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Nikki Bella and Brie Bella get candid about how they feel about their bodies after baby.
Nikki and Brie, 37, say they have been having a hard time with themselves since welcoming their sons – Matteo Artemovich and Buddy Dessert, respectively – in July. The Bellas podcast Tuesday.
The Dancing with the stars especially alum received comments on social media after WrestleMania asked if she was pregnant with her second child with her fiancé Artem Chigvintsev.
“No lol. I’ve seen some of these comments,” Nikki said in the comments section of photos she posted of WrestleMania. “My dress was sticky and with the number placement and lots of bloating of travel and hormones (milk is coming to an end), I look totally. That’s what it’s lol.
She added: “Wash abs during the day and a little tummy at night. #Momlife.”
On Tuesday’s episode of The Bellas podcast, Nikki went on to discuss the pregnancy speculation.
“[At home] I worked so hard to look good and when we flew there on Friday. “I was holding eight pounds of water and could not get rid of it,” she said. I inflated so badly that I felt like I was pregnant. “
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Nikki also said on her Instagram Stories that it’s ‘struggling’ that people ask if she expects it. “Hormones, body changes, and keeping 8 pounds of water weight!” she added.
Later on the podcast, Nikki added that she has “good days” and “bad days” when it comes to how she feels about her body.
“Think about how good you look at 37, and I do not know if you compare yourself to 20-year-olds, but compare yourself to your age,” Brie told her twin sister.
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Brie also talked about the candid social media message she shared last month, calling her stretch marks ‘treasure marks’, which Nikki says is a wonderful empowering post. ‘
“It was so that I thought so badly and inspiringly and made me so proud of you,” Nikki told her twin sister.
Brie then admits that she ‘goes back and forth’ about her decision to share the photo.
“I was ashamed,” said the mother of two. “And it was like the best photo out of the ten I took.”
Brie added, “I’m a human, so I have an insecurity with my stomach.”
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Brie and her husband, Bryan Danielson, welcomed Buddy in July. They are also parents of 3-year-old daughter Birdie.
” One difficult thing I’m experiencing in this pregnancy compared to Birdie’s is that my stomach just crashed, ” the mother of two said.
Brie said she does not feel “pregnancy has ruined me and that is why I call it treasure marks because it is something special.”
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‘I wanted to put it out there because I see how filtered the world of social media is, and I’m like, I know what I’m tired of, like keeping up with what’s supposed to be like the body you should be be and I want, I will put it on so women know [that] this is what the majority looks like there [after pregnancy], “she said about the social media message showing her stretch marks.” The perfect bodies really do not exist. “
Both Nikki and Brie talked about the pressure they feel to ‘cut back’ and shared a number of videos that work to achieve their weight loss goals together.