Fighting the ‘Mom-Shell’ Image: New Moms Struggle to Embrace Post-Baby Body
Beyonce performing in Atlantic City, a little less than 4 months after giving birth. Kevin Mazur/WireImage(NEW YORK) — There is a new breed of mother on the playground.Just weeks after giving birth, women dubbed “mom-shells,” a hybrid of mommies and …
Celebrity ‘Momshells’ Pressured to Look Perfect After Giving Birth
Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Applauding new Hollywood mothers for slimming down in no time flat after shedding their baby weight has become one of the hottest trends splashed across celebrity magazines.Call them “momshells” (mother-as-bombshell…
Real Moms on the Realities of Losing the Baby Weight
Brand X Pictures/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Earlier this month, a group of moms gave birth to a radical idea. Instead of focusing on the perhaps unrealistic pressures celebrities set to lose the baby weight, they decided to embrace their bodies to try to …
Military Breastfeeding Spokeswoman Fired from Civilian Job
George Doyle/Thinkstock(SPOKANE, Wash.) — Crystal Scott, spokeswoman for the organization behind the controversial photographs of military mothers’ breast-feeding in uniform, was fired from her first civilian job as an x-ray technician because o…
Fathers Day 2012: Are Dads Worth Less Than Moms?
Maria Teijeiro/Lifesize/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — With Father’s Day around the corner, the last thing a father probably wants to hear is that he’s valued less at home than mom.But according to Insure.com’s 2012 Father’s Day Index, a dad’s home front cont…
Happy Mother’s Day! (In 140 Characters?!)
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Next to seeing mom in person, phone calls remain the most popular way to wish her a happy Mother’s Day with an estimated 112.5 million calls made on that special day.But as a new survey shows, Americans are u…
Stressed? Call Mom, Researchers Conclude
Todd Warnock/Lifesize/Thinkstock(MADISON, Wis.) — Moms feed us, read to us, clap the loudest, cry the hardest, sit front row at recitals, write notes in our lunchboxes and promise that the hole in our hearts after a breakup won’t stay there fore…
Study: Moms Who Don’t Work Are at a Greater Risk for Depression
Siri Stafford/Thinkstock(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — Can part-time work increase the chances of full-time happiness for modern moms? Yes, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.“In all cases with significant d…