'My post-baby body left me feeling like damaged goods- now I'm a lingerie model'
01.10.2023 - 02:11
/ ok.co.uk
Becoming a mother changes your life forever. While it's wonderful to have a little person to take care of and love, there are so many other factors to motherhood that are challenging. One of the areas that some mums struggle with is body confidence, as going through pregnancy and birth changes your figure completely.
It's something that mum-of-three Holly Ramejikis, 36, from Portsmouth, knows only too well, as although she was blessed with her children, she struggled with her new look after birth. She'd gained five stone when she had her first baby at 21 and had lots of stretch marks- she no longer felt like herself. In a bid to regain her confidence, she started her Instagram page @thebodypositivemum when she turned 30.
After posting snaps of her unfiltered body including her saggy tummy skin and stretch marks, she's empowered other women and garnered 45,000 followers. She explains: "After pregnancy, I thought I was damaged goods and nobody would want my new body. “I battled with yo-yo dieting.
Then when I hit 30, something shifted.
I embarked on a self-love journey, and I found myself again. “I decided to embrace everything about me and put myself out there. It was scary, but it was worth it.
Now I run courses to help other women gain self confidence and love and appreciate their bodies.” The success of her account and her journey to body acceptance has led her to new opportunities and now she's become a model for new lingerie brand Boa Boa, founded by Nick Knowles's fiancé Katie Dadzie, 33. Holly says: “We are so conditioned by society and social media that our bodies shouldn’t look a certain way but let’s be honest more people probably have a body like mine over a size 8-10. “It’s very rare to see a mid size body
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