The Slimming Secret of Glamour's "Best New Bodies": Childbirth

Dear Glamour,

Just a quick note about this page from your January issue:

Sure, her pregnant body was a significant departure from her usual peak shape, but carrying twins does not qualify Jennifer Lopez as the “before” in a weight-loss story—unless you’re touting the miraculous tummy-flattening benefits of giving birth.

Wait...are you?

Love,

Glossed Over

Comments

[nonlineargirl]

Well, I am certainly hoping that after the twins are born that my stomach is smaller than right before they come out!

What gets me about this is that they are saying "how great that she slimmed down" as if pregnancy was a category of weight problem.

[Abby]

Oooh, sign me up - I'm sure having a kid is way easier than going to the gym.

[Jessica]

Wow having babies can help your stomach look flatter. Crap, I should have knocked myself up sooner! Way to sell motherhood to the emotionally unattached.

[Jessica M.]

Even if they were trying to say how great it is she can look that good after having twins (though I'm guessing by comments this isn't the case), I get the feeling that carrying any after-birth weight for any amount of time would have doomed her to criticism. Most women I know eventually lost their baby weight in a slow and natural way, but ironically the "exceptional" way in which celebrities drop off their baby weight is really not so exceptional, but expected.

Of course, this is a moot point, seeing as we're looking at the pregnancy itself as a weight issue...absurd. Perhaps this is Glamour's attempt to appear generous with positive feedback, in that while they obviously consider it unfortunate that women would have to gain such "weight" at all, they can at least have the benefit of losing "it" quickly. So I guess the pregnancy as fad thing is done?

[Middle Aged Dater]

I'm sure that being rich with more then one personal trainer and no 9-5 job to schlep to each day had nothing to do with it.

Why oh why won't someone just marry my fat belly and I and but me out of my misery?

[Phyaflyjones]

Very big WTF moment. Some things just evade common sense.

[Rebecca]

This is something that has always pissed me off. Magazines always use late in the pregnancy photos are 'before' pictures, and for some reason I always felt like I was the only person who noticed it.