For whatever reason, people are still talking about what Beyonce did to take off her “baby weight” (“pillow weight”). Beyonce tried to discuss her postpartum weight issues, but much like everything else in the interview involving the discussion of her pregnancy, everything seemed slightly… “off”. It reminded me of that scene in The 40-Year Old Virgin, where Steve Carell’s character is trying to describe what a boob feels like using really weird descriptors and suddenly everyone realizes he’s never touched a boob ever. Anyway, Beyonce told People Magazine that her post-baby weight loss was simple: “I counted calories. I worked out maybe three to four times a week. I did a lot of walking in the beginning and now I’m running. But I had to work my way up. I couldn’t just go right from being pregnant to running.” So it’s weird that Beyonce’s trainer says something different, right?
It’s hard to believe that Beyonce Knowles gave birth just four months ago.
The singer, 30, confidently showed off her svelte post-baby body in a sexy black swimsuit in St. Bart’s April 9 — and with good reason. Knowles hit the gym five days a week with trainer Marco Borges. “We do cardio and plyometric moves like lunges and jumps on and off a bench, the pro tells Us Weekly.
The 5-foot-9 star, who is breast-feeding, avoids processed fare, sticking to whole foods like vegetables and grilled meats. “You don’t have to eat only celery sticks,” Borges advises. “Be sensible and exercise constantly.”
Currently rehearsing for her first post-pregnancy show on May 25 in Atlantic City, Knowles — mom to daughter Blue Ivy with husband Jay-Z, 42 — “is loving her body!” a pal tells Us.
[From Us Weekly]
“Exercise constantly.” Lunges. Jumping off a bench right after you’ve given birth? Sure, maybe the trainer is talking about what Beyonce is doing NOW, not just after she had “given birth.” Sigh… I don’t even know anymore.
By the way, Beyonce keeps adding photos to her Tumblr. She just added the one of the “BLUE” necklace yesterday! I kind of like the Blue bling.
Photos courtesy of Beyonce’s Tumblr, Fame/Flynet.
Beyonce looks really pretty in the last photo.
Beyonce is metamorphosing into LeAnn Rimes before our eyes
“Bey was working out 5 times a week” – More like 5 lipos and voilà.
whatever.
Exercise constantly? Sure, if you have an army of nannies and other help. I’d think most new mothers would be thinking more along the lines of “be with the baby constantly”.
I’m thinking baby is just a prop, an accessory.
Not only that, but as any breastfeeding mother knows, you’re bound to your newborn’s feeding schedule of every two hours or so around the clock. Not to mention your extreme fatigue every single day. I didn’t even THINK about exercising until at least the four month point or so.
She’s exalting the benefits of breastfeeding in the same breath as she’s stating that she could be away from her infant to do vigorous exercise. That doesn’t ring true for me. No one can replace the mother at that stage of infancy. Nothing about what she’s said seems real to me, and I’ve had two children and am a working mother, as well as a healthcare professional for 20 years.
My baby is three weeks old. At this point, I can manage a walk a day (with her in the sling). I have no idea how much I weigh, but breastfeeding definitely helped. I can’t imagine exercising for awhile, and I eat what I can, since I don’t have time to do a proper grocery shopping trip. All my time is spent with my daughter.
However…
If my priority was getting back into shape, and if I had a lot of money, I think I could do it. I’d pump so that someone else could do the nighttime feedings. I’d hand my baby off to someone between daytime feedings. I’d have someone cook my meals, and someone else look after my daughter and change her diapers. I might have to stop my sessions to feed once and awhile, but I’d have my nanny stand by to take baby when I was done. I wouldn’t do any of this even if I was rich, because nothing can buy back time with my child, but I’m sure that’s what some people do. Not that that’s what Beyonce is doing, but theoretically it would be a great way to get back into shape….
Not sure it takes training when fluffing a pillow. You just shake it out really.
Kinda tired of the rag mags raving to average woman how much weight (baby or not) celebrities lose.
LOL!
Hey now, she probably had to be instructed on how to fluff a pillow, home-girl has an IQ of a box of hair.
LOL! 🙂
HP, what did hair do to you that you could be so cruel?
