Kate Upton and daughter Genevieve.Photo: Kate Upton/Instagram
Kate Uptonis setting the record straight on how she feels about new moms each being on their own unique journeys.
“The reality, for me, was thatbreastfeeding was sucking the energy awayfrom me,” she revealed in the feature. “I realized I needed to calm down, to allow my body to recover.”
On Wednesday, Upton shared a photo of herself nursing her daughter,writing in the captionthat she wanted to use the post “to take a minute to clarify the context of feeling pressures as a new mother and breastfeeding in the@editorialistmagazinearticle.”
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Upton — who shares Genevieve with her Houston Astros pitcher husbandJustin Verlander— went on to share candidly that she “certainly felt these pressures, as all women do,” after Genevieve was born in November 2018.
“I tried to push myself early to get back to the gym, eat perfectly and try to achieve this alleged ‘snap back.’ But, after realizing how ridiculous these pressures are I quickly gave myself some slack and lived in the moment as a new mother,” she said. “Everywoman needs to give their body timeto heal and to soak in those early, precious moments.”
Upton explained that she “realized quickly” in her new-motherhood experience “that between breastfeeding, healing, little-to-no sleep, off-the-charts hormone changes and experiencing everything for the first time that those weight-loss pressures are extremely unnecessary, and I decided to turn my energy towards my family.”
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Upton previously shared ablack-and-white breastfeeding selfiein honor ofInternational Women’s Daylast year, captioning it, “Willcherish these moments forever? can’t imagine a greater superpower!”
In a separate post, the model shared athrowback pregnancy photoand captioned it, “A world without sexism would be a world where hard work, merit and qualifications are put before gender. True partnerships would be present rather than the constrictions of traditional roles. Instead of being put in a box,everyone is on an even playing fieldand therefore benefits. This is the world in which I want my daughter to thrive.”
source: people.com
