Kate Winslet has opened up in a recent interview about how she has neither the time nor the inclination to indulge in crazy posy-baby body diets.
In a refreshingly candid chat with the UK’s Harper’s Bazaar the Oscar-winning actress and mother-of-three expressed her strong views about the pressure women face after they give birth.
“I so didn’t want to be one of those ‘Oh, wow, she’s back in shape after 12 weeks’ women,” said actress, now based in rural Sussex in the U.K. “When I read things like that, I just think, ‘Oh, for f–k’s sake, that’s actually impossible.'”
Kate, 39, who gave birth to her third child, a son, Bear 15-months ago, said she has realistic expectations since having three babies.
“I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well fed and happy,” she said. “My body will never go back to what it was and I wouldn’t expect it to after three babies.”
Kate also offered parents advice about teaching kids the importance of struggling.
“I think it’s very important to teach your children to struggle on some level,” Winslet, said in the publication’s March cover story. “I wouldn’t change a thing. Even all the bad bits. It doesn’t matter how [bad] times have been, they all matter, because those things shape who you are.”
Kate isn’t the only celebrity to be real about dropping those extra pregnancy pounds. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kristen Bell and Jessica Simpson also have also spoken out on the topic.
Kate isn’t the only celebrity to be real about dropping those extra pregnancy pounds.
Jennifer Love Hewitt didn’t subscribe to intense dieting after the birth of her daughter, Autumn in November 2013. The actress told E! Online: “If your priorities are right, the baby’s most important. You have to eat to feed your baby. And I have a girl, so I want her to see some day why her mum has good self-esteem and good body issues. It gets you down sometimes – I’m not going to lie. I’ve had days where I’m like, ‘Ugh, I wish this was easier.’ But it’s not, and that’s OK.”
Singer and Weight Watchers spokesperson Jessica Simpson took a practical approach to dropping the weight she gained after her second child Ace Knute Johnson: “I’m taking it week-by-week so I don’t get frustrated with myself,” she told ABC News. “If I had a long-term goal and that’s all I thought about, I think it would set me back more.”
After the birth of her first child, Lincoln Shepard, Frozen star Kristen Bell was asked if she had any trouble accepting her body since being pregnant. Her response was perfect! “Of course – I mean, change is hard no matter what it is. Especially when it’s weight gain, but you know, it’s easy to focus on the negatives and completely disregard the fact that you’re making another human,” Bell told the reporter. “You’re participating in the most beautiful cycle that this earth will allow—who cares if you put on weight for a few months or a year or two years? In the grand scheme of things, I refuse to let it bother me. And it makes me really sad that a lot of women are so susceptible to letting it bother them because we choose as human beings and as media to let the narrative on pregnant women be all about body size.”
After the birth of her daughter Willow super fit singer Pink told People getting back into top shape wasn’t a cinch. “It was slow because I literally couldn’t even do a sit-up,” she told the glossy. “I’d had to have an emergency C-section so I was numb. And exhausted. I was really afraid because my whole life is based on abs and core.”
Hip hop artist and red carpet exhibitionist Amber Rose was surprisingly candid when she told E! Online she tipped the scales at nearly 100 kilos when pregnant with her son Sebastian. “It’s hard to get off baby weight,” she said. “It’s a different kind of weight because for nine months you stretch your stomach out, and then it’s hard to get that back.”
In 2012, just a few months after given birth to her son Luca, Hillary Duff told Us Weekly that while she craved for her former bod after her baby, she could see that there was a big reward in her sacrifice. “I think if you ask any pregnant mom, they’re like ‘I want my body back,'” said Duff. “But it takes time. It takes nine months for your body to get that way, and it’s putting on that weight on purpose. The second I start to get down like, ‘What happened to my body?’ I look at my beautiful baby—and I’ve never been more appreciative for this body that I have.”
