Ashley Grahamis continuing to be transparent about the realities of the postpartum body.
On Monday (almost exactly one month afterwelcoming her first childwith husbandJustin Ervin, sonIsaac Menelik Giovanni), the new mama gave her Instagram followers a glimpse at the effects of pregnancy on her skin.
Sharing a nude photo that saw her covering her breasts with one arm and presumably taking the shot with the other hand, the supermodel showed off anumber of purple-tinged stretch marksacross the lower area of her torso.
“Same me. Few new stories,” Graham, 32, wrote in the accompanying text.
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Even before she and her filmmaker husband, 31, welcomed Isaac into their lives, Graham exuded body positivity Throughout her pregnancy, she posted inspiring messages about self-love, revealed theweight she’d gained (50 lbs.as of mid-December) and sharednude photos showing her stretch marks.
During a November episode of her digital series,Fearless with Ashley Graham, the star admitted that she had been struggling with her “new body” at the time she posted herfirst nude pregnancy photo.
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“I had just announced that I was pregnant and I thought then I was going to feel good and I didn’t. I just felt terrible. And that morning, actually … ” she said,pausing as she began to cry. “I was like, ‘Get it together, Ashley, there’s other women out there that are going through the same thing as you — why don’t you have a dialogue?’ ”
Adding that theexperience of having a “new body”made her feel “so isolated” and “so alone,” Graham noted that pregnancy has meant having “to come into this new world of body confidence.”
Last week, Graham shared anempowering photo of her postpartum body, explaining that her experience with the recovery process after childbirth has “been tough.”
“Raise your hand if you didn’t know you’d be changing your own diapers too,” the mother of onewrote alongside the shot, which showed her posing in a bathroom mirror, wearing a black top and grey disposable underwear.
“After all these years in fashion, I never could’ve guessed thatdisposable underwear would be my favoritepiece of clothing but here we are!” Graham continued, going on to explain that her reason for sharing the candid photo was to show other new moms that “it’s not all rainbows and butterflies!”
“No onetalks about the recovery and healing(yes even the messy parts) new moms go through,” she wrote. “It’s been tough.”
source: people.com