Agree, it’s like a new way to put pressure on women.
They keep adding more and more.
Yeah, I had a baby less than a month ago and I fight feeling like a fat failure since I’m still 20 pounds heavier with a full-on jiggle belly. Celeb world is not realistic and I hate how tabs promote it like it is the norm.
Each time it just seems like a new (extreme) method of losing celeb baby fat or “fat” in general. Ok we get it celeb women! shoo!
Maybe what we all saw as a fake pregnancy bump folding as Beyonce sat was really just Blue Ivy doing lunges in utero. Maybe the ability to do lunges before you should be able to is just hereditary.
LOL
oh my gawd i can’t stop my eyes from rolling. whatever bey! no one will ever convince me she actually delivered the baby, not even if i was shown her vj and was there for me to explore. yes i am disgusting, but this is how much i don’t buy any of the crap she’s selling ( in any possible way)
Yeah I’ll definitely never be convinced either; she was 100% never pregnant imo
So regardless of what goes on you just love to hate on her in other words is what your saying. Good to know. How about you work on that personal problem.
More information from Beyonce that doesn’t ring true.
She needs to STFU and get out of the news for awhile.
None of what she is saying will rescue her reputation and actually makes it worse.
The last photo is funny, look at Jay Z. It looks like he is hiding behind her and D***, does he have a huge head.
Beyonce has to be one of the most manufactured artists in the industry. I am sure an entire PR team and professional photographer are behind her tumbler.
I just read yesterday that her and her label are trying to claim that her single, “who runs the world,” was a joke and that it was never intended to be her lead single. LIES! just stop with the lies.
You know, thanks for pointing out that Bey is such a heavily constructed public figure.
Every site/magazine keeps writing just how “private” she is and I just don’t see it! She’s constantly in the public eye, never stops yammering about how faboulous she is and sells pretty much everything about herself, from her own body to clothes to whatever.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but that’s not a very private person. Also, it’s not a very good strategy and it’s very poorly done. She comes across very silly and out of touch with reality in interviews. Whatever.
I rather hear about Jessica Simpson cause I know she was pregnant and actually gave birth for real.
Sorry Bey-Bey, still think it’s a pillow baby.
I’ve never given birth, and I know the experience is different for everyone, but is it really healthy/plausible for a woman to do strenuous exercise immediately following? I know for cesareans it’s definitely not, but Beyonce claims she gave birth vaginally…so. Dude. Someone needs to tell her to just shut up about this. Or do something different to distract everyone from asking questions. I wonder if she ever misses Matthew. Pillow Gate would have never happened with him handling her career.
I waited a while. Maybe longer than I should have but honestly I just wasn’t in the mood to exercise hard until 5 months PP.
@ kazoo —
It’s not recommended (as one is still bleeding for a bit), but it can be done. Every woman is different, so some can return to harder activity faster than others, but most (good) doctors would tell you to take your time so your body heals properly and you avoid future infections/complications.
Of course, for women who have pillows for offspring this information might not apply…
HAHA.
Okay, that’s what I was thinking. I mean, your body has gone through major trauma. It just doesn’t sound right to be up and at your pre-pregnancy workout routine the next day.
I think most doctors tell women to wait 6wks, for the bleeding to taper or stop and all that stuff to heal down there. But walking and gentle abdominal exercises are allowed. Anything strenuous is not recommended (at least where I’m from…as in not hollywood).
I cant STAND those shoes that shows the toes like that.. ugh!!!
She’s “pretends” to be religious so I’m sure she’s a hypocritical liar (she marrried ex-crack dealer!).
That said, I could swear I saw a pic of her pregged-up in a two-piece with bump plus telltale preggo belly line?
That pic is questionable. The bikini has ruffles all over that could easily hide anything, like the edges of a prosthetic bump. Non-pregnant models wear fake bumps to model maternity clothing, including bikinis, and that’s what Bey’s bump looked like in that one and only bare belly bikini shot. JMO
Shoot. I could do a bikini photo like that after a large lunch….
What does Jay’s past life have to do with anything…If that’s who she loves then why should it matter. You wouldn’t marry your man just because he had a shady past life?
Not if he still used his drug dealing methods to conduct business and still profits off he fact that he injected poison into his own community through minstrel song..
