It’s the one thing that a LOAD of people will tell you about breastfeeding: you’ll be REALLY skinny.
Yeah seemingly all those calories you’re burning making milk = you being a Skinny Minnie (and irrespective of what you’re munching on).
Not. Always. True.
In fact, we reckon that while the added-bonus of losing loadsa weight while nursing is tantalising – plenty of women will say that the theory never actually applied to them.
And now none-other than Serena Williams has come out with confirmation of the same… we love her for it.
Chatting to Mirror.co.uk, the tennis star stated:
“I feel like everyone says, ‘You’re so thin when you breast-feed’.”
She added, however:
“It was interesting because all these articles, over pop culture, you hear, ‘When you breast-feed, you lose weight, you’re so thin.’ That wasn’t happening to me.”
Serena continued: “Every body is different, every person is different, every physical body is different.” In fact, the Florida-based athlete revealed that she lost 10lbs in a week only AFTER she stopped.
Serena, 36, furthermore explained that – like many mums – the decision to wrap-up breastfeeding was a challenging one.
“Once I got to six months, I felt good about it. Then it was just emotionally letting go. That was a different thing. I literally sat Olympia in my arms, I talked to her, we prayed about it. I told her, ‘Look, I’m going to stop. Mommy has to do this’.”
Her daughter, Olympia, was born on September 1 of last year, and Ms Williams described that initially, she only planned on feeding her for a few months.
“I had planned on stopping in January,” she said. “Then January became March. March became April. I was still breastfeeding. For me, it was really important to make it through three months, then it was important to make it to four months.
“I was like, OK, I can do six months. I was training and everything.”
She concluded: “I cried a little bit, not as much as I thought I was. She was fine. She was totally fine.”
