Everyone's different, folks. Most people are *not* like JA: she has "tight ab" genes, no doubt, and if a PP's quote is to be believed, she eats little and works out to look this way.

I'll say, my abs are a big, flabby "before-tummy tuck" photo mess. Saggy, I look 5 months pregnant (not 5 months not pregnant) and it folds over my c-section scar. Thanks a bunch, pathetic abdominal fascia. But my boobs look great. No stretch marks, either.

But I'd take saggy boobs over my saggy, bulging gut, anyday!

At 38 years old, after my second kid...my abs looked identical to hers. Boobs were another story--they were deflated. I have always had very muscular legs...former soccer player/track star. I totally think that is 100% her--no surgery. She is much younger than I was and she has the benefit of paid dieticians and trainers. I managed to do pretty good on my own at an old age and I also worked out up until my due date with all of my children. I took off 50 lbs in 4 months with all three of them.

She does sound like she's starving. Ugh. But I don't think her husband looks too bad. I wouldn't complain if mine looked like that (in the body, not the face. My DH is much handsomer than Cash Warren).

She's starving and her DH is fat!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree she is not breast feeding.

Why not? My boobs were at their perkiest while bfing.

Oh, mine are too. I wasn't talking about the perk as much as the size. They don't seem like breast feeding boobs. Even my A cup friends had bigger boobs when BFing.

But I saw an interview with her and I don't think 1,200 calories with intense exercise would cut it if she was BFing. I eat well over 2,000 calories while BFing and can't keep the weight on. I do moderate exercise and it sounds like she is doing more. I would think she would collapse with that amount of activity plus BFing on so few calories.

I also agree with the poster that said a lot of women around here have a nice body five months out. I pretty much did. I mean, I'm no Jessica Alba by any means and I'm older and my boobs didn't look that good after babies but I've always had nice abs. Abs are really not about muscle, it's more that if you don't have nice abs you have a layer of fat over them so if you are relatively skinny you can have nice abs. I work out a moderate amount and eat well and with BFing the weight just came off.

Now if only I could have that face. And she has nice legs too.

At least where I live in upper NW, there are almost NO obese or even slightly chubby women in their 20s/30s.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say "upper NW," but it if it's: Tenley, Chevy Chase, Forest Hills, Friendship Hts, Cleveland Park and AU Park .... the women giving birth aren't in their 20s. They're barely into their 30s in most cases.

Anonymous wrote:I agree she is not breast feeding.

Why not? My boobs were at their perkiest while bfing.

honestly, isn't this how most women you know in NW DC look about 5 months out?
I know more women here who look like they didn't even give birth about a month after delivery--some even after 2 weeks.
The moms at my preschool are all like this.

There are very, very few women here who gain (by luck, genetics, hard work) too much weight. Maybe it's because they all start out so thin? At least where I live in upper NW, there are almost NO obese or even slightly chubby women in their 20s/30s.

She has youth on her side, what is she like 30?. Good genes don't hurt, she's always been skinny even while pregnant. Combine that with exercise and diet and any woman can look like her post pregnancy. It really doesn't take more than that. She is just one of those people who lucked out. All her body issues stars are aligned just right.

I read this is today's Express. This is what she told Lucky magazine:

"I have 1200 calorie meals delivered. But I also work out, so basically I'm starving. It sucks. I drink a lot of water."

So there you go.

I agree she is not breast feeding.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's your job to look good and you have a trainer, I have trouble believing anyone's abs could look like that 5 months post-partum, especially when it's not your first child. After my first, my abs bounced back really quickly but after my second...well, let's just say they will never ever look like Jessica Alba's. I'm sure she's working her ass off to get back in shape but I would bet there's a little photoshopping going on there as well.

1) exactly...YOUR ABS...don't you think everybody is different? Or you really think that your example aplies for every single woman in the world?

2) why would people magazine photoshop the picture? it is quite the opposite- they love an opportunity to show any saggy, trashy, fat or cellulite pictures of celebrities.

Can't just people accept some woman have a great genetic? It is not my case...but I saw my best friend getting a better and hotter body after 2 pregnancies.

Yes, PP, I think that my abs are representative of every mother, everywhere, throughout the history of time. Give me a fucking break. And are you really so naive as to think that People and Us Weekly don't photoshop these pictures? They totally do. Maybe some of the trashier mags get a kick out of making celebs look like crap, but not People. I can totally accept that some women have great genetics, and as you can see from my post, I think she probably is doing the work to get there. But it wouldn't shock me if she had some technological help as well. So sorry if I offended you, Jessica Alba's mom.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2081624/Jessica-Alba-shows-post-pregnancy-figure-bikini-Cash-Warren-Cabo-Mexico.html

New poster here. No photoshop. Sorry. The above website goes out of it's way to catch celebs looking crappy.

Signed,

Not Jessica Alba's mom

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if it's your job to look good and you have a trainer, I have trouble believing anyone's abs could look like that 5 months post-partum, especially when it's not your first child. After my first, my abs bounced back really quickly but after my second...well, let's just say they will never ever look like Jessica Alba's. I'm sure she's working her ass off to get back in shape but I would bet there's a little photoshopping going on there as well.

1) exactly...YOUR ABS...don't you think everybody is different? Or you really think that your example aplies for every single woman in the world?

2) why would people magazine photoshop the picture? it is quite the opposite- they love an opportunity to show any saggy, trashy, fat or cellulite pictures of celebrities.

Can't just people accept some woman have a great genetic? It is not my case...but I saw my best friend getting a better and hotter body after 2 pregnancies.

Yes, PP, I think that my abs are representative of every mother, everywhere, throughout the history of time. Give me a fucking break. And are you really so naive as to think that People and Us Weekly don't photoshop these pictures? They totally do. Maybe some of the trashier mags get a kick out of making celebs look like crap, but not People. I can totally accept that some women have great genetics, and as you can see from my post, I think she probably is doing the work to get there. But it wouldn't shock me if she had some technological help as well. So sorry if I offended you, Jessica Alba's mom.

On a sidenote, in the same link, don't ya think J Lo is starting to look dumpy? Someone of her age can't slip an inch with her eating and exercise, or else she will get dumpy real fast

Anonymous wrote:I care nothing about her belly - what I am fascinated by is how her post partum boobs are not hanging like sad bags after two kids. She is wearing a string bikini and they are really not looking so bad. Argh. My boobs never returned to any sort of shape like that post-babies.

There is NO WAY these Hollywood moms nurse their babies. I don't give a fuck about your genetics, if you nurse babies (two at that) your boobs are not going to look like hers.