Life must be hard for Katie Price. According to the Sunday Mirror, Price is in a race to get back to her best, most fabulous self including some post-birth botox, a boob job and a bit of vaginal tightening. According to her, 'men lose interest' when women don't make an effort...*rolls eyes* Did she really say that aloud?
Here is a bit from the interview:
How much weight did you put on?
I put on 3 stone this time, which was the most ever. I put on a stone and half with Harvey, 2 stone with Junior so with each pregnancy I get bigger and bigger.
Do you enjoy being pregnant?
I hated it. I’d have kids any day of the week but the nine months leading up to it I hate. I felt sick for the first six months, and I got sciatica down both sides. I hate my body when I’m pregnant ’cos I look fat and frumpy. I know it’s caused by being pregnant but I still hate it, having to wear horrible, frumpy clothes. I know smocks and pumps have been the fashion this year but I still hated it.
Surely Peter gave you plenty of reassurance?
Pete’s got the charm. He was always telling me how beautiful I looked but I didn’t believe it. I think he just said nice things to shut me up.
Did you feel under pressure to get back into shape fast?
No, but the weight’s still coming off quite quickly. I’m following my juicing plan and I’m just so busy with the kids. I’m normally 8st 2lb and I’m already down to 8st 12lb. I want to get back into shape for me, not because people think I should. I want to be a yummy mummy, not a Molly mum.
A Molly mum? What’s that?
When some women have kids they let themselves go – I call that a Molly mum. They don’t bother dressing up and forget about themselves. It’s important to look good because in some cases I think the man would lose interest and disappear.
We hear you made a big effort for the birth...
I had my hair blow-dried, that was a priority. And I put on my perfume and had my eyelashes, eyebrows and nails done. I didn’t want to look bad and scare the baby!
Have you been exercising to help you get back in trim?
I don’t do exercise. I’ve got this Hypoxi machine which is meant to be good for your bum and thighs, and I’ve still got a bit to lose from there. Luckily I don’t have cellulite, but I think that’s because of genes, my mum doesn’t have any either.
Will you be having surgery to help get your perfect figure back?
I’m already booked in for my boob job, that’s happening later in the year. I’ll still have big boobs but I want them a little bit smaller and perter. I’ve already had my Botox, I don’t hide anything. I’m thinking about getting tightened down there too, and if I have it done I’ll talk about it. I never make a secret about what I’m doing with my body.
So you fancy a designer vagina?
I wouldn’t do it for that reason. It’s just that when you’ve had kids you’re not as tight as before, and when you cough or sneeze you leak sometimes! But Pete likes me the way I am.
Source: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/celebsonsunday/celebfeatures/2007/08/26/you-have-to-be-a-yummy-mummy-otherwise-men-lose-interest-98487-19667207/
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Bikini bods after baby: photos that will make everyday mums want to cry
I was just perusing the world of celebrity and salacious gossip as I do and came across this little beauty from Us, my favourite trashy American rag. Entitled 'Bikini Bods After Baby', you can perve on stars like Jennifer Garner, Angie Harmon and Brooke Burke who regained seriously fit bodies following the births of their children. Whilst truly amazing, I'm not suggesting that these celeb bodies are something mothers everywhere should be aspiring to, quite the opposite.
I think these pictures demonstrate just how crazy Hollywood has become considering Brooke Burke, for example, felt so much pressure to 'bounce back' she dropped more than 15 kilos in less than 6 months. She says, 'I started working out a week after she [her daughter] was born'. Denise Richards posed for Playboy only 5 months after her daughter Sam was born in 2004 thanks to 'pilates'. Yeah bloody right. She must have been doing alot more than pilates to drop 15 or so kilos in 5 months.
Have a squiz at the photos yourself and you be the judge.
http://usmagazine.com/bods_after_baby_slideshow
I think these pictures demonstrate just how crazy Hollywood has become considering Brooke Burke, for example, felt so much pressure to 'bounce back' she dropped more than 15 kilos in less than 6 months. She says, 'I started working out a week after she [her daughter] was born'. Denise Richards posed for Playboy only 5 months after her daughter Sam was born in 2004 thanks to 'pilates'. Yeah bloody right. She must have been doing alot more than pilates to drop 15 or so kilos in 5 months.
Have a squiz at the photos yourself and you be the judge.
http://usmagazine.com/bods_after_baby_slideshow
Kristy Swanson: the latest of the celebrity mum brigade in the race to lose baby weight
Kristy Swanson, who rose to fame after Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been speaking out alot lately about her battle against the bulge since the birth of her son in May. She is the new spokesperson for Medifast to lose about 35 pounds (approx 16kg).
"I already needed to lose about fifteen pounds before I had my baby so I want to not only lose the baby weight but also a bit of extra weight I already had before I got pregnant," says Swanson.
