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Hunter McGradyis getting candid about her postpartum body.
On Wednesday, the new mom shared amirror selfieposing in her bra and underwear on Instagram. In the caption, McGrady opened up about how she is healing and learning to embrace her body after giving birth.
“I’m Just a girl, standing in front of a mirror, 12 days postpartum, with breast milk stains, and depends diapers, pure exhaustion, asking herself to learn to love this new body,” McGrady, 28, wrote.
She continued, “To give herself grace, to feel the gummy-ness of her new tummy, and the loose skin and remembering that this body not only created life, but housed it for 9 months, went 45 hours into labor, and is now feeding it daily all with one vessel. I feel so grateful for this body today. Leaky breasts, bloody diapers(on my end) new stretch marks, gummy tummy and all 🤍”
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Hudson’s middle name is a tribute to McGrady’s youngerbrother Tynan, who died on May 1at age 23.
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“I’ve never known this kind of love,” McGrady wrote in thecaption of her post, sharing the first photos of her new addition from the delivery room. “The healing we desperately needed. I can’t wait to tell him how special his middle name is.”
During the course of her pregnancy, the star opened up about the lack of representation for plus size pregnant women in a powerful AprilInstagram post.
“Being plus size the representation already falls incredibly short, but being plus size AND pregnant? Forget it,” McGrady began her caption alongside a pair of mirror selfies showing off her bump. “When I embarked on this journey I was excitedly googling pregnancy, plus size pregnancy, bump pictures, updates, all the things! However, I never saw myself represented.”
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“I knew going into this my belly wasn’t going to be this perfect little round thing that just bops out, I knew I wouldn’t have options for maternity wear, I knew my body would change in different ways than I have seen my whole life, and yet I don’t know if I was prepared for how much the plus size pregnancy representation lacks,” she continued.
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Concluded McGrady, “Wherever you are on your journey just remember how wildly worthy you are to experience this and enjoy every moment of it just as anyone else.”
source: people.com
