'I've lost 65lbs!' Southern Comfort's Jennifer Snowden shows off dramatic weight loss four months after birth of son Ascher
She had a tough pregnancy during which she gained 80 pounds and had to cope with the knowledge that her son would be born with a rare neural tube defect.
But four months on from the birth of baby Ascher, Southern Charm's Jennifer Snowden has bounced back physically and emotionally and shared the results on her Instagram Monday.
The 35-year-old posted two selfies showing off her newly honed body in a black sports bra and leggings alongside a snap taken as she left hospital in mid-September with her son.
Slimmed down: Southern Charm's Jennifer Snowden showed off her body after losing 65 of the 80 pounds she gained while pregnant; bottom left leaving hospital with her son Ascher
'I decided to do this post today because after I had Ascher I struggled greatly with my body image & identity after having gained 80 (yes 80!) pounds while pregnant which was over 70% of my initial weight. It was a LOT!!' she wrote in a long post next to the photo collage.
Prior to getting pregnant, she said, she was a keen runner and kept her weight in check.
But the pounds piled on in the first couple of months after she learned she was expecting because, she said, she was no longer able to work out and she made poor food choices.
She said she worried that she would never be able to ditch the added pounds because she had put on so much.
Honest: The reality TV star shared that she had been unable to work out during most of her pregnancy and at times despaired of ever being able to lose all the pounds she had piled on
But on Monday she proudly shared she has dropped 65 pounds and has just 15 more to go in order to regain her pre-baby body.
Jennifer also shared how she did it, telling her social media followers: 'I've completely cut out sugar & I limit my carbs. I also drink 2 protein shakes that are low calorie & im back to running 5 days a week & I do strength training on 3 of those days too.'
She went on: 'And by the way, the weight did not come off at all through breast feeding & for the 1st 6 wks I lost almost no weight so that was disheartening but rest assured, it will come off. I promise.'
Worth it: The 35-year-old credited running and protein shakes for helping her shed the pounds after welcoming Ascher in mid-September; he's pictured in an Instagram pic Sunday
Jennifer found fame as a member of Bravo TV’s reality show about singles in Charleston, South Carolina.
She revealed in April that she was expecting her first child, and also went public with the devastating news that a scan at 15 weeks had revealed her baby had a brain encephalocele, where in part of the brain partially extrudes through the skull.
Despite the dire prognosis for her son, she decided not to terminate her pregnancy and on September 13, surrounded a by a team of medical specialists, she delivered Ascher by C-section a couple of weeks early.
Minutes later he was rushed into surgery. Jennifer later learned that the fragile membrane covering Ascher’s brain was only two cells thick. She said: ‘If that had touched anything during birth he would have been brain dead.’
To date Ascher is hitting every milestone Jennifer said and proving to her each day that ‘miracles happen.’
Jennifer said: ‘I feel like in all my years I’ve lived life to the fullest but I didn’t feel like I had a purpose and that’s lonely. Now Ascher is my purpose and sharing his story so that maybe even just one woman who’s in the position I was in, sees there is hope.’
Doing great: Despite her child being born with a rare neural tube defect and needing surgery minutes after he was born, Jennifer said he is hitting all his milestones
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