"My weight has always fluctuated through the years and I've tried many different ways to lose it but I've always gained it back before."
I found an interesting interview from the show Showbiz Tonight on CNN where she talks about getting cast on Criminal Intent to portray Anna Nicole Smith only four weeks after the birth and how her baby weight played a role in her getting the job:
She says: "Well, the phone call came in and my agent said that Criminal Intent called and said, we know Kristy just had a baby, but how does she look, because that`s how Hollywood is. They want to know is she skinny or is she fat right now".
"It`s Hollywood. He says, look, she had a baby. She`s a little chunky right now. So they said, OK, you know what, this is going to work just fine, because the character just had a baby. So it`s going to be perfect. We want her to come do the show. Will she come do it, even though she just had the C-section and just gave birth? Would she come to New York for us?"
Read full interview: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/07/sbt.01.html
Also found another really interesting interview about celebrity pregnancy featuring Rebecca Odes, author of the new 'hip' pregnancy book, From the Hips as well as Kristy Swanson:
Note: AJ Hammer is the host
Jill Dobson is from Star Magazine
Felicia Stoler, host 'Honey, we're killing the kids'
HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. You know, there`s been a baby boom in Hollywood lately, and everywhere you turn, celebrity moms have bounced back to their pre-pregnancy weights in record time. So what is going on here? How do celebrities who have babies whittle away the pounds so quickly and what kind of message is that sending to regular women out there? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigates.
REBECCA ODES, AUTHOR, "FROM THE HIPS": We live in a celebrity- obsessed culture. And the idea of celebrity pregnancy and motherhood has suddenly become hot.
HAMMER: Hot indeed. Just look at the red carpet moments that some celebrities have become famous for. And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you, it`s not because of the dress they were wearing, but how good they looked in it so soon after having a baby, like super model Heidi Klum, who`s red carpet moments sizzled right after the last two of her three pregnancies.
FELICIA STOLER, HOST, "HONEY WE`RE KILLING THE KIDS": When Heidi Klum was on the red carpet after having her baby, she looked great.
HAMMER: So great, Heidi made it seem as if losing the baby weight was a piece of cake. In this picture, taken at the Golden Globes, just two months, that`s eight weeks, after the birth of her third child, Heidi doesn`t even look like she`s just had a baby. But getting back her bodacious body after child birth isn`t something new for the super model. Klum strutted herself down a different red carpet even more quickly after she delivered her second bundle of joy.
DOBSON: Just seven weeks after it was born, she walked the runway for Victoria`s Secret in lingerie and looked amazing.
HAMMER: Judge for yourself. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the video, and it`s no secret, Klum shed the pounds fast. But Klum isn`t the only star whose body bounced back quicker than her baby could say ga ga. In fact, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can show you these pictures of Angelina Jolie, who many say looks even thinner than before she had baby Shiloh.
DOBSON: Angelina Jolie, after giving birth to baby Shiloh, actually looks thinner than ever before. And, of course, she`s chasing around four kids. She`s busy with her career and her world traveling.
HAMMER: And traveling the world with fiance Tom Cruise, new mommy Katie Holmes shed all her baby weight in just seven months, just in time for her big day, the celebrity wedding of the century.
DOBSON: Katie Holmes had one of the biggest celebrity weddings ever exactly seven months after giving birth to baby Suri. So she had real motivation. She knew she was going to be wearing that wedding dress in front of the whole world.
HAMMER: Just seven months for Katie, just seven weeks for Heidi. It`s got us asking, are celebrities who lose baby weight this quickly sending a bad message to regular women out there? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT went right to nutrition expert Felicia Stoler.
STOLER: When people see celebrities lose weight very quickly, it`s very difficult for them to comprehend that they could even lose weight that quickly. It`s so unrealistic for most people to lose weight that fast after pregnancy.
HAMMER: So what`s the secret? Well, let`s face it, celebrities have a team of people who are ready, willing and able to whip them right back into shape.
STOLER: They have trainers. They have people cooking for them. There`s probably a nanny and a baby nurse taking care of the kids. So they can get some good rest that most of us don`t have the luxury to do.
HAMMER: Celebrities sure do live lives of luxury, but they also need to work to support those lives. So when the casting call comes, they need to be ready.
DOBSON: Part of the reason celebrities lose the weight so quickly is because they really want to send a message to all of Hollywood that they`re ready to get back to work.
HAMMER: But there are stars like Jennifer Garner, who say making play time with the baby she had with hubby Ben Aflack is just as important as looking good. Garner tells "In Style" magazine she was in no rush to shed the baby weight saying, quote, "You`re supposed to look a certain way when you`re a celebrity. But I want to take care of my baby. And those two things don`t mesh very well." And once in a while, Hollywood stars and their baby weight do mesh, when the part calls for it. Actress Kristy Swanson tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT her agent called her soon after she delivered her baby boy to say hey, don`t lose all that baby weight so quickly, because there`s this part.
