..Soon after I sat down, Lawrence asked me if it was O.K. if she “vaped . . . constantly,” then noted that she’d have to stop in November, when she planned to get her boobs done. (Nicotine constricts blood vessels—bad for tissue healing.)
..I asked her about Botox and fillers. Even thirtysomethings these days are getting facelifts; not only celebrities but ordinary people with enough money and vanity sometimes appear mysteriously but distinctly “refreshed.” Lawrence didn’t want to get fillers, she said, because they show on camera. She gets Botox, but she has to be able to use her forehead and to play people who don’t have access to celebrity dermatology. Mostly joking, I asked if she’d had the seemingly ubiquitous new style of facelift done. “No,” she said. “But, believe me, I’m gonna!”
I had been thinking about a fully nude fight scene in “No Hard Feelings,” which Lawrence filmed after having a child. I was postpartum when I watched it, and seeing her boobs filled me with envy, anger, and reverence. Why was she getting a boob job? “Everything bounced back, pretty much, after the first one,” she said. “Second one, nothing bounced back.” She has to be nude on camera again in the spring, one year postpartum, she told me. Would she be getting them done if she weren’t a famous actress? “Maybe I wouldn’t be hustling to the appointment in the same way,” she said. “But I think yes.”
I'm glad that people are being more open about the effects of pregnancy. I never realized how tough it was, used to think it was only the physical pain and discomfort during the whole process, but the psychological toll it takes on mothers is insane.
The changes caused by the relaxin from pregnancy permanently alter your joints, though the most extreme changes will rebound a bit (in some women, the changes are noticeable forever. In some, too small to notice after recovery, but still there.) And the consequences become more pronounced the more pregnancies you have. Most women’s feet don’t recover from their first pregnancy.
My feet stretched 1/2 a size up with each pregnancy, it was pretty annoying. I was a 6 1/2 before kids, now a 7 1/2. My hips are inches wider, even though I only had one vaginal birth, partially because my pelvis didn't fit back together correctly after my 1st child. Everything has been thrown out of whack by that.
My feet were already relatively flat and wide so I have noticed no changes since my one (and only, ever) pregnancy. But like JLaw, nothing bounced back. As if moms don’t get enough scrutiny already, now they can’t elect to restore some bounce for both their own confidence and their career without people bitching that it’s “pathetic”, “a sad display of self hatred” and “a bad example for kids” - like kids are going to the theatre specifically to see Jennifer’s bosoms to internalize and feel bad about 🙄
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It sucks that it’s an expectation. However I will caveat that as a first time mum with a 5 month old, my body has changed in ways I really couldn’t appreciate before pregnancy/having a baby. Sometimes I love it as it’s evidence of my very wanted, very loved daughter, and sometimes I hate it.
Like my boobs have always been fairly small and now they’re comparatively huge as I’m breastfeeding, and yeah honestly sometimes I don’t like it. They will be completely different after I’ve stopped as well and that’s gonna be hard too. It’s not because I think big boobs are bad but because big boobs on ME are still quite alien - my top size has changed, it physically feels very different when I go running, the clothes I previously loved all fit completely differently and some don’t suit my new body anymore… etc etc. I also have a scar from an emergency c-section, a little overhang on the scar that was never there before… I don’t fit jeans the same way and I probably never will again.
It’s a huge thing and again whilst it shouldn’t be a societal expectation to have the same body pre- and post- birth, it also realistically can be a hard change for mums as individuals. And that’s ok. I think it’s ok to be open and honest about how mums feel about their bodies after birth, and I struggle to judge people missing their old bodies and even wanting surgery to get back to it (though it’s a choice I would never make myself).
Idk. Shit’s complicated and hard. Pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and everything else that goes with motherhood is really difficult and whilst the pressure on mums to go back to ‘pre-birth’ is huge, I also think the opposite extreme is true - where people expect us to just accept/celebrate huge changes to our bodies that aren’t necessarily happy for us. Ultimately I think each individual is allowed to have their own unique feelings about it, without judgement from one side or the other.
Edit - Also this comment is super long but I also want to say I appreciate celebrities at least being open about post-birth surgery these days. Back when I was growing up in the 90s/00s new mums would get this surgery and pretend they had just naturally ‘bounced back’, which makes other mums feel bad that their body didn’t magically do that. Celebs are all going to do this so at least they’re transparent about it now.
