Just As Well, The Women's Health Podcast - Why Millie Mackintosh is Candid About Postpartum Body Image Struggles

Episode Date: April 17, 2021

Hi! We’ve got this month's cover star Millie Mackintosh on the pod next week sharing the lessons she’s learned from becoming a mother for the first time in 2020, all the things she’ll be booking in to make the most of the great unlocked summer (fingers crossed) of 2021 and, of course, what her approach to wellness looks like now. Ahead of the full thing dropping into your podcast app of choice on Tuesday, here’s Millie sharing why it’s important to her to be open and honest about her postpartum body image journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, we've got Women's Health cover star Millie McIntosh on the pod next week, talking life as a mum of an almost one-year-old, the lessons she's learned from becoming a mum for the first time in 2020, and of course, all the things she'll be booking to make the most of the great, unlocked summer, fingers crossed, of 2021. Ahead of the full thing dropping into your podcast app of choice on Tuesday, here's Millie talking about why it was so important for her to be open and honest about her postpartum body image journey.

I think women often feel like they can't talk about how they feel about their postpartum bodies and there's so much attention on women's bodies when they're pregnant and then there seems to be a lot of pressure to bounce back after you've had the baby and that's just something I really can't stand because like give us a break like you've literally just grown a human and yes your body changes a lot while it's like creating a life carrying it for nine months and I did find the first few months after a pregnant see like really challenging, like I found it hard to love my body and I, um, I was kind of ashamed to admit that I didn't like what I saw in the mirror, but I think it's actually really freeing,

liberating to like admit that and I, I really tried to practice self-love, but it did take me a bit of time to, to get there and to actually really appreciate my body. Um, definitely what, definitely didn't feel like that in the weeks after I gave birth.