Jennifer Garner says giving birth to three babies has changed her body forever – and she’s good at it.
On Monday, the 48-year-old Camp actress, who shares three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck (daughters Violet, 15, and Seraphina, 12, and son Samuel, 9), appeared on Happy mother happy baby podcast with presenter Giovanna Fletcher to discuss how motherhood guided her career choices and self-image amid rumors of pregnancy and a culture obsessed with size.
“There are some incredible women whose bodies simply, no matter how many babies they have, they go back to that narrow, stomachless hip,” she told Fletcher. “It is incredible, I have so many girlfriends with that physique and I am very happy for them. I am not one of them, this is not my show.”
“I can work a lot and be in shape and I will still look like a woman who has had three babies,” she said. “And I always will.”
Garner recalled a 2014 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, during which she admitted to being “congratulated all the time” for false pregnancies, as reported by the tabloids. “So I asked around and apparently I have a baby belly,” she told DeGeneres. “And I’m here to tell you yes.” Although she was not pregnant at the time, Garner said the birth of three children changed her form, as can many other mothers. After birth, the uterus and the still-dilated fluids can keep the stomach dilated, while age, lifestyle and genetics affect how easily women lose weight. Many mothers also develop rectal diastasis (when the stomach muscles rupture during pregnancy), which can correct itself or require specific exercises.
“I just thought, I might as well approach this and Ellen was so kind to leave me,” Garner told Fletcher. “But I just felt that we could, too. I mean, every week, ‘is she? She is pregnant?’ It is still happening, I am 48 years old and I am single. And it’s still happening, so you might as well catch that bull by the horns. “
Garner suggested that she admired Kate Middleton for allowing the press to photograph her outside the Gorgeous Ward of St. Mary’s Hospital after the births of Prince George in 2013 and Princess Charlotte in 2015. “It’s like when beautiful Kate left the hospital and she did not hide the fact that she looked like a woman a few hours after giving birth. “In both cases, the duchess did not disguise her figure with clothes, posture or modeling.
However, last year as a Happy mother happy baby invited, Middleton admitted that taking pictures shortly after birth was “a little scary”, adding: “I’m not going to lie”.
And Garner shared his shame after Violet’s birth, when a friend played with her body: “Is there another one there?” she said to Fletcher. “Fortunately, I have a sense of humor, so I laughed. But I remembered.”
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