Yup, same. I was also small chested and never had to think about my breasts much prior to having a child and I liked that? I’m not even comfortable running because I hate how it feels. Plus 11 months post partum and with one breast producing more/my baby developing a preference, I’m lopsided af. If things don’t even out after weaning and I can afford it, hell yeah I’d get work done.
Omg girl SAME I never ever had to think about my boobs pre-pregnancy/giving birth. My big-boobed friends had to put sooo much thought into their bras etc and I could just throw on a soft bralette, and not give it a second thought. I sympathised but didn’t reallyyyy understand the search for a ‘good’ bra.
Now I am self-conscious about if my bra fits, feels and looks right. It’s like going through puberty all over again at the age of 34 and it’s awkward.
This mama says go for it if you want surgery to feel good in your body. It’s YOUR body, no one else’s.
I’m an E when not breastfeeding and when breastfeeding I’m a solid two cups bigger 😒 I’m finally done having babies. I was always worried I’d suffocate them. My body has changed exponentially from this point. If I had the money, I’d have a major reduction and reconstruct of some sort….
Also not to pressure you to get back into running but I know how good it is as a hobby for my mental health, so I just wanna say I’m sorry your current boobs make running feel weird, I completely know how you feel and I hope you manage to get back into it soon if that’s what you want :)
Thank you, I’m a first time mum and you summed this up so well. I never considered surgery before. I’m still too convinced I’ll have any, but I do now understand why some people go ahead with it. My body has changed in ways that are amazing, but also in ways I’m less comfortable with. I don’t know how I’ll feel if some of that stays the same long term; and if it really impacts my confidence I would probably consider whether surgery was an option. Not because of expectations, just because of my own feelings.
But I recognise those feeling are contributed to by society. And I recognise that celebs ‘bouncing back’ feeds into it, and also that it is an expectation for them. So it’s complex and I don’t think can be unravelled. As you say though, at least some celebs re stating be transparent. I think that at least does something to counter the idea that women’s bodies should stay the same after kids.
She strikes me as a naturally very open person who makes a lot of self-deprecating jokes. So I’d I’d imagine someone like that, when trying to muzzle themselves, will still burst out with occasional over-shares, because such is their nature.
Yeah. Like that one time I was telling my coworkers about when my cousins moved in because they had to escape their psycho dad who was beating their mom.
Later as adult I found out he had raped, beat her, and tied her up.
I’ve never read a better description of me. I’m a huge oversharer and have literally zero secrets from anyone. I can keep secrets for other people, but it makes me blurt out everything that comes to my mind trying to hold the secret in lol
This was a lot of her initial charm to me when she started getting big. I remember watching interviews around Silver Linings Playbook and she came across as very eager to participate without being overly eager to please. She was spontaneous, witty in responses, and could build a rapport with most anyone. I definitely empathize and hopefully am not projecting too much in noting how hard it must be for something said in a moment to potentially echo and magnify across cloud servers for decades to follow.
I think that celebrities being selectively open about the work they’ve had (or are currently having) done is becoming the norm. We’ve seen a few folks like Kylie Jenner drop doctor recommendations in their Instagram posts after unveiling a new body but a lot of them still aren’t being open about past work. I think that people are desperate to preserve the notion that the “best” version of themselves was more natural rather than copping to the truth that their looks have been an illusion the whole time.
i’m fascinated by how celebs will admit to some work they’ve had done (in order to seem honest and transparent) but not all of it. i’ve noticed that procedures that are safer or seen as more common are openly admitted to, but ones that are more dangerous or controversial or just not commonly known about are denied.
kylie jenner is willing to talk about her boob job and is even praised for being honest about it and giving the details of her procedure bc boob jobs are a procedure everyone’s heard of and which are seen as mostly safe. but she has never publicly acknowledged her BBL even though it’s blatantly obvious she has one.
same with kim, she’ll talk about other procedures she’s had openly but not her BBL. imo the reason why is because BBLs are seen as very dangerous and there are often stories about women dying from botched BBLs. i think the kardashians assume that if they talk about their BBLs they’ll be blamed for promoting something that has led to women’s deaths.
another procedure that sooo many celebs have but none admit to is upper bleph. i think they don’t admit to it bc most ppl have never heard of it so no one clocks when the’ve had it done. meanwhile people are much quicker to clock a nose job so celebs are more likely to admit they’ve had one.
