To have the rage about this article!

[SilverChime]

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7536971/amp/Mummy-blogger-reveals-got-figure-pregnancy.html

It’s basically saying that if you eat right you’ll look like that post pregnancy. I dieted and exercised right through my pregnancy and only gained 5lb on top of the actual baby and fluid etc. But I have terrible stretch marks, diastasis recti and an apron of skin, so no chance of ever looking like that. Most mothers cannot achieve that stomach no matter what they do. I’ve cried all morning because that article has made me feel like the state of my stomach is my fault.

You sound like you might need some professional help OP. You shouldn't be this obsessed with your body.

“SilverChime

You could’ve done that
I did do that. I didn’t get those results. My stomach is too stretched and scarred.”

What extreme dieting and exercise? Did you body look like hers before you had your baby?

You, as I said, consider that you don’t know what she did

Maybe she only ate a bowl of spinach a day
Maybe she had surgery

It's a cliche, but you could do with some counselling. Sounds like your self esteem is through the floor. My tummy is much like what you describe, and I'm never going to say that I love it, but I accept it is part of my story, every stretch mark and scar tells a story that makes me who I am today, flaws and all.

That article isn't saying everyone can look like that woman.

She's young, beautiful and fit as a fiddle judging by the look of her.

It's not saying 'One size fits all'.

I agree with the PP who said you may need professional help, as you do seem a bit obsessed and determined to read what isn't being said.

YABU for reading that rubbish in the first place OP! But you only gained 5lbs during pregnancy - that’s amazing! A lot of women gain far more than that.

she's also got a huge amount of visible contouring makeup on her stomach

I don't think you need counselling OP, but you do need to step away from all this shite.

U had a baby in your tummy of course it's going to change
I don't think her tummy looks particularly great tho it's not flat and she's posed in every pic and the last one has some sort of Fake tan contouring
It's all shit
I are normal everyone is different
Looks fade quickly don't let them get u down

But you only gained 5lbs during pregnancy - that’s amazing!

Her doctor told her she needed to eat more for the health of the baby. That's not amazing, that's dangerous and obsessive and speaks of, at the least, an eating disorder.

Are you young OP? I always think it must be much more difficult if your in your early twenties and your stomach refuses to ping back than if you’re in your late thirties.

Unfortunately there’s little you can do bar try to love yourself as you are. I like the Tiger Stripe mentality that lord of women have. You have your baby, you earned your stripes.

I’d stop reading articles like this if I were you.

And try to remember this sort of thing is partly down to luck. Some pregnancies are harder on the body than others, some pregnancies do leave permanent marks on the body.
If that means that you’re never going to get back to a pre-pregnancy stomach then you need to remember that that’s not your fault, and ignore people or articles that try to suggest otherwise.

Stop reading things like this. Everyone is different, some women can go back to normal with barely any exercising because of their genes, other women can try everything and still not get to what they want. Your body isn’t ruined, you’ve brought a baby into this world. Instead of thinking you aren’t the same as before realise how amazing it is that you have been able to do what you’ve done.

She obviously had a fantastic body before she became pregnant. She has worked hard for it. Diet and exercise. She is also a yoga teacher.

I have never put that much work into my body so I can't expect to ever look as slim and toned as she does.

The article isn't saying every new mum can look like she does. She is talking about how she got her figure back, it's not a dig at anyone else.

I am sorry you are feeling shit about the way you look. I have been there, a lot of us have. I too think you might benefit from some professional help over this matter if you aren't having any already.

Stuff like stretch marks is just blind luck- some people get them, some don’t.
As for this woman- looking good is her job. Don’t let this article trick you into thinking that every single photo she posts hasn’t been carefully selected out of hundreds of near identical pictures, then edited, airbrushed and filtered to within an inch of it’s existence before it gets put online. These images are constructions, not reality.

Her doctor told her she needed to eat more for the health of the baby. That's not amazing, that's dangerous and obsessive and speaks of, at the least, an eating disorder.

Apologies, I missed the OP’s subsequent post. I take it back...

That article reads like it was written by an algorithm (wtf might a post-partum delivery be?).

In a newspaper that dedicated 4 pages to slagging off Pippa Middleton's arse not long after she'd had a baby (I assume she declined an interview).

That blogger's livelihood is taking pictures of herself and convincing people she really looks like that. You may have tried the diet and exercise, but have you also tried the body makeup and Photoshop? Even Beyonce has got her stomach on show a lot less since having kids.

OP, had anyone irl said anything to you about it? I'm just wondering if perhaps your view of your body is much more negative than how anyone else might see it?

It sounds like it might be time to go and see your GP, if you're feeling this low about it.

The Daily Mail exists to make women waste their time and energy by comparing themselves unfavourably to vastly better resourced women, because the DM hates women, so just remember that and fuck them.

I think you’re being a tad over dramatic if I’m honest. If you’re very insecure then that’s something you need to work through. Avoiding trash articles like that is probably a good place to start.