Ashley Graham: After Giving Birth, I Had to Relearn How to Love My Body
20.05.2022 - 18:23
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is known for being a passionate body advocate and for . But it's taken months for her to speak about the impact of the birth of her twins on her body, and self-confidence. As she unveils her first postpartum lingerie collection, she reveals all in this deeply personal essay.The night I gave , I hemorrhaged.
It was 2 a.m. when my contractions started. At 3:45 a.m.
I went to the toilet thinking I needed the bathroom, and Malachi came out just as my doula was arriving, in time to bring him into the world.Two hours and seven minutes later, I had Roman in my apartment bathtub—we didn’t even have enough time to blow up the home birthing tub because everything happened so fast. At first we were all celebrating. We couldn’t believe that my labor lasted just three and a half hours, and I was feeling so incredibly grateful to this incredible team of women around me, who were there for me when I , and were now with me again for the twins. The next thing you know, I looked at my midwife and I said, “I don’t feel good.
I think I need to lay down,” and I blacked out. All I can remember is feeling a light touch on my cheek, which I found out later was actually somebody smacking the crap out of my cheek, someone holding my hand, my husband Justin in my ear, praying, and someone jabbing me with a needle in my arm. And I remember seeing darkness and what seemed like stars.Ashley Graham in her postpartum campaign for Knix.When I finally came to, I looked around and I saw everybody.
They just kept saying to me, “You’re fine. You’re fine. You’re fine.” They didn’t want to tell me, right then, that I’d lost liters of blood.
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