Anne Hathaway took to Instagram on Monday to share a candid and powerful statement about the pressure to lose weight after having a baby. Hathaway, who welcomed her first child in March, wrote, "There is no shame in gaining weight during pregnancy (or ever). There is no shame if it takes longer than you think it will to lose the weight (if you want to lose it at all)." She included a photo of a pair of jeans that had been turned into shorts, along with a pair of scissors and measuring tape.
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She continued, "There is no shame in finally breaking down and making your own jean shorts because last summer's are just too dang short for this summer's thighs. Bodies change. Bodies grow. Bodies shrink. It's all love (don't let anyone tell you otherwise)."
Hathaway previously opened up about how a trainer body-shamed her at the gym shortly after she gave birth to her son Jonathan. "If somebody says, 'I had a baby 13 years ago,' you say, 'You look great.' That's what you do. That is the etiquette," she said on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in May. 'So I say to this guy, "I had a baby seven weeks ago." And he goes, "Oh, trying to lose the baby weight?"' According to Hathaway, she 'cried a little bit' after he left.
(via Cosmopolitan)
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