Kate's down to earth with her bump
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July 26, 2013, Friday
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AS Kate and William showed off the royal baby in London, what caught the eye of many women was not just the new heir to the British throne but the Duchess of Cambridge's post-childbirth silhouette: that little bump under her pretty polka-dot dress.
"I love that she came out and there was a mommy tummy. It was there! We all saw it!" said Lyss Stern of New York City, who remembers turning down offers of a girdle and diet pills after her first child was born nine years ago.
Stern added that Kate was sending "the right message," in stark contrast to Hollywood celebrities who are shown "three weeks after childbirth with a flat stomach and G-string bikini. That's not real."
Even those who make a living getting new moms into shape applauded Kate. "I'm thrilled that she went out there like that, because we never see real mommy tummies," said Helene Byrne, a personal trainer in Oakland, California, who specializes in pre- and post-natal exercise.
"When you see a magazine or photos of new celebrity moms, they're Photoshopped. They're fake! They're a big lie!"
The Daily Beast even ran a headline saying Kate's "unabashed baby belly busts the last taboo of pregnancy."
We don't know whether Kate consciously chose to send a message that this is what new mothers really look like, or whether she didn't realize - or didn't care - how obvious her tummy would be.
Either way, she un-self-consciously handed the baby off to her husband rather than using the newborn to camouflage her figure from the cameras and crowds when she emerged from the hospital on Tuesday.
But some new moms do swear by girdles. Josephine Giraci, of Lloyd Neck, NY, says the best piece of advice she got before her first child was born 11 years ago was to pack a girdle in her maternity bag.
She wore it for three months after giving birth. "I slept in it and everything," said Giraci.
Dr Robert Atlas, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, said the "bulge that women have after they deliver" is mostly loose skin and fat.
He said breast-feeding can help new mothers lose the weight but he doesn't recommend girdles as a way to lose baby weight - though women who have cesarean sections do wear a binder-like accessory to support abdominal muscles.
"I love that she came out and there was a mommy tummy. It was there! We all saw it!" said Lyss Stern of New York City, who remembers turning down offers of a girdle and diet pills after her first child was born nine years ago.
Stern added that Kate was sending "the right message," in stark contrast to Hollywood celebrities who are shown "three weeks after childbirth with a flat stomach and G-string bikini. That's not real."
Even those who make a living getting new moms into shape applauded Kate. "I'm thrilled that she went out there like that, because we never see real mommy tummies," said Helene Byrne, a personal trainer in Oakland, California, who specializes in pre- and post-natal exercise.
"When you see a magazine or photos of new celebrity moms, they're Photoshopped. They're fake! They're a big lie!"
The Daily Beast even ran a headline saying Kate's "unabashed baby belly busts the last taboo of pregnancy."
We don't know whether Kate consciously chose to send a message that this is what new mothers really look like, or whether she didn't realize - or didn't care - how obvious her tummy would be.
Either way, she un-self-consciously handed the baby off to her husband rather than using the newborn to camouflage her figure from the cameras and crowds when she emerged from the hospital on Tuesday.
But some new moms do swear by girdles. Josephine Giraci, of Lloyd Neck, NY, says the best piece of advice she got before her first child was born 11 years ago was to pack a girdle in her maternity bag.
She wore it for three months after giving birth. "I slept in it and everything," said Giraci.
Dr Robert Atlas, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, said the "bulge that women have after they deliver" is mostly loose skin and fat.
He said breast-feeding can help new mothers lose the weight but he doesn't recommend girdles as a way to lose baby weight - though women who have cesarean sections do wear a binder-like accessory to support abdominal muscles.
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