Total pillow baby! No mom-to-be bends over at the waist anyway to sit down! You kind of do that reach-for-the-seat-behind-your-back thing…It is just what naturally happens. Did that many times lol.
good point!
I’ve never been pregnant so I don’t know, but is it a good idea to do lunges after birthing a baby? I’d be terrified my insides would fall out!
Tiffany…having 3 vaginal births let me tell ya, there is no way she was doing lunges before 6 or even 8 weeks…because for that long and beyond it feels like bottom is going to drop out! Kegel excercises maybe, anything else to the pelvic region, groin/inner thigh is BS. But then again us sane people living here on earth know this whole thing as been a big fabrication…we just don’t know why she would fake a pregnancy instead of admitting to using a surrogate for a family.
No Tiffany27, any doctor would advise a new mother from excercising? until at least 6 weks after giving birth. They usually give us the go ahead during our 6 weeks check up. Bey would know this if she had giving birth.
Lol! Looks like Chatcat beat me to it. But is any wonder we’re saying the same thing?. Maybe because we actually had to push a watermelon thru an apple, metaphorically speaking of course. 🙂
I hear your Truth and you and I feel your pain! lol
Yada, yada, yada, she did so birth her a baby, yada, yada, counted calories, yada, yada, bestest mother, singer, woman on earth, yada yada, was back having sex with her talented but ugly as sin husband, six hours after giving birth, yada yada yada.
Now that is funny and so aptly put!
LMFAO
LOL, you had me at “big ugly as sin husband” camel joe
All this talk… Does she not see how transparent she is? We get it, Bey. You are still trying to convince people that you actually gave birth. Problem is, not many people believe you. And the harder you try to convince us, the more pathetic it makes you look. Just stop!!!
Bey is so far removed from reality she might as well be living on Mount Olympus. Lord knows, she thinks herself Aphrodite so it would be appropriate.
Besides, who’s going to call her on her BS? How long can one maintain employment with JBCo if you don’t tell them what they want to hear?
Proof that Bey’s clueless: She hangs with Gwenyth.
‘Nuff said.
Wonder if she breast fed the pillow?
Milk through the nose Funny!
Life with the 1%. Sounds hard.
I gave birth to my son in February and was back on my excercise regime after 3 weeks. Slowly of course but it is possible. You just have to listen to your body. The birth was fairly easy as it only took 4 hours, so that probably counts.
I don’t believe for 1 sec that she was pregnant though, since the whole folding yourself to get into a car just a couple of days before the baby came. IMPOSSIBLE
Thank you to those who pointed out that there’s no way that you can do lunges after giving birth…(not even mentioning jumps on and off a bench o_O !!!!!)
Even after my 6weeks check up, there was no way I could practise such intensive sport…and before that, even going for a one-hour walk felt like everything coming out…
I think the lady is protesting to much again. First about the pillow/surrogate, then with the tumblr, then with the people mag article, and now getting her trainer in on it.
All of this ‘but no!’ crap is old and just makes her look worse in my opinion.
The last photo sums up everything about BeyLIAR. Fake. She’s a souless Barbie. No substance, no mind of her own. A robot.
And that chick is not 5’9. She is like 5’5 or 5’6. Lies.
Of COURSE she’s 5’9″…
…In four inch heels.
I was going to say this!
5’9?
Suuure.
Right on hotpockets, rocketmerry, some bitch, everyone – she has gone from merely dislikable to morally detestable – but why in GOd’s name do many in the media treat her like she’s some musical/fashion queen genius when as originalvictoria stated she’s soulless – perhaps because many in the media as just as shallow and soulless. Just wondering. Last photo is priceless – the dress has more intelligence than fakeyonce.
Her eyes look dead and gone in every picture.
In the article she clearly says she started of slow then worked her way to more serious exercises. I’ve read this article five times looking for where either of them said she was doing lunges 4 weeks after she had a baby. If Heidi Klum can show off a flat stomach 6 weeks after her child and I can bet a pretty penny she didn’t loose that weight by walking or doing slow exercises I’m pretty sure it depends on YOUR own body how hard you can exercise after a child
Yes, and Heidi Klum is a naturally thin model with a model’s body. Beyonce is far more curvaceous, and at times has gained a pound or two and it all goes to her thighs and butt. Miraculously, that didn’t happen in her pregnancy, even though it does for many women, especially those with a curvy body.