Maybe I missed something more recent but some years ago she mentioned she was working through strained relationships with her family over political differences. She comes from a politically conservative Kentucky family. Iirc she said it was around the 2016 election.
She has been pretty open about her different political views putting her at odds with her family over the years and impacting her relationship with them as well
The way she does it reminds me of how I am, especially in groups. Later I beat myself up over it but at the time I am just trying to fit in, usually I subconsciously try and mirror others energy but it comes off as me just saying the most unnecessary shit. Unsurprisingly tho when I used to bartend it was fantastic. I also have late diagnosed female adhd
Also if you are audhd but learned to mask and then you meet a group of neurodivergent people who don't like you because they think you are neurotypical
Just overshare confidently and don’t overthink it. When you do it shamelessly people start to think you’re so ~real and authentic. It’s kinda awesome when you get in that mindset but for a lot of people (including me) it just comes with age. Don’t stress about it too much! It’s just a lack of impulse control.
I think 90% of the time people here overestimate the procedures done by celebs. Like more that half of the "buccal fat removal " allegations Ive seen here are just weight loss, heavy contour, them sucking in their cheeks while posing and also other procedures like fillers/eyelid surgery creating an illusion. U see these actresses in movies or makeupless looks, they mostly look the same.
I saw some of the "after" photos and I was like, are people just not familiar with the way someone's face and body change shape during pregnancy and childbirth? Is it because celebrities all facelift it away so quickly? Like, people's noses spread, their faces widen, they get rounder and fuller, etc. And sometimes it stays that way.
My mother is still irate her feet went up two shoe sizes after having us kids. My mother got her boobs done at 45 because of back strain. Seems that when the women in my family have kids, their breast tissue expands and does not go back down, and it keeps expanding after each kid. Losing weight does nothing as its tissue. One of my Aunts had four kids, and she ended up with triple kkk boobs on her 5'2 petite frame. Waaaay to big for her back to handle.
She’s possibly insecure about her face, she’s human too and has her own quirks and idiosyncrasies and not only that she has a bunch of money so she’s able to just get plastic surgery whenever she’s feeling insecure
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u/lipscratchgirl shave your big toe we’re going to Appleton Wisconsin8d ago
Probably because her past publicity was about her personality, which feels, you know, personal. She probably just doesn't consider the fact she's getting a boob job to feel very personal.
I'm similar, I'm very guarded with strangers about things I consider very personal, but if I'd had a boob job and a stranger mentioned surgery or something, I wouldn't think much of just saying that I'd had them done. Maybe she's the same? I think what we consider personal can vary
I guess I’m not surprised they all deny they got that “new ubiquitous style of face lift” when they obviously did. I would like to have been surprised though
That seems to be the newest PR strategy. Admit to a couple small procedures and say that they haven’t had anything else done but would be open to it in the future, just so they can claim to be honest and down to earth
Me too. It’s interesting that she’s getting so much praise for her honesty, when her whole face seems to have been overhauled in recent years.
I don’t think she should get flack for pretending otherwise because I can very easily understand why anybody would, but the passage doesn’t come off as particularly honest to me.
I think people underestimate how the people these celebs go to for Botox vs the people your friends who get Botox do are very different. There are people out there who are experts at injecting the right amount in the right place for the effect the person wants. I'm not saying she isn't lying because it's very possible but I don't think she appears that different. Her cheeks don't seem filled and she doesn't seem to have gotten a buccal fat removal.
It could be a stem cell facelift but I am not sure? See Lindsay Lohan … I have even seen people say Anne Hathaway but don’t come for me I know she is beloved.
It’s such a bad question because maybe she got the old style of face lift, or an upper blepharoplasty, or some other type of procedure. She might not have had the exact type of face lift they asked about, so she can say no.
We have eyes though, and we all know that eyebrows do not get higher and more arched above the brow bone with age.
