The new momto son Rennie David, whomshe welcomed in late Februarywith husbandDavid Foster, shared a photo of her new “curves” on Tuesday in a selfie, as she posed in a brown high-waisted bikini and sunglasses.
Katharine McPhee.Katharine McPhee/ Instagram
“I’m so happy that I don’t have this crazy pressure yet to fit into whatever jeans I have in my closet,” she continued. “I don’t even think about them right now! In my everyday life, I would have an event coming up or need to work out and it’s just really nice to have a break and be happy where I am.”
It’s a change from McPhee’s paststruggles with disordered eating and bulimia, which came up againin the early stages of her pregnancy.
“It just suddenly came up in a way that hadn’t been present in a long time,” she said onDr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcastin early March, explaining that she had “felt really stable in my life in the last four or five years, and my weight has been more consistent.”
“But feeling like there was a relapseafter getting pregnant was reallyshocking and upsetting and concerning for me, because I was suddenly so obsessed with food, starting from this first trimester, and I had such a distortion of the way that I looked,” she said, later adding that she gained about 40 lbs. during her pregnancy.
McPhee said the disordered thoughts eased after her first trimester, and she also worked with a psychiatrist who helped her understand “that it’s really common forwomen who have struggled with eating disordersin the past to have almost a relapse, in some sense, when they enter pregnancy.”
And post-partum, McPhee is feeling happy with her body.
“There’s just a lot of anxiety,” she said. “But I weathered it and I’m just really grateful I’m at the end of it [and] that I feel this good and that I look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Yeah, my legs, my thighs, my arms are a little bit thicker, but I’m okay with it.’ "
If you or someone you know is battling an eating disorder, please contact the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or go to NationalEatingDisorders.org.
source: people.com
