MOMENT | Accepting your post baby body with Olympian Rebecca Adlington

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Accepting your body during motherhood isn't always simple. This week's moment is with 4 x Olympic medalist Rebecca Adlington, where she talks about navigating her body transformation after having children, the mindset of body negativity and why mum's often find it hard to take a compliment. Continue the Conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.5	What's your relationship been like with your body during and post motherhood? Have you been able to
0:56.1	keep that really positive love for your body? I think it's a strange one with having kids.
1:02.4	I think when I had summer, it was kind of one of those. I was probably in the best shape of my life
1:07.8	when I had summer. So then to obviously my body just massively changing
1:12.3	afterwards. And I managed within pretty much, I think it was around a year, I got back into
1:18.4	some sort of, I wouldn't say shape because I wasn't super fit or anything. But I was able after that
1:25.4	year to wear the clothes I had pre-baby and things.
1:29.2	I felt kind of more comfortable in that aspect because I was like, okay, I've changed a little bit and I've got a bit more of a tummy pouch.
1:36.8	I call it my little tie, my little pouch that just hangs like a little kangaroo.
1:40.9	But it's one of those that I had a bit more of that, but I was really accepting of it.
1:45.3	It wasn't until I've had Albi that my body shape massively changed, as in I'm now way bigger.
1:54.5	I'm now a size 14. I can't fit in any of my clothes after that. And it's been nearly two years
1:59.5	since I had Albi. So my body shape has now
2:02.0	massively changed. It's like a proper tummy now that's like it doesn't go anywhere. And it's one of
2:08.4	those stretch marks, cellulite, everything else. And I think at first I really struggled with that
2:14.7	aspect. And I was like, I need to go back to the gym and I need to do this.
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