Hottest Celeb Post-Baby Bods - Prime Ssh Engagenl Digest

2019-04-19T19:27:46+00:00monthly0.7<![CDATA[Hottest Celeb Post-Baby Bods]]><![CDATA[Celebrities have a way of making bouncing back look easy. But it was even hard work forBeyoncé, who started preparing for Coachella just six months after welcoming her twins Rumi and Sir in June 2017.“I became vegan temporarily, gave up coffee, alcohol and all fruit drinks,” the Grammy winner told Vogue in August 2018. “But I was patient with myself and enjoyed my fuller curves.”The singer, who also shares daughter Blue Ivy with her husband, Jay-Z, has embraced her new shape. “To this day my arms, shoulders, breasts and thighs are fuller,” she told the magazine. “I have a little mommy pouch, and I’m in no rush to get rid of it. I think it’s real. Whenever I’m ready to get a six-pack, I will go into beast mode and work my ass off until I have it.”Click through the pictures below to see the transformations of other mamas including Duchess Kate, Cardi B and Christina Aguilera.]]><![CDATA[Janet Montgomery]]><![CDATA[“To my critics and haters, yes I posted this to my Story to make all other women who have been pregnant and don’t immediately have flat stomachs [feel] bad about themselves,” the This Is Us alum sarcastically wrote on Instagram in April 2019, one month after giving birth. “That was my goal, obviously. It had nothing to do with my own vanity and nothing to do with me feeling proud of my body.”]]><![CDATA[April Love Geary]]><![CDATA["6 weeks postpartum," the model captioned an underwear mirror selfie in April 2019. Geary and her fiancé, Robin Thicke, welcomed their second daughter, Lola, in February 2019.]]><![CDATA[Cardi B]]><![CDATA[Less than six weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Kulture, Cardi B returned to the stage at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards to accept the award for Best New Artist on August 20, 2018. “A couple of months ago, a lot of people were saying, you know, ‘You are gambling your career. You about to have a baby, what are you doing?’” the rapper told the crowd. “You know, I had a baby, I carried a baby, and I’m still winning awards!]]><![CDATA[Duchess Kate]]><![CDATA[The pressure was on! Duchess Kate gave birth to her third child, Prince Louis,on April 27, 2018. Three weeks later, she looked svelte at Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s wedding.]]><![CDATA[Katherine Heigl]]><![CDATA[Proud of her hard work. Katherine Heigl, who welcomed son Joshua Jr. in December 2017, showed off a series of progress photos on her blog in February 2018. The Knocked Up actress wrote: “It’s been almost 14 months since Joshua Jr was born and it has taken me about that long to really get back in shape.”]]><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana]]><![CDATA[OMG! Zoe Saldana stepped out in April 2015, welcoming her twin boys Bowie and Cy with husband Marco Perego in January 2015.]]><![CDATA[Christina Aguilera]]><![CDATA[In November 2014, three months after welcoming daughter Summer with Matthew Rutler, Christina Aguilera sizzled on the red carpet in a clingy red dress.]]><![CDATA[Beyoncé]]><![CDATA[Putting the B in bouncing back! Beyoncé, who gave birth to twins Rumi and Sir in June 2017, showed off her jaw dropping physique in October of that year. The Grammy winner revealed to Vogue that she weighed 218 pounds the day she delivered.]]><![CDATA[Khloé Kardashian]]><![CDATA[Check out those abs! Khloé Kardashian, who gave birth to daughter True in April 2018, flashed her flat stomach in August of the same year.]]><![CDATA[Kim Kardashian]]><![CDATA[After being criticized throughout her pregnancy with daughter North over her weight and maternity style, Kardashian followed the Atkins Diet to help her shed the pounds after giving birth in June 2013. "I still have some [baby weight] to go," the reality star told London's Sunday Times Style in October 2013. "Atkins worked for me and I don't feel tempted to eat a bunch of junk food. It's just about staying healthy -- it will come off."]]