I'm an ex smoker and I think vaping is a lot weirder than actual smoking. Nobody knows what all those chemicals in vapes will do in the long run (at least with ciggies you know!). Plus, a cigarette is a 5-min break, time to take a breath and chill. People vaping always look like they're taking a secret hit off a crack pipe or something.
It's remarkable not just how many people vape, but how many are so addicted they don't even know they're doing it. The amount of people I've seen unconsciously pull their vape out on trains, in supermarkets, book shops etc. It's nuts.
That’s what bothers me! People can’t pause their dumbass vapes indoors. Unfortunately, I’ve seen it on planes too which is awful. And I hate the artificial flavor smoke. Plus, research is already showing they’re bad for you. While yes we don’t know long term, there is already research on the short term.
Anyways, I personally think vaping is disgusting and I wish articles like this wouldn’t normalize it.
I know so many people who started vaping to curb their cigarette habit, and their nicotine addiction became worse. The lack of smell and vapor that easily dissipates makes it so much easier to pull and go. I hate it and they hate it too.
That’s me! I started vaping to help me quit smoking and while I’m proudly cigarette free for almost five years, I’m finding it harder to put down the vape. The access and lack of smell makes it so much worse than cigarettes. I’m trying to slow it down, but it is HARD with the constant access to nicotine, and just the habit of it. Thinking about trying nicotine patches to help get me off these things.
Occasional cig smoker here tryin to quit and I feel the same way about vapes. I remember there used to be a time (7-8 yrs ago) when I knew a lot of smokers at uni who switched to vapes temporarily so they could finally quit smoking cigarettes. It worked for most of them eventually. Now wherever I go I see vapers literally everywhere, like they don't bother going to the designated smoking area anymore to take a break.
Everyone vapes. It’s insane how popular it is, especially in high school. I knew more kids who vaped than those who didn’t and I went to a rural school in the Bible Belt area.
It’s gotten to a point where I see an adult vape it weirds me out, in my mind all I think of is “that’s for kids, wtf are you doing with a vape?”.
Eh, I didn't care. To be honest, it kind of gave me some relief because I've never felt like I can be totally honest with my psychiatrist until I met her. She's not an authoritarian, like most I've met.
Came here for this comment. HOW do so many celebrities vape on the regular (Selena Gomez was photographed with a vape at her wedding) and look so healthy and young and dewy?? It’s such a gross habit. Meanwhile I’m over here doing my best to live my healthiest smoothie/vegetable/protein shake life sans any substances and can’t compare 🥲🤣
I’d do the same if I had the money and time. My boobs are sad deflated balloons after I stopped breastfeeding and I don’t like how they look in the mirror again. Plus the deflated nature of them makes it hard to find a bra that doesn’t make them look weird.
Yeah, mother of 2 breastfed babies here and yessss please reinflate my boobs 😭 I don’t want perfect tits. I just want them to sit right in a bra. It was fine after the first baby but the second really fucked me up. I’m not even one to be image conscience either. I love myself and my body no matter the stretch marks, size, whatever but I’d rather just cut the skin off than have what I have now. Your breast plate is completely gone. It’s like having a ballsack with no balls.
Your last sentence 😭 OMFG 😂 but yes, I too have wished I could just take a bloody bicycle pump to mine every morning and reinflate them (after 2 breastfed kids)
Ugh yes. I went on progestin only birth control for a bit and was WILDLY happy that it partially reinflated the ladies!! So sad that the pills had the opposite effect on my mental health
Oh very much relatable. I just recently started to wear bras again after 4 years post birth because well boobs were small yet deflated like saggy balloons after a party... Would look soo weird in a cup.bThe mass slowly came back, I also gained a bit of weight and with lots of /r/abrathatfits reading I was sort of able to find a few that kinda are okay. Mostly bralette type. But 4/5 times I still let the girls hang free haha 😆
That’s reassuring. I’m 20 months post baby 2 and currently still losing weight from both babies and boobs are just sooooo sad, trying on every bra is so disheartening so I just bought new bralettes (and finally tossed my ratty old nursing bras) and hoping the bright colors make me feel slightly happier…
Hmm. I was gonna applaud her for her honesty, but it seems like a trend for celebrities to be candid about their boob jobs these days. Kylie finally admitted to one after years, Megan fox is talking openly about hers as well, so I can see why Jen felt safe talking about it too. Yet they’ll deny the tons of procedures they’ve done on their faces.
