Dr. Molly Burrets

Well, I'll share what I experienced and I know what I experienced is different than what you experienced.

So maybe you can share a little too, but I was afraid of getting pregnant because of gaining weight and how it was going to, everyone told me it was going to change my body.

I was very afraid.

And I went, it was like a part of the reason, like even when I got married, I like didn't want to get pregnant right away because I was like, oh my God, I know it's going to be so hard.

Losing weight is going to be so hard.

I don't want my body to change.

And so it was something I very much dreaded and really like,

There was energy around this that I was like dreading my body changing.

For me, when I got pregnant, I never felt more beautiful in my life.

I...

Just let myself eat whatever I wanted.

And for me, the experience of pregnancy really freed me from a lot of my body dysmorphia because I started really thinking more about what my body was doing.

Yeah.

Rather than what my body looked like.

I shifted from becoming an object to becoming embodied.

And I was no longer looking at myself and judging my body.

It was more just like I was like, wow, look at what my body's doing.

And I don't know.

It's like the growth of my body and my boobs getting so big and my butt getting big and my stomach getting big.

Like it felt so feminine to me.