New mothers desperate to regain their figures are opting for plastic surgery in the weeks and months after childbirth. Tim Shipman in Washington and Laura Donnelly investigate a growing trend
Katie Helein had always been proud of her figure. So when she gave birth to her second son she was determined to regain her svelte shape as soon as possible. She hired a personal trainer and worked out in the gym three times a week. The excess pounds melted away but, when she undressed each evening, her silvery stretchmarks, sagging bosom and still bulging tummy drove her to despair.
“I had to do something,” says Mrs Helein, 37, a saleswoman from St Louis. “I had given it everything and, yes, I had lost weight. But I still had sagging skin and things had, well, dropped down.”
A pregnant woman, ‘Mommy makeover’ rush for plastic surgery
Many women worry that their bodies
do not bounce back into shape
So, within months of delivering her son, Mrs Helein was back on the operating table: this time under the surgeon’s knife for a tummy tuck, breast augmentation and liposuction on her abdomen, hips, buttocks, thighs, calves and knees.
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