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Hayden Panettiere talks pregnancy weight gain

Petite star Hayden Panettiere says she’s struggling with the weight that she’s gained while awaiting the birth of first child with her boxer fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko.

Petite star Hayden Panettiere says she’s struggling with the weight that she’s gained while awaiting the birth of first child with her boxer fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko.

Petite star Hayden Panettiere says she’s struggling with the weight that she’s gained while awaiting the birth of first child with her boxer fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko.

Hayden, 25, and Wladimir, 38, announced that they were expecting back in May, and since then, the actresses weight has ballooned. Of course, that’s exactly what should happen when you’re pregnant! For the tiny gymnast though, the sudden weight gain has proved to be a bit of a struggle.

Actress Hayden Panettiere is expecting!

“I started out at 106 pounds and guess how much I weight now? Around 145 pounds!” Hayden revealed to Hello! magazine. “And the worst part is that my feet are still size five and they’re going, ‘What’s going on with all this weight?’ They’re about to snap from underneath me with the strain.”

She is realistic about the weight gain though, as it’s normal and healthy: “I’m still quite muscular, so if you’re running around carrying 40 pounds of extra weight, you’re going to build extra muscle,” Hayden said.

Pregnant stars show off their bumps 

That’s not to say though that she won’t be keen to shift the weight once she and Wladimir (who announced their engagement in October last year) welcome the baby: “I’ll tell you one thing for sure: I am not walking down the aisle 40 pounds heavier than usual in a wedding dress with a huge pregnancy belly stitched in,” she said. “Not happening.”

It sounds like it will all be worth it though as the young star is thrilled about motherhood: “I’m so ready to hold my baby girl — I’m going to be a very hands-on mom,” she said, adding “I’m thrilled that I am having a girl first because I feel like I know a lot about raising a strong woman. I feel very empowered myself and I think my daughter will, too.”

Hayden’s not the first celebrity to experience the epic weight fluctuations of pregnancy, see how she compares to other pregnant stars.

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Petite actress and former gymnast Hayden Panettiere says she’s struggling with the weight that she’s gained while awaiting the birth of first child with her boxer fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko.

Hayden and Wladimir announced their engagement in October last year and Hayden says: “I’ll tell you one thing for sure: I am not walking down the aisle 40 pounds heavier than usual in a wedding dress with a huge pregnancy belly stitched in,” she said. “Not happening.”

Hayden showed off her bump on in a racy leopard-inspired Halloween costume that she shared on Twitter.

Kim Kardashian shed over 20kgs before her wedding to Kanye West after giving birth to baby North last year, but in August this year, she still wasn’t happy: “off to an intense workout. Can’t seem to shake this last 15-20 lbs of baby weight. no more excuses. my baby is 1 years old! UGH,” she tweeted.

Jessica Simpson’s weight fluctuations over her two pregnancies in the last three years have been well documented. She lost 22kg after the birth of her first child, daughter Maxwell, in May 2012. Five months later she got the surprise news that she was pregnant with her second child, son Ace. These days she’s a Weight Watchers spokeswoman and is looking slimmer than ever!

Duchess Catherine’s baby body bounced back almost immediately after the birth of Prince George, with a source tell Us Weekly she’s “hardly done anything to lose the weight”.

Now in her second pregnancy, slender Kate’s baby bump is barely visible – she’s still got a way to go yet though with baby number 2 not due until April next year.

Gisele Bundchen said that she “gained only 30 pounds…I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week.” It wasn’t long before she was back on the catwalk in bikinis either!

Christina Aguilera welcomed her baby girl with her fiancé Matt Rutler in August and said that while she was pregnant she craved charred, burnt foods like blackened barbecued meat. But no doubt, there’ll be no BBQ grills for her anymore!

Kate Hudson said of her first pregnancy with son Ryder: “I gained almost 70 pounds, and I had to lose it in three and a half months. There was nothing fun about it.”

Supermodel Milla Jovovich is now pregnant for the second time, and she said of her first pregnancy: “I gained nearly 70 pounds. It took a year to put on that weight and a year to take it off.”

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