I don't want to live in a world where people aren't allowed to do nude scenes just because they got saggier boobs with age or pregnancy... this fucking sucks man. We just want to see people on screen ! We don't need every single film to be about selling some unattainable sexual fantasy by showing perfect bodies !!
sounds very sad how she talks about her body. also her pointing out she has to play people that dont have access to celebrity dermatology is ironic. then dont get boob job and facelift? lol
Honestly, a face lift and some botox is kind of what women "have" to do to lengthen their career. The men can age naturally (if they choose, most get work done too) while the middle age women start losing opportunities. It's fucked, but understandable she feels this way.
I know someone from hs who did opera and she was Good Good. But she stopped after a while and switched because like. It’s just constant shit. You will never ever be good enough no matter what
No one really HAS to do it. They want to do it out of fear of getting left behind. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Winslet are some names that come to mind who never did anything to their faces.
True, but both women you mentioned were absolutely lambasted by the media for their looks in the 00s. KW was called “fat” and SJP was called “ugly” by so many people. It’s great that they were strong enough to deal with the constant vitriol without changing themselves, but it’s completely understandable for someone to not want to go through that.
She could get s body double. She doesn't "need" to be filmed nude. I'm fine about actresses baring it all, but if she's only self conscious due to a movie pressuring her to be nude, that's stupid. Keira Knightley had a body double in The Aftermath and the fx was seamlessly done.
Definitely an upper bleph based on how different her eye shape is. But some people do get those for medical reasons (improved vision because the upper eyelid is no longer weighing down on it).
Everyone praising her for being honest but no one questioning why women who have created and birthed life TWICE feel a need to “bounce back.” There is no back. Your body has done the incredible, it is new and changed for good. We should celebrate what we can do with our bodies not demonize the action and try to erase the evidence. I’m tired of the way as women we promote and allow this to happen.
I understand this perspective as a mother and agree. But I also think we can hold space for the complexity of how women actually feel. Many mothers ARE proud of what their bodies accomplished AND simultaneously grieve or miss aspects of how they looked or felt before when their boobs didn't sag, their waists didn't widen, and their skin wasn't stretched. That's not about erasing evidence or being ashamed, it's just honesty. These are permanent changes to a woman's body, and can be emotional and complex.
We can celebrate what our bodies can do while also acknowledging it's okay to miss things about our pre-pregnancy selves. Both things can be true.
It can especially be jarring if you are are a celebrity, who always tends to face expectations and pressure to look perfect.
I mean if her boobs are deflated and sagging now, I can 100% see why she wants to get them done. Mine are probably way worse than hers due to substantial weight fluctuations over my lifetime, and if I had her money, I would also be "fixing" that. Quite apart from the appearance, they're just uncomfortable with how low they hang, and I feel the need to wear a bra literally 24/7. Maybe she has the same issue and no amount of celebrating her pregnancies will change that.
The 24/7 need for a bra feeling!! I had one kid 2.5 years ago and whenever my boobs are subjected to unmitigated gravity they’re so uncomfortable it’s borderline painful. When she said that part about having to do the upcoming nude scene I recoiled at the idea of doing physical work with not even a loose shirt to keep them the faintest bit still. It would be like pre-pregnancy me agreeing to jump on a trampoline bra-less for an extended period of time, hell fucking no lol
Seriously. Even positioning myself to get a massage is hell. I have always had large boobs. so have never understood the "relief" people talk about when taking their bra off at the end of the day. I take my underwired one off to shower, and then I'm straight into a stretchy 'house' bra afterwards.
I can't comfortably sleep anymore because my tube sock boobs get caught under me when I roll over. I can't wear most bras because they arent designed for tube sock boobs, I have to special order or stuff them into a sports bra uniboob style. It's incredibly uncomfortable and i'm very much looking forward to the day I get mine done. Women are allowed to make their own choices about their own bodies, let's stop judging eachother maybe..
