it bloody glory
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By SlugsNSnails on Mon 25-Feb-08 15:55:40
grin @ the thanks!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Poohbah on Mon 25-Feb-08 15:23:11
I am happy to pose naked after breastfeeding for two years if i get a pedicure and a haircut thrown in. My body's not that great but I have seen worse!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By lauragirl on Sat 23-Feb-08 18:20:00
Thanks to everyone who has got in touch, if there are any other mums who would like to be interviewed on this issue I will be writing the piece next week, so send me an email(laura.donnelly@telegraph.co.uk) and we can fix up to speak.

Thanks also to Elasticwoman for the proof-reading!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By lauragirl on Sat 23-Feb-08 18:16:48
bump
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Flamesparrow on Sat 16-Feb-08 12:15:58
Aaaah, what did it say? grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By OliviaMumsnet on Sat 16-Feb-08 11:40:55 (from MNHQ)
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Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Sat 16-Feb-08 11:30:14
I think Laura has snuck in and corrected the original post very slyly without acknowledging her enormous proofreading debt to me.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Flamesparrow on Fri 15-Feb-08 23:09:06
I've missed something... does it not say fully clothed? am i reading words not there.

Not overly impressed with my various saggy bits, but not desperately upset about it. Although if cold hard cash is involved I feel sure I can be
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Psychomum5 on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:45:28
surely tho if you are not confident about your body now, you wouldn;t agree to beign photgraphed???? (unless it is just mehmm).

I am probably different as I am liking my body better now, but only because I can appreciate it more now, and try to see that the body I hated at 20 I would now love, so tell mysefl each day that I had batter love this body NOW, as when I am 50 I again will wish I had loved it more IYGWIM.

it is strange tho.....my bidy os different now, yet it has done soemting amazing 5 times so even when I look at myself naked and hate myself (which I do do at certain times of the monthwink), even then, I would never change it as that would mean wishing my DC's away in an absurd sense!

good luck on this.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By hermykne on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:34:31
after breastfeeding, i look back and realise i had lost so much weight , my body was fine and i didnt realise that. Just felt worn out to be able to .
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By moljam on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:32:51
my body does its job-end of.

if i stand on my head i have lovely figure-my arse is bit large and my boobs non exsistant.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Dropdeadfred on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:30:52
Mamazon - you're a babe and you know it! FFS! grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By bethoo on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:25:54
i appear to have no arse, none of my jeans fit as i have no hips to hold on to!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By OliviaMumsnet on Fri 15-Feb-08 22:22:05 (from MNHQ)
LOL elasticwoman!!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Fri 15-Feb-08 20:48:30
No Olivia I think this one is about after the bump is on the outside (I'll never forget the relief!).
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By OliviaMumsnet on Thu 14-Feb-08 19:07:50 (from MNHQ)
Bump
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:55:57
Ah, I see - she's on all fours oiling the cradle!

What is it they say about the hand that rocks the cradle?
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By onepieceoflollipop on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:52:36
MP didn't you post recently about how little sleep you were getting (I remember this because I sympathised as I had had some very disturbed nights?

Now we see that it had nothing to do with your dcs but "other reasons" - doggy position no less. grin
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By lissiethelover on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:49:46
i am a recovering anorexic and i have to say that i am more confident in my body now than i was pre-ds. im in awe of the fact that I managed to carry and give birth to a person. the ana has left me with thin bones and a permanent problem with food, but im happier with my body now, complete with scars than i was.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Washersaurus on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:47:44
Oh MP, the only thing I do in the doggy position these days involves crawling around the living room (fully clothed) with DS1 clinging onto my back.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By cadelaide on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:46:28
Washersaurus, I feel the same.
Now I have a reason for that tummy. I think my body's done a fantastic job several times over and I'm more confident about it than ever before, despite being heavier than ever before.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:39:29
I believe it's pregnancy, not breastfeeding that alters your breasts.

Most men must be ok with the post-partum female body, or there would never be any second babies conceived.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By ShakeysGirl on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:19:17
Mines a state, i'm in my mid 20s but feel like i have the body of someone alot older especially after breast feeding for 2 years! My legs are great but it all goes wrong in the middle, im a size 12 but its like dough that oozes into my jeans. My boobs look fantastic in a good bra but out of one they are a saggy mess. I don't get undressed in front of dp, deffo don't walk round naked and feel like a disappointment because i'm so different out of my clothes than in them.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:15:23
Why the <?> ? Surely you know what you were doing, Morningpaper?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By morningpaper on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:14:20
nailing down carpet?
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:13:37
What are you doing in doggy position Morningpaper - hanging the washing out?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By morningpaper on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:11:06
What about when you are doing the thing in doggy position and it is all flapping around in the wind

I don't like that one bit
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Washersaurus on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:09:12
I was actually thinking about how my body image has changed since having children just the other day.

Although I have a wrinkly tummy and a couple of stretch marks aswell as the extra weight; I actually feel better about my body now than I have ever done.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:06:21
Lol Mercy! So how much would you do it for??
Mamazon - you sound beautiful from your posts but I am having trouble visualising the backs of your knees. Don't we all have a crease there?
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Mercy on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:02:37
lol - if you have lost confidence in your body the last thing you want to do is be photographed for a national publication adn let evryone see you.

Unless there is a significant sum involved [rethinks]
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By MAMAZON on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:02:34
oh and as for unusual i have them on my boobs and arms and on teh back of my knee's.

why on earth did i getthem on the back of my knee's?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By MAMAZON on Wed 13-Feb-08 21:01:47
yes. the stress of two children have caused me too look more like a bag lady than i ever did....and i wasn't too far off it to begin with
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 20:57:28
Why, have you acquired childbirth related wrinkles, Mamazon?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By MAMAZON on Wed 13-Feb-08 20:52:55
i wuold be more than happy to flash my flab for you but i wouldn't want my face in the pic...that was horrific enough BEFORE children, let alone since
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 20:50:27
Any one have stretch marks other than in the usual places?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By morningpaper on Wed 13-Feb-08 20:46:30
I think this needs some real mother's NAKED FLESH actually as well as fully clothed people

I'll offer my freakish wrinkly belly as evidence for the prosecution if you want
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Elasticwoman on Wed 13-Feb-08 20:43:40
Do you mean "fully clothed", Laura?

Tut, you expect better proofreading from the Bellylaugh.


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