A woman’s body goes through a lot of changes throughout the years, weight gain after pregnancy for instance can be one of the most difficult challenges for a woman to overcome. Women are constantly reminded and pressured through the media that being overweight is not fashionable and is not accepted in our society. Following celebrities such as kim Kardashian, Jenniffer Lopez, Penelope Cruz, Heidi Klum, Beyonce and many other Hollywood stars, who have a baby and weeks after are back to a size 2 0r 4, has created idealistic ideas in regular women who think that they should look just like their celebrity after having a child. The problem is that many women fail to realize that these celebrities have money to pay for plastic surgeries after having a child and receive the help that regular moms do not have. Celebrities have a 24 hr baby sitter who helps with the kids, they have house keeping, a cook and personal trainer to help them achieve the glamorous image they need in order to get back to work. Unfortunately, working class women can not afford all these luxuries, instead they fantasize with becoming skinny right after giving birth only to find themselves overly stressed out, upset, disappointed and obsessed with their weight gain. Women will try every diet on the planet, buy all kinds of diet pills and excessively work out to no avail.
In the fashion industry it is clearly known that beauty comes in small sizes. The constant reminder that women need to have a small waist in order to fit the pretty clothes makes a lot of new moms even more frustrated when they want to shop for certain outfits but because they know they will not look like the models in the magazines or the models on TV, they end up buying extra bigger clothes making them look out fashioned and out dated. Moms realize that their weight is even a bigger problem when they go to certain department stores and they can not find their size or the same styles as the one the mannequins are displaying at the window.
Facebook and Instagram for example; are one of the biggest ways a new mom can feel hopeless when it comes to their weight after having a child. Many new mothers become other females followers in social media because of how they look and because of the way they dress. The problem is that some of the people they are following sometimes have plastic surgeries or other surgeries like the gastric bypass in order to achieve their physique.
New mothers go through many different changes when they are pregnant, not only physically but also mentally and emotionally. Many feel like worrying so much about their weight and their looks just makes it harder to shed the extra pounds. The problem is that there is no way out from the constant reminder and the pressure from social media that women have to look like celebrities in order to be considered sexy and beautiful.
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