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Original poster

to find this picture of Tess Daly sickening and annoying

108 replies

mousemole · 12/08/2009 18:31

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1206051/Tess-Daly-shows-amazing-figure-weeks-giving-birth.html

I mean why ?

OP posts:
FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 21:42

SM I think you're missing the point of the article. Call me cynical but I believe the whole premis is to objectify women and make 99% of us feel like failures for being less than perfect.

FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 21:43

I'm not sure what OP's point was at all.

scottishmummy · 13/08/2009 21:45

i think you are assuming a prejudiucal DM stance.read this thread most posts are affirmative to Tess (as was article)

you need to take the post modernist feminist critique of female form to another thread were it is appropriate

it isnt on this one

FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 21:47

'...her admirably toned body'...

'Presenter Vern's pride was certainly justified'...

'But with the new series of Strictly starting next month she must have been keen to regain her waistline...'

Oh totally pro Tess, I think not. They just approve of her physique. Hardly flattering is it.

WidowWadman · 13/08/2009 21:55

What's unnatural about it? I lost the weight I gained during pregnancy in a matter of weeks and an additional 3 stone of overweight I had already from before pregnancy since, without a diet, just by keeping busy with the baby and not stuffing my face with biscuits in the office. (Well, breastfeeding obviously helps, too).

Stop being nasty about women who regain their old figure quickly. It doesn't make them bad people.

If you burn more calories than you eat, you lose weight, simple as that.

WidowWadman · 13/08/2009 21:59

Mammy T - what's wrong with her looking groomed?

I felt pretty shit about myself hanging out in slobby jeans as I was too tired to do anything else, until I realised that shaving in the shower doesn't take longer than just having a shower, and pretty clothes can be as easily washed as sloppy jeans.

So I started dressing nicely every day and it did wonders for my self esteem.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 13/08/2009 22:02

My SIL was back in her clothes very quickly after both her DC's.

sabire · 13/08/2009 22:23

It's all genetic. I had my first baby at 33 and was in GREAT shape afterwards - I was thinner than before I was pregnant and had better tits. I was back in a size 10 skirt within a fortnight. No stretch marks either. Oh, and I didn't exercise or diet before, during or after pregnancy either.

I actually sold a story to Woman's Own: "Having a baby improved my figure"

They sent a photographer round to my house and he took a really naff picture of me posing side on to the camera, hand on my flat tummy. Then he took another one of me holding my baby and somehow managed to make her look like a cabbage patch doll. .

I've been thinner and had a flatter stomach after each pregnancy than before. And bigger tits - which is no bad thing: thin legs and waist, humungous norks......

mears · 13/08/2009 22:32

it's all down to breastfeeding

Mix feeding actually. VBAC as well.

CaptainNemo · 13/08/2009 22:54

O.M.G. As Bran says, I just about had a figure like that at 16, although sadly I didn't even realise it at the time, still thought I was fat... But would LOVE to look like that again in a few weeks' time - currently 38+1 having put on 3 stone... don't exactly rate my chances! Oh well, a girl can dream!

trellism · 15/08/2009 11:53

I imagine that a c-section and tummy tuck would result in a terrible puckered mess as the skin relaxed from its previous stretched state.

I say this because a friend of mine lost about 10 stone with a gastric band and has had to wait 2 years to have a boob reduction and tummy tuck so that the surgeon could be sure that the skin wasn't going to change any more.

PuppyMonkey · 15/08/2009 12:02

It was very accommodating of the paps to turn up and take such lovely "candid" photos of them. They obviously have good PR people.

FabBakerGirlIsBack · 15/08/2009 12:04

YABU to find it sickening.

Maybe she just has a fast metablilism?

She looks great and I am pleased for her while jealous for myself but then I don't eat properly or do enough exercise so go figure.

duchesse · 15/08/2009 12:06

I think the not getting stretch marks thing is pure luck, possibly genetic. I'm nearly 40 weeks into my fourth pregnancy and do not have a single one from any of them. One of my sisters was quite badly affected by them, the other two not at all.

How much weight you gain also seems to be largely down to luck and genetics, but also frankly to your diet and calorie intake in pregnancy. Again, I am lucky that my appetite does not increase in pregnancy apart from a few weird notions early on. With my first three pregnancies I had gained 12kg by the end but was back down to pre-pregnancy weight very quickly- ten days after the first one. This time I started off about a stone overweight for me but have only gained 8.5kg in the whole pregnancy. I seem to process everything more efficiently in pregnancy, and my craving for three of the pregnancies has been ice cubes (zero calories!!).

FabBakerGirlIsBack · 15/08/2009 12:07

PuppyMonkey - Vernon took the photo and posted it on twitter.

PuppyMonkey · 15/08/2009 12:10

Oh right. Didn't read the story, just looked at the pictures.

Original poster
mousemole · 15/08/2009 12:28

Vinegartits - of course I am jealous - as I said on a previous post. I do think it is 'sickening and annoying' to see pictures of her plastered all over the press 10 weeks post partum when millons of other new mums haven't got out of their pyjamas at that stage.

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Lizzylou · 15/08/2009 12:33

But Mousemole, how many of those women 10 weeks post partum looked like Tess Daly before they got pg? How many have to be on TV in a few weeks?
We are each responsible for our own unrealistic expectations.
The amount of cheese, crisps and chocolate I ate during pg I only had myself to blame when I didn't have a flat stomach 10 weeks after giving birth. Not saying that that is the case for everyone, I was a lot better with my exercise with DS2 and I still gained loads, but I have never looked that good in a bikini anyway, I don't hate people who do though.

Original poster
mousemole · 15/08/2009 12:36

I dont hate people that do either !

OP posts:
Lizzylou · 15/08/2009 12:40

OK, hate is a strong word.
Seriously, don't let it get to you, it's her job and think of all the cheese and chocolate she had to pass up whilst pg

Jumente · 15/08/2009 14:28

Fabby it's good to see you, was about to start a thread! You Ok?

serendippity · 15/08/2009 14:37

sickening and annoying? YABU. Good for her, she looks great.
I disagee that it isn't "normal" to look like that 10 weeks later also. I was back in size 10 a week or so after giving birth to ds, I wasn't doing anything abnormal and way more wobbly than she is but I guess it's just down to individual bodies

cheesesarnie · 15/08/2009 14:45

'It's not an amazing figure, it's unnatural!! ' i disagree.

and to op yes yabu.

i think she looks happy and healthy and very beutiful.

FabBakerGirlIsBack · 15/08/2009 14:56

Start the thread, start the thread Jumente! not had one for years of my own.

Jumente · 15/08/2009 16:35

Ah but what to say? I know you are back now!!!