><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]><![CDATA[Five months after welcoming son Maceo, Berry showed off her slim figure in sexy, black vintage Versace gown on the red carpet of the Fame & Philanthropy Post Oscar Party in March 2014 "There's no secret, I've just lived a healthy lifestyle," she old U.K. magazine Total Film in August 2013. "I only work out like three times a week, 30 minutes a pop. That and good clean living. As I'm getting older it's just paying off."]]><![CDATA[Holly Madison]]><![CDATA["Sure, as anyone would, I hope to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, in a healthy way, as soon as possible," Madison blogged in March 2013 a couple weeks after giving birth to daughter Rainbow. "It's perfectly normal for a woman to walk out of the hospital after giving birth still looking a good six to seven months pregnant."]]><![CDATA[Adele]]><![CDATA["I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me -- 'Test pilot for pies' -- but I've always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it," Adele said in her biography, penned by Chas Newkey-Burden, released one month after she gave birth to October 2012. "I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't."]]><![CDATA[Kourtney Kardashian]]><![CDATA[As exclusively revealed in a January 2013 issue Us Weekly, the reality star lost 44 pounds in six months after giving birth to daughter Penelope in July 2012. She credited pro Tracy Anderson's 90-minute dance-focused workouts and small portion sizes for helping her slim down in record time. "This time, the focus is really on being a mom and being present, knowing my priorities," Kardashian told Us.]]><![CDATA[Drew Barrymore]]><![CDATA["I'm still working on it, but I'm not worrying about it," the actress told Good Housekeeping in January 2013 after welcoming daughter Olive in September. "I'm never going to have the kind of body that makes me excited about bikini season. I've never had a 'beach body.' But I want to feel like I'm showing up and doing my best. My goal is to be nice to myself, gentle toward myself, during this process. It's such a sacred time.]]><![CDATA[Uma Thurman]]><![CDATA["I was so surprised at how many things seemed new again," Thurman told Net-a-Porter in February 2014 after welcoming her third child, daughter Luna, in 2012 at age 42. (The actress is also mom to daughter Maya, born in 1998, and son Levon, born in 2002, with ex-husband Ethan Hawke.) "You're a different person. When you have a child in the early side of your child-bearing years -- which for a New Yorker means there's still a two in front of your age, as opposed to a three or a four -- you're changing so much as a person; you're so volatile. You think you're grown up, but you're a child yourself."]]><![CDATA[Camila Alves]]><![CDATA[After having a difficult pregnancy with her third child, son Livingston, in December 2012, Alves had focus on dieting rather than exercising to lose the weight. "I can't even pick up my kids, really. I really have to be careful," Matthew McConaughey's wife explained on the View in March. "I've got another four weeks to go."]]><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]><![CDATA["I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff," Portman said in an interview with the Q100 Bert Show in April 2011 during her pregnancy with son Aleph. "I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff."]]><![CDATA[Fergie]]><![CDATA["I'm mixing it up. I'm doing hikes. I'm doing yoga mixed with belly dancing," the Black Eyed Peas singer told ABC News in January 2014 after giving birth to son Axl in August 2013. "It's just a fun, different thing. I did it while I was pregnant. I really enjoyed it so I've kept it through."]]><![CDATA[Jennifer Garner]]><![CDATA["I actually stayed in really good shape the whole time I was pregnant, and I was really careful with what I ate this time," the actress told Wonderwall four months after giving birth to her third child, so Samuel in February 2012. "[But] for whatever reason, my body just wanted to gain more weight, and luckily this time, for whatever reason, my body wanted to lose it. I don't know. I still have a little ways to go, but I'm grateful that as much has come off as it has."]]><![CDATA[Claire Danes]]><![CDATA[The Homeland actress kept busy during her pregnancy with son Noah, born in December 2012. "I was on my feet a lot during the pregnancy," she told reporters at the Golden Globes less than a month after giving birth. "I was working hard. So I didn't have an opportunity to gain much."]]