My body is so different now,
after I've had my children.
Six inch separation in
my abdominal wall.
Oh, my goodness.
I reckon I could probably smuggle
some like, little gin miniatures inside of it.
If I was going to a festival.
Ugh! Mums are super heroes.
There's some serious stuff
that our body goes through.
Your body does change so much though, doesn't it?
So much.
Did yous have a peak
down there afterwards?
It was definitely different.
Yeah.
Afterwards.
Yeah straight afterwards.
I don't know why I looked straight
in the mirror. Like I literally was like...
Is she still there?
Yeah, you kinda just get curious, don't you like?
And I was so upset.
I literally thought, like,
I'm young, everything's gonna snap back.
I'm gonna look the same.
But straight afterwards I was so
insecure because my vagina was
really like dark
and my groin area.
Nobody prepared me for it.
Do you know how your nipples get a lot darker?
That happened everywhere.
I'm just surprised that you could see it.
...right under.
Get the mirror out,
get the priorities, what's my crack doing?
I was a humble little C cup
and I liked them, how they were.
And then they just went heaving.
Big tits, they're annoying.
Does your partners ever like, comment on your boobs
after like, have they said anything
to you about what they think?
He's got more common sense than that.
My boobs aren't quite what they used to be.
They get so big when you're pregnant
and then you have your babies.
And then you can, you can audibly
hear like the eeeek...
as they just slowly head down
towards your toes.
Oh, another flight of stairs.
We're the C-section girls.
Yeah C-section sisters.
C-section.
Hold on cause my tit's hanging out,
now it's all going off mate!
Right. OK.
So Gemma, important question.
Yes.
How's your vag?
My vag is good Soph, how is yours?
Yeah, all good.
It's all fine?
It is, all literally in the hood.
So it's all, you know?
I was worried about a vaginal apocalypse.
Really?
That was like my biggest thing.
I didn't bother looking into any of
the other stuff.
Really?
About, like what comes next.
My only worries were doing a poo
or tearing.
But then again, the C-section,
it's not like we got away with anything.
It's not.
Cause there's other thing that you
have to deal with.
And that's what annoys me, actually,
when people are like, oh, you had it
the easy way.
Oh, yeah C-section, you got off lightly.
Yeah, no. Yeah I didn't,
I had a terrible time.
People think it's the easy way out.
No, it's not, it is really traumatising.
I hadn't seen any pictures of
what my stomach now looked like
on, you know, Instagram and Facebook.
Of course, cause nobody shows it.
Or you see their after baby belly.
Yeah.
But after they've had surgery.
Yeah.
So yeah, no one shows it, innit.
Or like the after baby belly but
they've tucked the pouch in.
Do you have a bit of the C-section
shelf going on?
Yeah you call it a shelf.
I called it ball bag belly
and my mum told me to stop saying that.
Gemma, stop saying that.
I wonder why.
I thought this, you know it's kinda like a sack.
If we're being like 100%
honest and you didn't have to go
under the knife to change something,
would you change anything?
I would probably change the saggy skin.
It's uncomfortable.
Yeah.
Like I don't have that body anymore.
Everyone makes it feel like
something that's wrong. Like even my mum
got a tummy tuck after she's finished
having her children.
So it's like you feel like
you shouldn't, shouldn't look like that
Are you bothered about getting back to
like, what you were before?
I'm learning to love my body again.
It's still changing.
I've made my peace with it, I think,
because once you get it round your head,
you know, I probably was never going to be
a Victoria's Secret model.
But you look great now.
But I probably don't need washboard abs.
Of course, there's always things
that are going to be insecure about
but at the same time, it's crazy
because I've realised that after
having my son, I feel like
I'm so much more confident.
I don't think I didn't ever
not love my body, throughout
any of it. I'm proud of what it's done. You know,
I've birthed two humans out of it and
not a lot of people can say that.
There's something about being a mum
that makes you feel like a badass, doesn't it?
It gives you a different appreciation for your body.
Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Becoming a mum totally changes your
perspective, doesn't it?