Does Vic Have Baby Fever?! Motherhood, Postpartum, & Body-Image w/ Ally Kendricks

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4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Vic's got a big confession to make… the baby fever has officially started! And who better to dive into the realities of motherhood than her friend Ally Kendricks, model, content creator, former athlete, mental health advocate, and mom of two. Ally gets real about the challenges of pregnancy, postpartum healing, and body image struggles, sharing how navigating those changes, especially as a former athlete, helped heal her relationship with food and fitness. She also opens up about parenting dynamics with her NFL husband Eric, finding balance between gentle parenting and discipline, refusing to feel guilt about asking for help, and her choice to keep her kids offline. Whether you’re a new mom, future mom, or just curious about this next chapter, tune in for a refreshing perspective shift on motherhood as an addition to your life, not something to fear.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.3	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.1	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.7	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to RealPod. I'm excited for today's episode because this might come as a little bit of a shocker. Maybe not. But I've definitely started to get some baby fever. Okay. I'll talk about it more in the episode. So stay tuned for that. But I'm thinking more about what it would mean to be a mom, to get pregnant, to have kids. And I thought, what better way than to explore this with
1:12.9	my friend, Ali Kendricks? Ali Kendricks is a friend of mine who I've known in the business for
1:18.5	about four years. She is a model, a content creator, a mental health advocate, which I've
1:23.8	always admired her for and been inspired by. She's also the wife of Eric Kendricks,
1:28.6	who is an NFL linebacker, and she is now a young, hot mom of two kids. Allie's 32, and her son,
1:37.3	Knight, is three, and her daughter, Max, is one. And today she's going to be getting real
1:42.0	about pregnancy, motherhood, postpartum, body image, parenting, posting your kids on social media, gentle parenting, all the things.
1:51.4	We're really going to dive into it today.
1:53.0	This is such a fun interview, whether you are a new mom, you're a mom who wants to reflect on the good old early days, or you're like me and you don't have kids, but you are really interested in what being a mom might do to your life. Before we get started,
2:06.0	I want to give a quick shout out to one of you lovely RealPod listeners. This one goes out to Zoe.
2:11.5	Zoe says, five stars, my favorite podcast. I've been listening to RealPod for about a year now,
2:16.2	and I just love the content. I loved the episode recently with Vic and Max. Them opening up about heartbreak and coping with a relationship really hit home for me since I've gone through something similar. I think listening to this podcast is maybe a better person and partner. Vic, thank you for everything you do and for teaching us. It's okay to be vulnerable. This is so sweet, Zoe. Thank you so much.
2:39.9	I'm trying to think about, are you referring, you must be referring to the episode I did with Max on men's mental health, because I think that's where we got into coping within a relationship and all
2:45.4	that. So if you haven't listened to Max's episode on men's mental health, it's a really good one,
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