><![CDATA[Jessica Alba]]><![CDATA[Extreme measures! "I wore a double corset day and night for three months," the actress told Net-a-Porter of her weight loss strategy after daughter Haven's birth in August 2011. "It was sweaty, but worth it."]]><![CDATA[Jenna Dewan-Tatum]]><![CDATA[That didn't take long at all! Jenna Dewan-Tatum got back to work promoting TV show The Witches of East End just a little over a month after giving birth to baby girl Everly (with husband Channing Tatum), and the former dancer looked stunning. "It's hard," she told reporters about adjusting to life as a working mom. "It's a juggle, but I kind of feel like every mom who goes back to work feels this."]]><![CDATA[Miranda Kerr]]><![CDATA[There must be some magic in that Angel dust! Miranda Kerr walked the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show runway in a show-stopping $2.5 million diamond-studded bra in November 2011, less than a year after giving birth to baby Flynn (with husband Orlando Bloom).]]><![CDATA[Bryce Dallas Howard]]><![CDATA[After baby No.2 for Bryce Dallas Howard, the Help star told Us Weekly that her second birth was easier than the first. "I had, especially fate the birth of my daughter [Beatrice Jean], because of the experience I had with my son, I had family around me constantly, I had friends around me constantly, professionals supporting me through that, and I feel really grateful."]]><![CDATA[Anna Chlumsky]]><![CDATA[Pretty in pink! Anna Chlumsky debuted her skinny post-baby body less than a month after giving birth to daughter Penelope Joan So on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, and the former child star wowed in a hot pink dress and black pumps. "She's pretty good. We like her a lot," she told talk show host Andy Cohen of her daughter Penelope Joan So. "She's eating a lot, she's a growing girl!"]]><![CDATA[Busy Philipps]]><![CDATA[At least she has a sense of humor about it! Busy Philipps, who was already mom to daughter Birdie, stepped out after giving birth to second daughter Cricket in August 2013. The Cougar Town actress tweeted about being determined to shed her pregnancy weight, telling fans: "Going to my first post-baby spin class. Thirty percent chance I will sit on the bike, not pedaling and cry."]]><![CDATA[Shakira]]><![CDATA[Forget about The Voice, Shakira is clearly The Body! Four months after giving birth to son Milan, the pop songstress told Us Weekly that she's been doing Zumba workouts in order to slim down. "I still have a long way to go," she said. "I still have a few pounds to lose, I look decent."]]><![CDATA[Kristen Bell]]><![CDATA[Mommy on board! Kristn Bell debuted her post-baby body in a little black leather Zuhair Murad dress at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville in June 5, tweeting a photo of her "new backstage beauty routine" staple -- a breast pump.]]><![CDATA[Malin Akerman]]><![CDATA[Malin Akerman's telling it like it is! The Trophy Wife actress told Us Weekly that despite her slender red carpet appearance, she was hiding some major post-baby problem areas. "You haven't seen the cellulite on my ass and my stomach. Oh I'm telling you!" she joked. "But it's nice to cover it up with some clothes."]]><![CDATA[Kristin Cavallari]]><![CDATA["I started working out when he was 4-weeks-old," Cavallari, who welcomed baby Camden with fiance Jay Cutler in August 2012, told Us. "Breastfeeding burns 500 calories a day, so that's been very helpful." Cavallari also hit the gym to jog, but didn't go overboard. "[I've been] taking it easy and not killing myself. I haven't really been stressing about it either. I think that helps."]]><![CDATA[Reese Witherspoon]]><![CDATA["I don't know if I'm bouncing back. I'm slowly crawling back," the svelte star jokingly admitted to Extra two months after welcoming son Tennessee in October 2012. "You just have to be gentle and patient with yourself and just sort of, you know…slowly get back to your health."]]