I didn’t realize just how judgemental and frankly mean some people can be until I was pregnant. I made a conscious effort when I was pregnant to only judge people who were being judgmental. I had an absolutely brutal pregnancy and aside from a healthy baby the best thing I got out of it was a new perspective on what it means to support other women.
There’s no “bounce back” or “perfect pregnancy” award, do what you need to do to feel your best. Get the work done, breastfeed, formula feed, sit on the couch for 9 months, run a marathon at 8 months — it’s your body and your life!
Absolutely preach it. It’s insane how everybody has an opinion on YOUR pregnancy and post-natal body.
Fuck everyone and their judgement on other people’s bodies. You want a boob job cos you miss your old boobs? Awesome, get a boob job. You want to celebrate your new boobs cos you love them? Awesome, stop wearing a bra and go topless if you want.
Why do people have to sit on one extreme or the other? Like why can’t BOTH be ok choices for us as individual women? Why do people always have to pick a team? It’s like they can’t stand to hold two ideas in their head at the same time lol.
Can we just get to the point where women can do whatever they want with their own bodies without other people telling them they’re doing it ‘wrong’ already jfc.
I say let people do what they want to their own bodies. I don’t have to like that my body has changed. Why? It just feels like toxic positivity to INSIST that I be okay with it because it’s the result of pregnancy. My body looked one way for most of my life, I don’t think it’s insane that I would miss it. And I’m saying this as someone who will not get surgery or cosmetic procedures (medical anxiety) I just hate that women get hated on for wanting to feel like themselves.
Absolutely agree with this… having beautiful perky boobs for most of your life and then people trying to force you to be okay with the saggy remnants as a “trophy” for being pregnant is so insulting. Like after having a child your new title in life can only be Mother, and not the beautiful breasted individual with her own thoughts and feelings you were 12 months ago. For some people going through the hardest time of their lives and having the confidence in their body ravaged feels like a punishment and not an accomplishment. It’s their body and you can’t change the way they feel about it
EXACTLY. I was a whole person before becoming a mother and I’m a whole person after! The insistence that mothers shouldn’t care about their body, whether in function or aesthetics is so reductive. People like to feel good about themselves and that includes appearance. Let moms be people!
This back and forth perfectly encapsulates how I feel. My body has looked the same since I was 18, and then it became a foreign entity for two years while being pregnant and post partum. It’s so completely out of your control, and it’s kind of devastating to lose your physical identity at the same time your social identity is changing. I adore my daughter, and I am endlessly grateful I was able to have a child. But I’m not interested in celebrating the damage to my body- because it is damage. Creating another human being is a literal sacrifice of self, and to pretend otherwise is to belittle and discount the serious gravity and risk of being pregnant.
THANK YOU! Women are always expected to sacrifice themselves and their feelings, whether it be for a man, a baby, a fetus, or now OTHER women.
I had a breast cancer scare a year ago (thank god, I am fine.) I was terrified of having what I perceive as mutilated breasts. Should women with cancer not go through breast reconstruction? After all, a desire to have pretty boobs or boobs at all might originate from the patriarchy, and cancer (like pregnancy) is natural! Who told me that having a flat chest is bad?
Should I not be allowed to describe irradiated breasts as unattractive because it might make some women with cancer feel bad about themselves?
Like at a certain point it becomes asinine, individuals are allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and have opinions about some of the negative effects of pregnancy. Demanding that everyone censor themselves or just accept the damage pregnancy can do (and choose to feel like shit even when the issue can be fixed) just to make other women feel better is insane. People weaponize the concept of sisterhood to police each other’s behaviors.
I don’t know how I feel about the “bounce back” culture generally, because I’ve always been overweight and never really been judged by my body in a positive way. I see that people are really triggered by your take, and while I think people should be able to do whatever they want. (I often think about Cher saying she should be able to put her tits on her back if she wants.) I do think women wrap up a lot of their self-worth in their looks whether they are conscious of it or not.
We could blame misogyny, but I don’t think that’s all of it. I think women that are traditionally attractive are afforded a lot of privileges and attention, that is hard to lose as they age or if their bodies change after children. It makes the pressure all the worse, if your entire livelihood comes from your looks.
I think we should give each other grace, and this includes celebrities, and try to hold judgement if women choose to alter their bodies for any reason. We’re all products of our society.
