An Olympic hopeful and professional runner from Arizona has a lot more to be proud of these days than just her athletic accomplishments and happy family.
Stephanie Rothstein Bruce is training hard, hoping to join Team USA in this summer’s 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, but recently she’s been making headlines for an even more inspiring reason.
The 32-year-old professional runner is also a mother of two adorable boys, who are only 15 months apart. As we learned in this incredibly powerful story about two pregnant friends, there is no perfect pregnancy body and Bruce only strengthens this idea, proving that not even a professional athlete can’t always “bounce back” to her pre-baby body all that easily.
Bruce has been chronicling her Olympic training on Instagram after she recently suffered from diastasis recti during her last pregnancy. This happens when the abdominal muscles split and move out to make room for pregnancy, causing the “pooch” many women develop.
Bruce wrote “I am partly self-conscious but you’ll still see me rocking my stomach in my sports bra and race kit when my body is ready. Lots of work to do to get these abs back together and rebuild my core,” promoting the hashtag #keepitreal and asking other women to follow her journey.
The mom told People no one warned her of the physical changes her body might undergo. “It was really hard physically on my body and mentally, and as I was going through some things trying to get back into training, I was like, ‘Does this happen to all women?'”
“When I look down I see stretch marks that are here to stay, ab muscles that need continued strengthening, legs that are powerful, and feet that are ready to fly!” Bruce wrote on Instagram, inspiring women everywhere to be proud of their bodies.
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Brave Athlete Reveals The Shocking Effect Pregnancy Had On Her Body is an article from: LifeDaily