Baby Klum
Heidi Klum is the latest get-thin-quick celebrity, losing her post-baby weight with the help of a trainer and some serious self discipline. What I thought was interesting about the article was this bit:
"Last year, Heidi confessed she was under contract to lose her post-pregnancy weight from Leni in just one month. The sexy supermodel's lucrative $25 million deal with lingerie company Victoria's Secret, which also bans her from 'altering her image,' required her to be fit enough to model underwear just amonth after giving birth."
Now I've never had a baby, but it seems to me that one month is a realy unrealistic deadline, even if you have a personal trainer! I guess she's got to earn her $25 million somehow, but jeez. Is that really healthy? Forty-five pounds of baby weight in a month?
"Last year, Heidi confessed she was under contract to lose her post-pregnancy weight from Leni in just one month. The sexy supermodel's lucrative $25 million deal with lingerie company Victoria's Secret, which also bans her from 'altering her image,' required her to be fit enough to model underwear just amonth after giving birth."
Now I've never had a baby, but it seems to me that one month is a realy unrealistic deadline, even if you have a personal trainer! I guess she's got to earn her $25 million somehow, but jeez. Is that really healthy? Forty-five pounds of baby weight in a month?
posted by mo pie at 11:25 AM
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Whenever I hear about the Heidi Klum baby weight thing I assume she only had 20lb MAX to loose, and that it was mostly water weight that could be flushed out by exercise.
Was it really 60lb? Jeez. I can't see how loosing 60lb in 30ish days could EVER be healthy, even if it was a total 60lb gain BEFORE she actually gave birth, then baby etc. might remove 15lb or so...still leaving 45 to loose. Over 1lb a day.
Nope not healthy. No way no how. If she wanted to, I wonder if she could sue VS to change that clause. At least it's made clear her evil contract made her do it, so you realize this is not "the norm". I wonder if she has to have makeup on her tummy to cover stretch marks.
Oh man, I forgot to link the original article! I'll go back and fix it. It says she lost "three stone." Isn't a stone twenty pounds?
I went and looked it up in the interests of science. It's 14 pounds, so approximately 45 pounds, I guess, is what she lost in two months. Jesus.
Also, I had linked the original article but a space slipped into the URL. Now it should be fixed!
No, that is a lot less scary. (See how ignorant I am about baby-having? I thought, well seven-pound baby, you lose like eight pounds.) It still is a little scary that they wanted her to lose it in a month, though.
Given that it's taken me, like, nine months to lose a stone (and I know that's slow, but still) 20 pounds in two months still seems quick to me.
Not that I know anything about having babies, but I've heard some people lose weight quite quickly if they're breastfeeding. I'm sure there are plenty who don't find that, though.
I just had to pipe in! I gained right at 26lbs when I had my daughter, but since I'm chubby my doc wasn't worried. Of that 26, 11.5 was gained in only 6 days just 3 weeks before I gave birth and it was all water! Everything on me was swollen and I was wearing flipflops with business suits in 40 degree weather. After I had my daughter I lost all but 3 pounds of the total 26 by the time I left the hospital -- and, no, I did not have a c-section! LOL That's 23lbs in 3 days. The last 3 pounds were off by the time we went to her 1 week weigh-in thanks in part to breast-feeding. I don't say any of this to brag, but to illustrate that we are all different! Maybe she was being pushed to get fit, but some bodies do bounce back quicker than others. My co-worker and I were pregnant at the same time and gained about the same amount, but she only finished losing her baby weight when her daughter was a year old. Even though I lost my weight fast, my body shape was *not* back to normal at all. My stomach was even flappier than it was before I got pregnant. It took about a year to feel my body was back to "normal."
So, to straighten things out: She lost 45 pounds in 2 months with her second baby. With the first baby, she lost the weight in a month, but they don't say how much weight that was?
Either way: Dang! Glad my income is based on my brain, not my body!
Um, well... Considering that I am *just now* losing the weight from my second pregnancy and the child is just about to start kindergarten, I would say that there is a wide variety of after-pregnancy weight loss abilities. (For the record, I had a C-section and breastfed both of my kids. Neither magically removed the pounds.)
Even back to pre-baby weight my body is completely different. Good thing I consider the stretch marks a decent trade off for two fabulous kids!
Hi!
Just found your site and thought I'd add something.
I must confess that I'm not a big fan of Catherine Zeta Jones, but I agree with her comments on losing baby weight:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=368080&in_page_id=1773
All the best
mair
You know i was pregnant while watching the first runway that heidi did after the baby and i was so mad. i figured there is no way that i will ever get rid of my baby fat, (i gained 40 lbs!) but honestly 2 weeks after having my baby i was back down to my normal 110lbs. its not that hard to loss the weight if you breast feed, eat healthy and excersise. and being young doesnt hurt either.
Heidi also is known to have a fast metabolism, so combined with that, breast feeding and doing vigorous workouts 3 to 5 times a week with her trainer, it was not that impossible for her to accomplish.
But was it at all fun? I bet not! ;)
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