The INSIDER Summary:
• Actress Blake Lively gave birth to her second daughter in September 2016.
• She told E! that she's learning to love her post-baby body.
• Lively has been outspoken about body positivity for new moms.
Last September, Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds welcomed their second daughter, Ines. Now, the mom of two says she's learning to love her post-baby body just as much as she loves her "normal" physique.
"You know after the second kid it's really different," the 29-year-old actress recently told E! "So this is not my normal body, but I like it. I'm learning to love my body in every iteration and I think that's hard for women."
She's right about that. Media outlets often glorify celebrities who eliminate all evidence of their pregnancies as quickly as possible. How can woman learn to embrace their post-baby bodies when tabloids keep treating stretch marks and non-flat stomachs as shameful?
Lively's already spoken out about this backwards attitude. After giving birth to her first daughter, she told Australian magazine Sunrise that the real focus should be on the feat of giving birth — not what the mother's body looks like afterwards.
"I think a woman's body after having a baby is pretty amazing. You don't need to be Victoria's Secret ready right away, because you just did the most incredible miracle that life has to offer. You gave birth to a human being. So I would really like to see that celebrated," she told Sunrise.
Seems like she's leading by example and celebrating herself.
