Kate Wicker

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Loving Your Postpartum Body

I’m over at Faith & Family LIVE! today writing about a topic I’m passionate about: How real moms can come to terms with their postpartum bodies stretch marks and all.

I always love hearing from readers, so I’ll see you over there!

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· July 14, 2009 · Tagged With: Body Image, Columns · Filed Under: Body Image

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  1. Kris says

    July 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    Great article!! I think we all struggle with this – even those of us that are a number of years away from our last baby. Now I'm into the peri-menopausal issues, where it's even harder to maintain that girlish figure!! I think our husbands play an important role in this, too. Mine loves my body, curves and all, and makes a point of telling me that. And I need to listen and believe!!

  2. Joy says

    July 14, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Wonderful artilcle! Thank you again for letting me participate.

  3. *Jess* says

    July 15, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Have you heard about my friend's site? Its called http://www.shapeofamother.com

  4. Kate Wicker @ Momopoly says

    July 15, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Jess, someone else brought that site to my attention. How beautiful! For my other readers, the URL is actually http://www.theshapeofamother.com.

    Thank you for sharing!

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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