Mille Mackintosh: 'I've Struggled With My Body Image Post-Pregnancy' millsmackintosh
byYesterday, I decided to post something on Instagram I was really nervous about. 10 weeks after having our first child, Sienna, I was ready to share my raw and unedited post-partum body. I contemplated over posting it, worried about how nasty comments might make me feel and what people would say, but in the end I took the plunge - and the reaction has been overwhelming., I was struggling with my body image.
When I was pregnant so many people told me I would ‘bounce back in no time’. They were well-intentioned, meant to make me feel better about the extra weight I had gained in pregnancy – that I admit, was more than my doctor advised. Being told you’ll ‘bounce back’ to your pre-baby physical form, especially in your first pregnancy when I had no idea how my body would react, only sets you up for disappointment. I couldn’t manage my own expectations never mind anyone else’s.
I’m also in quite a unique position of course, being in the public eye. Not everyone leaves the hospital after a c-section, to paparazzi waiting to get the first pictures of them and their new born baby. I wanted my first days with her to be a special memory and although I very grateful for the life I have, pictures of me post-surgery all over the papers wasn’t quite what I had in mind. Even without the commentary and the trolling the ‘bounce back’ subject did get to me in those first weeks.
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