Actress Jennifer Garner, a mother of three, once jokingly referred to the extra weight that childbirth left around her tummy as her “baby bump” and added almost proudly, “It’s not going anywhere.”
Drew Barrymore, after giving birth twice, described how “everything’s saggy and weird,” but also dismissed the Hollywood pressure to lose post-childbirth weight as “silly and ridiculous.”
“Different women certainly react in different ways to the changes their bodies go through because of childbirth,” says Dr. Michael Burgdorf, author of The Mommy Makeover: Restoring Your B
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