KRISTY SWANSON, ACTRESS: Well, the phone call came in and my agent said that "Criminal Intent" called and said, we know Kristy just had a baby. How does she look. You know, because that`s how Hollywood is.
HAMMER: And the "Law and Order" episode Kristy was cast for, playing the part of the late Anna Nicole Smith soon after she gave birth to her own baby, Dannielynn.
SWANSON: But this is Ava`s big TV debut. Let her shine.
HAMMER: Kristy tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT that she is determined to shed the weight, but she`ll do it at a healthy pace.
SWANSON: It`s sort of my job to stay in shape. But right now, I have the excuse that I just had a baby. So --
HAMMER: Kristy, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you, having a baby is good enough reason for gaining weight. And if somebody gives you lip about not shedding it fast enough, you can use what nutrition expert Felicia Stoler says is a healthy guideline for taking the baby weight off.
STOLER: It takes nine to ten months to put on all that weight. It should take about that amount of time to take it all off afterwards.
HAMMER: Because, after all, having a baby is hard work. And while losing the baby weight is also hard, doing it right is the right way to go.
Read full interview: http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/16/sbt.01.html
Drea de Matteo: 'I Feel Fat, but I Feel Great'
Actress Drea de Matteo, the 'sexy' Soprano's star, is four months pregnant and apparently all she can say about it is how 'fat' she feels. I find this incredibly interesting because I would say the majority of the women in my study have referred to themselves as 'fat' and not pregnant more than once in the course of our interviews. In fact, in this short blurb from the People website she refers to the size of her body three times in only 6 paragraphs, and two of those mentions use the word 'fat'.
On her pregnancy:
"I feel great. I just feel fat, but I feel great."
On her body shape:
"I feel like I'm carrying the baby in my [behind], it's so big."
On the gender of the baby:
"We don't know what we're having yet. But I use 'she,' because I'm getting so fat, I think it's a girl!"
Read the full article here: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,640758_20043051,00.html
And one other thing, I decided to indulge my incessant craving for celebrity gossip by buying the latest NW the other day. I was particularly intrigued by the cover which caught my attention as it shouted 'Pregnant Stars In Crisis' featuring:
Kate Hudson: alone and pregnant
Nicole Ritchie: pregnant and on her way to the slammer
Salma Hayek: 'fat' and pregnant
Katie Holmes is also featured on the cover but is apparently not suffering from a body 'crisis' and is instead praised for her amazing post baby body. This NW cover is such a good example of the ways in which the celebrity body becomes the receptacle of cultural anxieties surrounding discourses of body size, marriage and 'good' motherhood. Also, notable and perhaps unsurprising is that the bodies on display are women's bodies; these are represented as being outside the boundaries of 'normal' and transgressive.
Whereas Hayek, Hudson and Ritchie are subject to ridicule, Katie Holmes is featured as a icon to admire (and this has not always been the case. Remember when Holmes was derided for being too 'fat' after her pregnancy?). On one hand the featured celebrities are uncomfortably exposed (their relationships, their bodies, their vulnerabilities) and on the other hand the unparalleled visibility provided to us as readers feeds our hunger to see the most popular celebrities teetering on ambiguous territory. Moreover, rather than seeing celebrities like they come from another planet, tabloids like NW serve up the failings of Hollywood's A-list like a three course meal full of melodrama replete with humiliating photos in an unlicensed display of humanity.
welcome!
Well, the Today show was a hit and I hope some of you had a chance to see my spot. The show put up a really great article about the research:
I'll hopefully have some video to post soon. For any new readers, I invite you to send me photos of yourself pregnant and post-baby in order to celebrate what 'real' mothers look like. I'll post them on the blog so we can share and compare (and not be judgmental!). If you would like to share your own experiences of having a 'bump' with other mums-to-be and mums-already, email your story to me on babybumpproject[at]yahoo.com.au and I will post your message for others mums to read and learn.
Feel free to include any handy hints for coping with the pressure (body or otherwise). Make sure to include images of your bump or your body during pregnancy or postbaby so we can all share in how everyday mums look and feel. If you have a Flickr account, join our group The Baby Bump Project and post yourself in the Bump Gallery (otherwise send me your images and I can post them for you).
Feel free to include any handy hints for coping with the pressure (body or otherwise). Make sure to include images of your bump or your body during pregnancy or postbaby so we can all share in how everyday mums look and feel. If you have a Flickr account, join our group The Baby Bump Project and post yourself in the Bump Gallery (otherwise send me your images and I can post them for you).
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