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CELEBS WITH A HEALTHY APPROACH TO LOSING BABY WEIGHT: Chrissy Tiegen told US Today, "We have nutritionists, we have dietitians, we have trainers, we have our own schedules, we have nannies. We have people who make it possible for us to get back into shape. But nobody should feel like that's normal, or like that's realistic." Photo: Getty Images -
Speaking to Sunday Express S, Kate Winslet said, "I so didn't want to be one of those, 'Oh wow, she's back in shape after 12 weeks!' women. To my mind, life is just too short to be spending time focusing on things like that. I want to have fun. And that's the other thing about having children: it is so much fun. And if you spend too much of your time focusing on the wrong stuff, like how much you weigh, you forget to enjoy the fun stuff, don't you?" Winslet, 40, added, "What is so gorgeous about being the age I am is that all the ridiculous angst that I might once have felt about having a bit of cellulite or being a bit puffy in the face or whatever has just evaporated. I simply can't believe I ever spent any time wasting my life on that nonsense." -
Winslet, mum to Mia, Joe and 2-year-old Bear, also opened up to Harper's Bazaar about the pressure to drop her baby weight in 2015. "I so didn't want to be one of those [post-baby dieting] women. When I read things like that, I just think, 'Oh for f--k's sake, that's actually impossible.' ... I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well fed and happy. My body will never go back to what it was and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies." -
Scandal star Kerry Washington has spoken about her aim of feeling good, rather than getting back into pre-baby shape, after the birth of daughter Isabella in April 2014. âIâve been really focused on not being âbackâ to anything, but being the best version of myself right now,â the 38-year-old told SELF magazine. âMy body is the site of a miracle now. I donât want to be pre-miracle.â After a friend told her she had her "body back", she says, 'âShe meant it as a total compliment, but we had this great conversation where I was like, âYou know what? I try really hard not to use that language, because itâs not about going backward in life.ââ -
After the birth of daughter Lincoln, Kristen Bell tweeted that she was "proud to sit out the baby weight rat race". In an interview with Redbook magazine, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star said, "Iâd like to get back down to where I was before the baby ⦠but if this is where my body wants to be, so be it. Iâm not going to make myself miserable for the rest of my life trying to get back to where I was before." She added, "I like my Lincoln Leftovers because theyâre proof I did something extraordinary. I gave life to my new BFF & she gave me a comical amount of midsection skin." -
Sara Rue, currently starring on Malibu Country, says she's not hurrying to lose weight after the birth of her daughter Talulah in February. âI feel ashamed of Hollywood for that pressure they put on women. Itâs awful. I fight the conflict that I have in my own brain over that every day about baby weight and itâs the last thing you should be thinking about," she has said. "Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I donât think Iâm going to be one of those women, and Iâm okay with that. I just want to be a good mum, I donât really care about having a hot bod.â -
On an episode of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami, Kourtney Kardashian was left in tears when her partner, Scott Disick, criticised her weight after the birth of her second baby. "When we had Mason I remember her trying to whip herself back into shape pretty quick. This time around it seems like it's the least of her concerns, and the only thing she thinks about are the kids," he said to the cameras, later telling her that another 10kg weight loss would be "the dream". Kourtney, mum to Mason, 3, and Penelope, 8 months, told him, "You're so crazy. I don't need this. I'm trying to do this the healthy way ... I have to do what's best for me. I can't compare myself to supermodels." -
"I'm the last person anyone should look at for workout tips. I don't have them. I don't care," Drew Barrymore said, when asked about losing weight. The mum of Olive, 10 weeks, also said, "My new motto is: Impossible expectations are impossible." -
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai was criticised in her native India when the media circulated images that showed her with a double chin. With a then-six-month-old child, the actress had stated that she was in no hurry to slim down, instead preferring to âenjoy motherhoodâ. -
Amy Adams says being pregnant with daughter Aviana, who was born in May 2010, helped her improve her own body image. "I've been working out when I can... but losing weight is not my number one priority. Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything is going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since." -
Already a mum of two, Reese Witherspoon knew what she was getting into when she had her son Tennessee in September 2012. "You just have to be gentle and patient with yourself and just sort of ⦠slowly get back to your health,â the actress said of her updated fitness regime. -
Bryce Dallas Howard said she'd once been been in good humour about the weight she'd gained when pregnant with her son Theo, now 5, but was later "mortified by itâ while suffering from postnatal depression. The Help actress took a relaxed approach to losing weight after the birth of her daughter Beatrice in January 2012 (shown here in May 2012). -
Jenna Fischer, of The Office, says it took her "every day of 10 months to lose the weightâ after the birth of her son, Weston, now 14 months. âI did it slowly and I did it moderately. It was important for me to lose it. I was a fit and active person before I had my son, but if thereâs one thing I could do for a new mom, itâd be to alleviate her of any guilt or any stress over the idea of having her body look a certain way.â (Shown here three months after her son's birth.) -
"I think if you ask any pregnant mom, they're like 'I want my body back,' but it takes time," Hilary Duff told Us Weekly in July. The 25-year-old actress took her time to lose the weight she gained while pregnant with baby Luca, eventually using a personal trainer to help her fit back into her old jeans.
We all know it's true, but finally a celebrity mum has admitted it.
Speaking to US Today, the refreshingly honest Chrissy Teigen explained how an army of "nutritionists, dietitians, trainers, and nannies" are the secret behind why famous mums seem to lose their baby weight immediately after giving birth.
"Anyone in the public eye, we have all the help we could ever need to be able to shed everything," the 30-year-old model said.
"So I think people get this jaded sensation that everybody's losing it so quickly, but we just happen to be the ones who are out there. We have nutritionists, we have dietitians, we have trainers, we have our own schedules, we have nannies.
"We have people who make it possible for us to get back into shape. But nobody should feel like that's normal, or like that's realistic."
Teigen and singer husband John Legend welcomed their first child, daughter Luna, seven months ago.
She made the celebrity baby weight comments in an effort to stop new mums feeling like failures if they don't get back into shape as quickly as the famous mums they see on the covers of magazines.
While a house full of help during the early days of parenthood might have helped Teigen find time to work out, they haven't been able to protect her from "mummy shamers" on social media.
Teigen and Legend like to share photos of adorable Luna with their social media followers, but there always seems to be somebody ready to pass judgement on their parenting of the baby girl.
In the weeks after Luna's birth the couple was criticised for going out to dinner without their baby, and most recently a Twitter troll criticised how Teigen was holding her daughter.
Teigen explained she liked to cope with the social media critics by being a "proud shamer of mummy shamers".
"I just like to call people out," Teigen said.
"Sometimes it's just for entertainment of my other followers, and sometimes it's to genuinely see if they know that there's somebody else on the other side of that screen that they're talking to.
"Most of the time, they're just so excited to get a reply that that's the frustrating part: You realise they don't even think this, they're just saying it because they wanted to rile you up, or they wanted a hello.
"That frustrates me so much, because it's incredibly childish, one, and two, why do we need that kind of acknowledgement in society today, even if you say something negative?
"Why do you want that attention, why do you want a 'hi' to come out of calling someone a bad mother or ugly? That's where we are now?"
On a serious note, Teigen believes it is important to talk about "the mood stuff" that can follow even the most perfect pregnancy and birth.
"That was really tough for me, and I think just the mere act of losing those endorphins, I think I was slightly cursed by having such a great pregnancy and being so happy and having so much energy," she said.
"Just the decline of all those endorphins, and all the prenatals and everything I was on and how healthy I was, naturally made my mood change.
"Some days, I wouldn't know how to cope with work and juggle things and still have time for a husband life."