Mommy Blogger Shares Some Tough Love About Her Pre-Baby Body Coming Back

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By Helena Martin

Published Jun 24, 2019

Watts believes that you need to be real with your audience; you can’t give them hope that they’ll be able to bounce back 100%.

Mommy Blogger Mel Watts has laid out the truth without sugar coating it: you’re never going to have the same body as you did pre-baby. While many parent bloggers like to keep things happy, bubbly, and positive, Watts believes that you need to be real with your audience; you can’t give them hope that they’ll be able to bounce back 100%, and that’s okay.

For good reason, most bloggers want to keep up a positive message online. Other moms go to blogs to read advice, get inspiration, and reassure themselves that everything is alright. This doesn’t mean, however, that one should promote lies. It would be unfair to give your readers false hope in order to keep up a popular blog—honesty is the best policy, and people will follow a more real and relatable blogger.

Watts published a post on Instagram detailing the physical and emotional struggles of having a post-baby body. In her photo, she is showing her belly, and she highlights how it took a while to accept that she’ll never have the same body again. Twelve years after having her first child, she still hasn’t “bounced back,” so she is angry at those who promote the idea that any mom can return to their young bodies. The fact is the saggy boobs, cellulite, and stretched-out tummy aren’t going anywhere.

In reality, mom’s will have to accept that their bodies, mindsets, and lives have changed forever after their baby was born. Watts highlights how we shouldn’t set up moms for failure, and we do this when we continue to promote that a 100% body comeback is possible. As a mom, you already got a lot on your mind, and having to worry about how you look shouldn’t be an added stress. This focus on the physical is also not a good message to send your kids.

Instead of trying new treatments, exercises, and diets to get rid of little imperfections, Watts wants women to focus on being healthy and loving themselves. The journey will be long and difficult, but it’s worth it in the end. You will attract positive, fun, and confident people, and that is the environment you want to immerse yourself in—not this perfect, Instagrammable life that’s exhausting to keep up.