So over her BS.
What is she holding in the first pic? Is that supposed to be her baby? It looks like a pillow.
While still in the hospital I asked my doctor when I could start exercising (I’m a competitive triathlete and she’s a marathoner) and she said I could walk and swim right away, run in a couple of days and cycle when my stitches (3) healed. Bey was very fit before/during pregnancy, so I don’t think this is that big of a deal.
Like I already said her own family already confirmed she used a surrogate, it’s totally plausible she exercised 5 times a week since she never gave birth.
She still looks pretty heavy for someone who exercises 5 times a week.
this whole fake pregnancy fiasco was about maintaining her elephant size body from expanding into hippopotamus territory.
*** maintaining her elephant size body from expanding into hippopotamus territory. ***
brutal, but funny and true…
Exercising doesn’t guarantee you ll be skinny. I’d rather be heavier & toned than skinny & flabby.
I missed this. Her family confirmed she used a surrogate? And she’s still talking about her pregnancy? If this is true, she needs to have a talk with Sandra Bullock, whose family knows how to keep quiet.
I just learned this woman with vocabulary of a 10 year old is also being awarded
a Journalist award in May for a piece she wrote in “Essence” magazine.
Yes, I read that and I was pissed! The ‘letter’ was edited according to the magazine, but still doesn’t pass the smell test for me. The letter she wrote to Mrs. Obama was proof enough for me that either she didn’t write the “award-winning letter” or it was edited within an inch of it’s life to be readable, so the editor actually wrote it. I’m not happy with the unearned and undeserved prestige being thrown at this chick. It’s insulting to real journalists. She bought the People Mag title and now she’s buying journalism awards? She can barely speak without saying ‘um’ in a really doofus sort of way, but she’s an award-worthy journalist? Two word: Bitch please.
i thought that the fake pregnancy issue didn’t bother her – other than to say it was ‘crazy’. i think it’s so funny that she even has to address it.
did you all see that renaissance woman won some journalism award for something she wrote for essence.
Her note to Michelle Obama was a prime example of her inability to write.
Yes, funny, like, everyone she thinks she’s a moron for faking her pregnancy.
@ reg omg too funny, spat out my drink lol 😂
being a mom of two I have to say none of her BS makes any sense. and why does she keep talking about it all the time anyways?
That shoe is totally ridiculous. Are they at a Knicks’ game? And, if she’s carrying the kid in that Chewbacca-carrier – sister, please.
What did Blue Ivy’s mother do to stay in shape? That’s assuming she is, we haven’t seen any postpartum picture’s of her yet. I wonder, di she and “Bey” work out together?
So what. My friend ran a marathon when she was pregnant. Doing a few lunges is no big deal.
I’m sure she can tear herself away from the baby for 1 hr a day to go exercise. My sis is a single mother, who doesn’t have beyonce s £ & access to nannies and she still manages to do it. Sure some people on here criticising her for exercising are just doing it cos they feel guilty about their own laziness.
Wow, such vitriol spewed at a woman who is, by all reports, lovely to work with and supporter of a number of good causes, not to mention one of the world’s favorite entertainers for over 10 years. What has she ever done so awful to merit such hatred? Even if you’re dumb enough to believe that a A+++ list celebrity would try to fake a pregnancy in 2012, why so much anger at her? Yes, that (impossible scenario) would be stupid but how does that hurt YOU? There is just a LOT of bitterness here, rampant jealousy tinged with, dare I say, a dash of racism.
Bownce should stop paying people to write all bs praising her on these blogs, does her publicist ever sleep?
Don’t think anyone is jealous of Bowonce, but the Elephant in the room is, she faked her pregnancy for vanity sake, and that is repulsive, she’s way past her prime, and this will be the final nail if the coffin of her career.
