Jen

I got pregnant when I was 17. I was a cheerleader and was working out atleast 15 hours a week. I never liked my body, I always thought I was fat. I MISS that body and wish I could go back an accept it.

This was me just before I got pregnant.

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I figured I would bounce back and boy was I wrong. I weighed 175lbs when I gave birth and weighed the same a year later. Despite exercise and diet. In the past 10 months I have come down to 145lbs-147lbs. I teeter in that area. I have a horrible body image but this website has helped alot !

My stretch marks will always be with me and I have not gotten to a point where I feel showing my stomach to anyone.

Someday I hope I can proudly walk around in a bikini and not be embarrassed of my “baby lines”

5 Weeks pregnant

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19 Weeks

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30 weeks

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40 weeks

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Almost 23 months after giving birth to a healthy, happy daughter

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my stretch marks

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Thanks for this great website !

5 thoughts on “Jen

  • Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 10:28 am
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    I have to say, you look great!!! You even looked small when you were pregnant. I think your 30 week pic is what I looked like at 20 weeks! I know we are hardest on ourselves but, keep your chin up, you look great!

  • Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 7:22 pm
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    i think you look aboslutely beautiful!

  • Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 7:40 pm
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    OMG! we have the same stomach. I got pregnant at 21, so I can totally relate about missing my old body. I’ve always had large thighs due to gymnastics but now to add stretch marks to them is kinda hard to swallow.

  • Monday, August 14, 2006 at 7:29 am
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    I can relate to wanting the body I used to have (although it’s never been a cheerleading body). At some point I made the connection that if I don’t love and care for the body I have now, I will always want the body I used to have. That’s a hard place to be all the time. You are beautiful, then and now!

  • Friday, August 25, 2006 at 2:40 am
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    I dealt with the same thing wanting my old body. Believe it or not, I was picked on for being too skinny!!So I always felt self conscious. Then when I was pregnant I gained alot of wait, I used to feel like I went from too skinny to too fat never a happy medium, but seeing pics like yours where I think you look great makes me think maybe I look great too and am just being too hard on myself like I think you are to yourself. So here’s too us and someday soon being able to show off our tummies as they are and not how they were.

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