Being Pregnant
Bethenny Frankel: Skinny Girl or Skinny Bitch?
There seem to be only two modes of discussion on the topic of postpartum weightloss: it’s either the Michelle-Obama-task-force-on-obesity-PSA approach or the You-Anorexic-Bitch approach.
Here is an excellent example of the You-Anorexic-Bitch approach: According our friends over at PAGE SIX, some women aren’t thrilled by Bethenny Frankel’s seemingly miracle baby weight loss. She shouldn’t gloat. She shouldn’t exercise so soon. She shouldn’t be this thin!! Well, yeah. It’s pretty unusual for a woman to lose almost 30 pounds in 3 weeks. But it happens. And it’s not necessarily unhealthy.
She did start out small, and she’s gone back to small. She exercised during pregnancy– which is fine and even recommended– and she’s been walking 30 minutes a day postpartum which sounds reasonable.
But don’t listen to me defend the poor housewife: I have been on Team Bethenny since day one and can hardly sit still I’m so excited about tonight’s RHONY finale. Maybe she is, in fact, just an anorexic bitch.
But the fact is, postpartum weight loss is complicated. Most of us are neither obese nor anorexic. We’re just stuck with the pregnancy we get. The genes we have. And whatever time (and energy) we can cobble together postpartum. So I guess I’m ending on another generic pregnancy note: different postpartum weight loss realities, for different folks.
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Tricia commented on Jun 04 10 at 9:42 amIt’s silly to condemn or name-call when someone gets lucky in this one respect.
Here’s what the world doesn’t need, however: A book from Ms. Frankel telling other women to take it off the same way she did.
Rachel commented on Feb 01 11 at 4:47 pmI have no opinion about Bethenny Frankel but I agree that in many cases how fast you lose the baby weight is out of your control.
When I was pregnant with my first son, and I will say that I was definitely not skinny when I first got pregnant, I gained 36 pounds. One week after delivering him I had already lost 25 pounds by basically doing nothing. I had retained so much fluid during my pregnancy that after he was born it all came out.
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