Amy Adams

Amy Adams had a baby. And now, Amy Adams has a muffin top. Eighteen whole months later! If you've already gasped at the very thought of a big-screen star having a jelly belly more than a month after birthing a child, get ready for the really radical part -- Amy Adams is all honey badger about her changed body.



Along with embracing being bare-faced and having dried cereal strewn about her car, the actress told InStyle that she is not worried about her post-baby body. At least for today.



"I read about these actresses who get on a stationary bike two weeks after giving birth and I'm like, 'What? Where did you push your baby out of? Since having [daughter] Aviana, I have a muffin top, and that's okay right now," Adams said.



It's easy to love to hate other A-listers who have babies and a few months later do a bikini cover shoot (Kourtney Kardashian) or walk the runway (Gisele Bundchen) looking seemingly unscathed. It's also easy to shake a fist in the air while reading up on how this celeb got back into her pre-baby clothes or how another now has the best body of her life in the few days after delivering twins. Maybe it's just as easy to mock all that ridiculousness as it is for us regular ladies to silently (or sarcastically) judge ourselves for carrying a few remaining pregnancy pounds years when our kids are toddlers (or older) or for quietly chiding ourselves for devouring the biggest (and most delicious) brownie of all time immediately after being wheeled out of the labor and delivery room. It's all a part of the same sickness of expecting women's bodies to be itty bitty while they are doing the big work of nourishing a human and recovering from making that human.



To get well (all of us), we need the space to talk about our birthing bodies without so much judgment. And that includes celebrities. It shouldn't be rebellious for a star to say she's not working out four times a day or eating only Swedish fish and quinoa to get a Hollywood-approved celeb-mama body. But it is. And so that's where we start, I guess. By applauding those women who are willing to be real -- whether it is at a playgroup at the park, by text with their mother-in-law, or in the cover story of a magazine.



Padma Lakshmi had no qualms about revealing it took her a year to lose the weight she gained during pregnancy. Jennifer Lopez documented her difficult quest to lose 50 pounds of baby weight when she trained for a triathlon. Pink has been seen shamelessly eating burgers to fuel her new-mama lifestyle. And Amy Adams clearly has no intention of making her life or body look shinier or tinier than it really is.



"I'm definitely not one of those women who make it look easy," Adams also said. "I'm always running late - and look, there's guacamole on my purse! "But I'm more patient than I ever thought I would be, and I'm not so hard on myself anymore."



That feels good to hear, doesn't it?



What other celebrity mothers would you like to hear get honest about bodies, babies, and maybe even the dreaded muffin top?





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