Spice Girls: who has the better post-baby body?

It's a Spice Girls post-baby body battle according to Closer mag

Round 1: Mel B (Scary Spice) can't believe Mel C (Sporty Spice) needs a personal trainer to lose her baby weight.

The 34-year-old singer was shocked when she discovered her fellow Spice Girls star had hired an expert to help get her figure back after giving birth to baby Scarlet in February.

"I read about Mel C's post-baby fitness regime and thought, 'Good on her! I was surprised she has a trainer though, because she's always been so good at doing her own workouts and training - she is Sporty Spice after all."

Mel B is now famous for her toned physique and her crazy relationship dramas with Eddie Murphy.

She explained: "It's really important to take things slowly when you've had a baby because your body has been through so much. After Angel, I went for long walks and got back into weights and cardio only when I felt up to it. I found breastfeeding really helps the weight fall off too."

So does that explain why she had lipo after having her second baby?

No hombirth for Sporty Spice

Charlotte Church, 22, gave birth to her second child, a boy, at home on Sunday. The young mum has spoken out a number of times this year about her positive homebirthing experiences.

There will be no homebirth for former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm. Due in February, the singer is freaking out thanks to some not so supportive words by fellow bandmate Mel B (Scary Spice). "Mel B has been talking me through all the fine details of giving birth and has told me loads of horror stories," she said. "Well, she is Scary, isn't she? So I suppose it's her job to scare me a bit."

"I want to give birth in hospital, rather than at home, just in case something goes wrong - especially as it's my first," she says.

Sources: http://www.charlottechurch.com/
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2009/01/09/mel-c-bump-jools/

Baby Spice: on post-baby body pressures

Emma Bunton (aka Baby Spice) is featured in UK mag Red talking about how hard it was to give birth and almost immediately after jump on tour with the Spice Girls.

"You have to get back in shape and your fitness has to be up to a two-hour show every night. And there’s the pressure of looking good in your stage costumes. I don’t know if I’d put myself through that again, to tell you the truth."

"It’s tough for any woman returning to work straight after having a baby. I didn’t want to be in the gym 24 hours a day, instead of being with Beau. And, I wanted to breastfeed for the first couple of months. I did lots of walking, but I couldn’t do sit-ups, because I’d had a Caesarean, as I was overdue.

You know, I actually believe her. While in the Spice Girls, Emma was never ridiculously thin and perhaps looked the most 'normal' woman of the whole group. She says:

"The first fortnight of the tour, I did feel self-conscious but, one night, I was up on stage and it just hit me: hold on, Emma, everyone knows you’ve just had a baby, enjoy it.

I wonder if she had a caesar because she was 'overdue' or if she was edging too close to the time she was supposed to join the Spice Girls tour.....

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/latest/2008/07/02/in-pictures-emma-bunton-i-like-being-curvy-89520-20628447/