and my thicker waist and thighs. I forgave my double chin in photos and my rounder hips in jeans. I felt so empowered by what my body had done, I rarely thought about how it looked.
But while I was busy working and mom-ing and not worrying about ‘getting my body back,’ turns out everybody else was. No matter what I accomplished, from working full-time to keeping two human beings alive… the number one question I got asked was:As a feminist I. WAS. OFFENDED. As a woman I. WAS. FLATTERED. That’s just what I’ve been conditioned to be. As moms, we’re not praised for raising our children, that’s what we’re ‘biologically expected’ to do.
What I do know, is that the minute I stopped obsessing over what I wanted my body to be, and simply let it do what it needed to do, slowly, but surely… I lost a lot of the baby weight. Of course I realize it’s not always that easy, and that every new mom’s experience is different. But that is my very long and very honest answer to your very simple question. An answer I’ve been almost ashamed to give, to a question I wish we never cared to ask in the first place.
Now, when I stand at the grocery-store checkout, with my diapers and wipes, I look at the magazine headlines that scream I GOT MY BODY BACK! and think,. I want the body that had my children, then made food to nourish them and soft places to comfort them. I want the body that did the most impressive thing I’llaccomplish for as long as I live. That’s the body I want. Whether it’s in a string bikini or not.
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