Yummy Mommy Angst

Submitted by Adriana Rae on May 19, 2008 - 12:35.

Are you a yummy mommy? Or aspiring to be a yummy mummy? Trying to keep up the body and cool from pre-mommy days with surgical mommy makeovers, $2,900 strollers, a yummy tummy, and botoxed forehead?

A lot of moms are feeling angst around this yummy mommy pressure these days.

There's a great article summing up the yucky yummy mommy Zeitgeist at the Georgia Straight. Here's a few excerpts;

The term 'yummy mummy' started as a shorthand for the glamorization of motherhood, a celebrity-led trend featuring "too-posh-to-push" C-sections, sleek and sexy maternity fashion, and a rapid return to fitness, hipness, and career. But for most mothers, that lifestyle is a fantasy.

Yummy mummy is negating the fact that we're not just the same people but with a baby...In mothering circles, some of the brand-new moms say, 'I had this image of myself pushing a Bugaboo, wearing skinny jeans, drinking a latte.' Soon after the birth, ... they discover the truth.

For a mom's life even to slightly resemble her former world, it takes lots of money–enough for a nanny, a diaper service, a maid service, and the "right" baby wardrobe and accessories. The term yummy mummy has serious class overtones...


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Yummy Mommy
Submitted by Taz (not verified) on May 20, 2008 - 04:06.

I feel this yummy mommy era is damaging to new mothers. At a time where they need support and comfort most are in complete distress about how to be "perfect". My youngest is 18mth and i still havent got back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Well with 3 other kids and a husband to look after, trivial things like a super flat tummy, the latest designer gear and perfect make-up and hair, dont even get a second thought. I had an aunt say to me 1 day "why dont you go and spend a day at the spa. Get yourself looking semi-normal again. You know that jeans and tank tops dont make you look like a lady." Bearing in mind, on this particular day i was knee deep in sand and water with the kids in the garden. Why when you are a full time mother, would you wan tto go around in heels and skirts??!! Practical clothes to fit what you are doing. Who needs to worry about how their make-up looks when you have a bunch of kids(me included) trowing mud balls at each other.
More important things in life than trying to be a yummy mommy.

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But Who Wants to be a Bummy Mummy?
Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 19, 2008 - 18:26.

I agree that many of the terms describing plastic surgery are overly cute. Mommy makeovers are one good example, another is "tummy tuck." This procedure involves a lot more than a little nip here and tuck there - it's major surgery and women and men should treat it that way. I work with a Naples cosmetic surgery practice and the key idea of all the procedures being offered is to be realistic about improving your life and your look. So maybe it's not about being a "yummy mommy" but it is about feeling confident and energized about your looks so that's one less thing you have to worry about as a busy 21st century parent.

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