><![CDATA[Hilary Duff]]><![CDATA[Eight months after giving birth to son Luca in March 2012, Duff -- married to Mike Comrie -- fit back into her size-26 skinny jeans. With the help of personal trainer Gabe Johns, the actress incorporated boxing, wind sprints and jump roping in her two-a-day workouts to accelerate her weight loss.]]><![CDATA[Anna Faris]]><![CDATA[There's only one person responsible for helping Faris get her smokin' hot post-baby body back in record time: her son, Jack! "I think [my weight loss is] from hauling around the little guy," the What's Your Number? actress -- who welcomed Jack with husband Chris Pratt in July -- told E! News. "I'm trying to do it without help, so it's been a lot of lifting."]]><![CDATA[Megan Fox]]><![CDATA[This new mom is foxier than ever! Gaining 23 pounds while pregnant with Noah, born in September 2012, the This Is 40 actress is slowly dropping unwanted baby weight -- and isn't in any rush. "I don't want to kill myself trying to get back into shape because it's not a priority right now," Brian Austin Green's wife has said. "I'm too in love with Noah and I don't want to be away from him. I just want to be home."]]><![CDATA[Jessica Simpson]]><![CDATA["I feel positive about how I've done so far and really good about the goals I have set," the Weight Watchers spokeswoman -- who welcomed daughter Maxwell Drew with fiance Eric Johnson in May 2012 -- has said of her 50-pound weight loss. "Most people can tell a difference every time they see me, which lets me know I'm making progress," added the star, currently pregnant with her second child.]]><![CDATA[Beyonce]]><![CDATA["Y'all have no idea how hard I worked. I had to lose 60 pounds!" Beyonce told an audience at her May 2012 concert in Atlantic City five months after giving birth to her and hubby Jay-Z's first child Blue Ivy. "They had me on that treadmill -- I ate lettuce!"]]><![CDATA[Alessandra Ambrosio]]><![CDATA[During her second pregnancy with son Noah, born in May 2012, the Victoria's Secret model strived to be "as healthy as possible." Once Noah arrived (joining big sis Anja), Ambrosio revved up her weight loss by breastfeeding. "[That] and running after my kids," Ambrosio told Us, adding that she often mixes up her workouts. "I love to do Pilates and SoulCycle and go on walks and surf at the beach."]]><![CDATA[Snooki]]><![CDATA[The petite Jersey Shore star slimmed down in record time after giving birth to son Lorenzo in August 2012. Taking special care to stay in shape while pregnant -- opting to focus on back-strengthening moves and cardio -- Jionni LaValle's fiancee chose to breastfeed her son, which can burn up to 500 calories a day. "I love nursing my little man!" enthused the reality star.]]><![CDATA[Vanessa Minnillo]]><![CDATA[Nick Lachey's wife was hyper-sensitive about her diet while pregnant with son Camden John, and her sensible eating paid off in the time since his September 2012 birth. "The only gift I can give my baby right now is what I put in my mouth and how I am health-conscious about trying to stay active," Wipeout's Minnillo told Us while pregnant.]]><![CDATA[Sarah Michelle Gellar]]><![CDATA[A mother of two -- daughter Charlotte became a big sister when brother Rocky was born in September 2012 -- the former Ringer star doesn't believe in obsessing over a number on the scale. Instead, Pilates devotee Gellar listened to her body when it came to shedding unwanted pregnancy pounds. "We don't even have [a scale] in our house. I've never believed in them, because your weight fluctuates," she tells Shape. "It's more about how my clothing fits than a number."]]><![CDATA[Lily Aldridge]]><![CDATA[The Victoria's Secret model -- who married Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill in May 2011 and welcomed daughter Dixie Pearl in June 2012 -- turned to Pilates to slim down. "It really changes the way my body feels," Aldridge tells Shape. "And after I finish, it's like I've had a massage."]]><![CDATA[Anna Paquin]]><![CDATA["I'm my harshest critic," new mom of twins Paquin admitted to Redbook before her first children with her True Blood costar husband Stephen Moyer were born in September 2012. "But at a certain point, you need to embrace who you are and the whole package that comes along with it. For me, it was cutting myself some slack and not trying to be something that I think is perfect or ideal."]]>