Getting sick of seeing pictures of celebrities who are already slim one month after giving birth? So was Bonnie Crowder. She started a website, Shape of a Mother, and posted photos of her stretch marks. Soon she was getting tons of photos and essays from other moms, even (gasp) naked ones. "'Instead of seeing them as just stretch marks and an ugly scar, now you
can see them as the mark that your body did something amazing,' said
Crowder." Many of the women share their feelings about their bodies after during and pregnancy, and to my knowledge not one used the celeb weight-loss method of plastic surgery and a wet nurse a crash diet and five-hour daily sessions with a personal trainer.
The idea is pretty cool, since we get enough pressure to be bikini-ready, and perhaps aren't prepared for the "when are you due?" questions you get when you go out sans baby two weeks after delivery. I know for some of us, the notion that breastfeeding makes all that weight fall right off is just crap. The only thing breastfeeding made fall was my boobs. Most of the photos on the site are of bellies, but naturally I immediately clicked on "vaginal trauma". No photos there, and I'm sort of relieved. If yet-to-breed women saw pictures of the hoo hoo one month post-birth, it could spell the end of the species.
