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MOMENT | Why you should love your pregnant body with Louise Boyce

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 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. In this week's MOMENT, fashion model and author Louise Boyce talks us through the importance of needing to love your body during pregnancy. She speaks about not being accepted as a model and how she regained her confidence. Continue the Conversation Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Baby Show Tickets: https://babyshowexcel.seetickets.com/tour/the-baby-show?offercode=MOTHERKINDW 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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And you had this sort of parallel transition as well around your work because you had this horrific experience.

0:57.3

So you were basically told that, you know, now you're pregnant and you would never get to model again.

1:01.5

Tell us about how on earth you handled all of that as well.

1:05.0

Yeah, that did not help the situation at all.

1:08.0

So yes, after like being a successful curve model for, I think, 12 years before I became a

1:14.5

mother, when I became pregnant, obviously I had to tell my agency. And obviously, they were very

1:19.3

happy for me. But they're also like, well, thanks very much. Good luck. See you later. And I was

1:25.9

like, oh my God. So I've just lost my job and I'm becoming a

1:30.8

mother and I don't have a job and I have no idea what I'm like getting paid. And that was really

1:36.1

tough because I never expected to become a mother with those thoughts. I didn't feel financially

1:43.9

stable. I never thought I'd have to

1:46.1

lean on my husband as much as I do. I've always made my own money. And that also made me feel like I'd

1:52.3

lost myself, lost my identity, lost my confidence. When the baby arrived, I found myself like asking

1:58.7

my mom and my husband for money just to like, you know,

2:01.7

go and buy nappies and stuff. You know, you don't get a maternity package when you're self-employed

2:07.2

or, you know, you get bare minimum. So that was really tough. But I do really believe,

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