Yes, her career is in danger, that’s why her AC shows sold out in about three seconds. Maybe you can be her new career advisor since she obviously has no idea how to make millions of dollars without you…
According to someone on another blog Bownce was at some government function, where she yelled at her staff and talked down to military personell. She is not a nice person, but a cold calculating B— with a a brain of a Dodo bird. She does not understand how faking her pregnancy and then constantly talking about giving birth afterwards could ruin her career.
Well if “someone” said so, I take it back, she SUCKS.
And I hope you’re not accusing ME of being her PR person. You need to check your facts (and more carefully than the blog story you sited as a source, too) because I’ve been posting here for ages and rarely even click on Beyonce stories because I just don’t get the hatred for someone so harmless.
Whereas everyone else wouldn’t get the multi-posting defence of Beyonce from someone who not only claims that s/he doesn’t care for the entertainer or read her stories but also knows somehow that she’s ‘harmless’. Paradox, anyone?
She said in People that she breastfed for 10 weeks, so that contradicts this report. Too many stories – they can’t keep them all straight.
Awhile back when Bey was pregnant, there was a blind which said a star was faking her pregnancy, but was actually using a surrogate. The blind said this star was taking some kind of steroid to make herself plump up a little and to appear fuller in the face, giving some realism to her “pregnancy”. Then when “the birth” ocurred she would quit taking the steroids and slim down. Then there would be stories in the media about how quickly said star had gotten back into shape by working out rigorously. Now here we are with this story. Makes you wonder.
Has anyone or are there photos of her actually breast feeding because if she wasn’t really pregnant then how has her body produced milk (not implying she really was, don’t know)?I’ve had two children: the first I couldn’t walk or sit for weeks. The 2nd I birthed on a Friday and was back to my routine on Monday, however lunges or any exercise to cause any “pressure” down there was not gonna happen. Also, I like Coldplay, I like Chris Martin or his musical talent I should say and I don’t mind Gwynnie too much but their OBSSESION with Jay Z I don’t f#%^ing get it. They have referred to him as a musical genius. I’ve never been impressed with some one who just sings “uh, uh, yeah…” not being a hater I really don’t get his fame. Oh and if she’s 5’9 I’m Michael K.
This is so silly.
I had a baby 3 months ago and my body is no better now than it was immediately after birth. I am in no way threatened by the fact that someone else lost their baby weight. I know I haven’t tried. If my livelihood depended on it, or I was somehow expected to, sure I could pump milk and find someone to watch my daughter an hour a day. Within 4-6 weeks I could “have my body back”, and so could most women if that’s what we valued. For most of us, it’s simply not what wr value. Good on her for it tho
Every woman I know gets bigger arms during their pregnancy , it’s the increase in hormones that causes fat to be deposited in different parts . B arms never changed at all .. Her ankles never got bigger , her face never changed ., please , this girl was never pregnant . Never !!!!
It has nothing to do with excersize, you don’t have a baby and then six weeks later have the same exact body you did before . Even with exversize . I’m the same weight as before but my hips are bigger , my boobs are bigger , things change after a baby .
Come on this is a blatant sham .
She obviously knows nothing about being preggo or labor
Oh please stfu love her neck got fat, her ankles and lower legs were swollen for a while in the one piece she wore 3months after thd baby you could still see her little pouch with her slightly sagging breast her lips were swollen even bed fingers to so I’m not sure what you’re talking about saying “her body never changed”. She gained a shitload of weight but dressed well so she didn’t look like a fat slob
*her
Bownce is a large woman, but she never gained 50 or even 15 pounds, I looked at most of pictures during her fake pregnancy, and there is no change in her face or body in any of them.
Like I said before she should have posted pictures of her bare belly in the last stage of her fake pregnancy, but she did not because she was not pregnant.
You can produce milk by using a breast pump which stimulates the breast an induces lactation, have you seen the movie,
“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle” Where the hired nanny used breast pump to secretly feed the child when mommy was away.
Not sure what you are saying.. in the movie the woman (Rebecca) was pregnant then lose her baby. She used the breast pump to keep the milk she was already making flowing so that she could feed the stolen baby.
Your comment seemed as if you were saying any woman can just produce enough milk to breastfeed
I’m not that savvy on breastfeeding.. but I don’t think a woman that has not been pregnant can just produce milk..
but I could be wrong.