14 DAY TRIAL // Hayden Panettiere has kept to herself for the most part of her pregnancy, but the 8-month-pregnant actress is now opening up for the first time on her experience so far – and she doesn’t sound like she’s very thrilled about the amount of weight she’s gained.
The pint-sized actress and boxing champ turned politician Wladimir Klitschko are expecting their first child together, a baby girl. Hayden reveals now that she has no intention of marrying Wladimir until she shifts all that extra weight.
She’s short, so every pound counts
Speaking to Hello! Magazine, the former “Heroes” actress admits that being as short as she is comes with a huge disadvantage: namely that every extra pound counts. Though she was prepared for some weight, she admits she didn’t expect to go as high as 40 pounds (18.1 kg).
“And the worst part is that my feet are still size five and they're going, ‘What's going on with all this weight?’ They're about to snap from underneath me with the strain,” Hayden admits.
The upside is that all that weight is helping her strengthen muscles: Hayden has always been on the athletic side, so she’s happy that she gets to build even more muscle mass by carrying all this pregnancy weight around.
No wedding until she’s back to her pre-pregnancy shape
However, gaining a bit more weight than she expected is the least of Hayden’s worries: she is eager to meet her daughter and she’s ready to get settled into her new life as a mommy.
In a recent interview, the actress said she was convinced she knew what she needed to do to raise a “strong” daughter, because she would anticipate some of the obstacles she’d come across, from her own experience.
In the short-term, Hayden is looking to lose the pregnancy weight in time for the wedding, which she promises won’t take place until she’s back to her previous figure. She doesn’t have a deadline though, so this means she will be losing the weight the healthy way, through exercise, eating healthy, and nursing.
Hayden Panettiere, a role model for girls and women out there
This isn’t the first time that Hayden steps back from the rhetoric usually employed by celebrities as regards weight loss and weight maintenance. There are stars out there who lost the pregnancy weight in a record number of weeks, going underground right after birth and emerging victorious a short while later, to show off their new figure obtained through grueling workouts and severe dieting.
Hayden is the exact opposite of that: she’s candid about gaining weight and not wanting to marry Wladimir while she’s still heavier than normal, but she will probably not sacrifice her health or her time with her daughter to get results quicker.
Hayden was never about sacrificing something dear to her in favor of earning more fans, so, when the tabloids ran photos of her at the beach with cellulite on the back of her thighs, instead of starving herself to suit Hollywood’s ideal of beauty, she got candid in an interview on how she was a normal woman even though famous and rich.
So yes, that also meant that she had cellulite.
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