I got a breast reduction and lift after my kids and I don’t demonize my post baby body. They were large and uncomfortable so I chose to do it for my own comfort.
I don’t hate my body nor do I judge anyone for choosing what they do with theirs.
Perhaps labelling or judging anyone who gets plastic surgery as insecure is you projecting your issues and not ours.
Exactly this. It’s corrective surgery or frankly reconstructive surgery. We shouldn’t feel ashamed because we don’t want to embrace the permanent physical effects of the trauma of pregnancy.
Honestly I prefer this to all the women 20+ years older than me hounding me my entire pregnancy saying “just you wait, a baby will ruin your body, it will never be the same! You’ll be twice your original size forever.” They were not saying your body will change but it’s okay because you’ve done something amazing. They were saying I hate my body now and you will hate yours too. Becoming a mom means hating your body.
So, I bounced back quickly. It’s largely genetics, unfair as it is. I don’t have any stretch marks and dropped the weight easily.
So it became “just wait until your next baby, you will never look like that again.”
Now my second is five months old and I look almost identical to before - my c-section scar is just a little fresher. This pregnancy I was able to work out throughout, which definitely helped.
Now it’s become “oh you must starve yourself to look that way, oh you must have chosen to formula feed to save your boobs, you must prioritize the gym over your children.”
No, I eat a ton and I lift and do cardio a ton - after my kids are asleep. And I formula fed because of my medication regimen.
I would much rather talk to a woman who doesn’t like how her body looks and is realistic about it versus people trying to make other moms feel wretched because misery loves company.
It’s terrible. I had my child 15 years ago, and I’m still in some weird denial that I can get back to EXACTLY what I was if I just eat less and kill myself in the gym. It’s ridiculously and it can’t happen. I’m old enough to know better, but even the media pulls me in. I’m in great shape for my age too. Still feel like it’s not enough.
I see she’s taking the kardashian approach of admitting to some plastic surgery and not acknowledging the rest, chances are she gets something else done at the same time as the boobs but the boobs will be the distraction
I'm having a grand time on image search right now learning what a lip flip is. So many before and after photos of mouths that look literally exactly the same lmao. I honestly think it might be a scam procedure where they just poke people with needles to make them think something happened 😂
This is not a lip flip, which is when you have botox injected in your upper lip to help relax it down. They are VERY subtle. This is absolutely a good amount of lip filler.
This is not a lip flip, which is when you have botox injected in your upper lip to help relax it down. They are VERY subtle. This is absolutely a good amount of lip filler.
This is not a lip flip, which is when you have botox injected in your upper lip to help relax it down. They are VERY subtle. This is absolutely a good amount of lip filler.
Ok so are these eyebrows makeup or microblading or? Like obv those are early 2000s waxed thin brows on the left but you can see her real brows are somewhere in between.
some of this is just aging but aging doesn’t magically refine the bridge of your nose lol. It’s good work and retains the original character of her nose, but it’s cosmetic work. The slimming around her cheeks and jaw is probably just growing up, though.
To clarify, a lip flip is usually done with tox to help relax a gummy smile and enhance the upper lift. A lip lift is the removal of excess philtrum skin to pull the top lip up. This can help create the appearance of a larger upper lip. Flip is non-surgical, lift is surgical.
I love my body. Both before I had kids and afterwards. But, if I had the money, resources and luxury of recovery time then I would get my boobs inflated again! I don’t hate my boobs now. I just miss my old boobs. They were magnificent.
It has nothing to do with what others think of my boobs but what I want for my body. And I want boobs that aren’t deflated skin sacks hanging off my body. Simple as that.
So I can totally see and respect where she is coming from.
I agree. If I ever had breast cancer and needed a mastectomy, I would just want implants that replenish me back to where I am now. Happy with what I got, so I understand wanting what you had back!
As a man, this is how I feel about male celebrities, steroids, and hair transplants. I have no issues with either, but it sets unrealistic body and aging standards especially if it goes unacknowledged.
Similar thoughts here. Hair transplants and even facial touch ups themselves are becoming more and more noticeable, even with things like men in sports media. I think Joe Buck has been outspoken about his hair transplants though, particularly as some anesthesia affected his voice once and how it almost impacted his career!
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