All mums know that pregnancy and childbirth is a huge change for your body to go through, and ‘snapping back into shape’ isn’t quite as easy as it looks – and nor should it be our primary focus.
Those early days of motherhood are tough; life is about bonding with our baby, caring for their needs and keeping ourselves healthy too. I think we can all agree that showering and dressing is quite the achievement with a newborn!
Mothers in the royal family have that extra pressure of the public gaze, which we imagine is extremely difficult to cope with while caring for a young baby.
© GettyPrincess Anne’s daughter, Zara Tindall, and Sarah Ferguson’s youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, have both spoken on the subject of postpartum bodies in recent years, while Prince Harry has alluded to his wife Duchess Meghan’s feelings on the subject too.
Read on to discover what they said…
Zara Tindall on her post-baby body
In early 2023, Zara appeared on her husband Mike Tindall’s YouTube series ‘Mike Drop’ and opened up about motherhood.
The mum-of-three said: “It was hard to get your body back when you’ve been riding for 25 years, and then your body is just completely not doing that.
“Your muscles [are] doing nothing and stretching and creating an amazing thing but it’s completely different.” She continued: “Trying to get your body back to where it was, I found, was hard work.”
Zara, we completely understand – not that we are Olympic level athletes, but getting back into exercise post-baby is quite the project.
