Over the weekend, Duchess Kate made her first two public appearances since giving birth to baby Charlotte and debuting the baby publicly. That was May 2nd. And in the month and a half that followed, Kate pretty much lost all of the weight from her second pregnancy. If you really want me to examine her body, I’d say she’s still carrying a few pounds of baby weight, but I’d also say that she looked really good as-is, and she might want to think about staying at this weight because it really softens her face and makes her look younger. Anyway, tons of sites were running “How Did Kate Lose The Baby Weight?” stories over the weekend and now People Magazine has the answer – she hired an expensive London trainer who began working with Kate while she was pregnant!
Skinny jeans six weeks after delivering daughter Charlotte? When you’re Princess Kate, yes. In this week’s cover story, PEOPLE exclusively reveals the secret to her fit form: a top London trainer who worked with the royal mom, 33, throughout her pregnancy.
The trainer, who is popular with an elite clientele of A-listers, royals and executives, “was brought on board while she was pregnant and is super-discreet,” a source tells PEOPLE. “It’s a lot of money, but you get a lot for the price.”
Included in the package is a tailored fitness routine and regular monitoring.
“The trainer checks in remotely with Kate by phone every day as well as seeing her in person once a week,” says the source.
As for diet, Kate – who breastfed Prince George and is likely doing the same with Charlotte – is a clean eater who has always gone heavy on organic fruits, veggies and lean meats. The trainer embraces a similar philosophy – with a high-end twist.
“The food is very elegant and actually feels like food you would eat at a restaurant,” says the source. “The whole program is very sensible – it’s not fad-based and is really focused on your overall health and well-being.”
I don’t know what you want me to say here. On one side, it really sucks that Kate feels she has to be so image-conscious that she can’t even just relax and enjoy the pregnancy and the post-pregnancy time with her children. On the other side, I can only imagine the headlines at the Daily Mail and other media outlets if Kate had dared to leave the house with 20 pounds of “pregnancy weight” still left. Anyway, this “program” sounds like the classic rich-person thing. You spend a crazy amount of money for prepared meals or a private chef cooking to narrow specifications and you’re monitored every damn day about your food intake and exercise. Beyonce, Gwyneth, Tracy Anderson and many more are trying to get into that business too. It’s lucrative if you develop a “program” that works for rich people.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Surrogate!
Stop. Nothing supports that claim except unsupported rumors.
Absolutely, she used a surrogate. Right with you Emma.
The Queen of England would never, ever ,ever allow that to happen.
No. (1) She would not risk her child’s place in the line of succession. Even if she would, she’d have to answer to Carole and I don’t think Kate would either. Wait 10 years and not be the mother of a future monarch? No way. (2) It would require a conspiracy of massive proportions to carry out successfully. Twice.
She’s a wealthy woman, who cares a lot about how she looks. She wasn’t heavy before and she won’t be heavy after. They aren’t Hollywood.
Bluhare
Logic and reason aside. Not a single 1 of those making these claims has ever given any evidence to this. At best we got a story that had roots in a type of fanfiction/negative Kate.
If Emma or India could provide something solid or at the very least something that can’t be traced back to sites with no facts to support the claims i’ll eat my cyber hat.
Bluhare, these two are more Hollywood than any other members of the BRF.
They may be more Hollywood than the rest of the royal family, but they aren’t Hollywood. They’re future heads of state who ought to get their heads out of their
arses and act like it. Although in fairness to Kate, I think most of that is her husband.
I think Emma and India are being facetious.
Pretty sure at least one of them wasn’t being facetious, Megan.
Megan
Bluhare is right. There’s 1 name that I’ve seen on various other royal threads saying the same thing as fact.
bluhare, she’s the one who requested the add-on trip to Hollywood and wanted to meet Jolie. She’s as much at fault and as shallow as he is.
But they aren’t Hollywood. Being dazzled by it and being part of it are two different things I thought. And if they DO think they’re Hollywood, woe betide the monarchy.
Arranging a meet-and-greet with Jay Z and Beyonce mid-court? Hollywood not monarchy.
Royals arrange meet and greets if there is someone they would like to meet. The fact that they arranged to meet them doesn’t make them members of Hollywood. If you’re saying they like the glamour part of their job, I can agree with that, but they aren’t Hollywood!!
Nota/Bluhare
I’ll toss in my 2 cents. They share traits with those who want “Hollywood”. Meet famous people. Be admired by the average people. The priorities are similar with better pr and packaging. Hollywood though, no. I might be misunderstanding “Hollywood”.
I will speak from personal experience and say in Hollywood a significant portion of A Listers used surrogates, and have for decades. Think of your friends that have had babies- they can be perfectly fit and still get body changes like a wider bum, swelling that doesn’t go away post partum, etc. what are the odds that all of these celebrities don’t get swollen ankles? The only one I am certain was pregnant was Kim K, thanks to her swollen ankles. My friend who is a constant runner had a very swollen face during her pregnancy, and she was barely recognizable. It just seems crazy all of these girls just get a tiny little bump, and no other normal outward pregnancy symptoms. Kate may be different bc it is monarchy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t care, as long as it was her egg and his sperm. They might even consider it safer.
Lily: the part about risking the line of succession is what is important here.
The baby has to be gestated by someone LEGALLY MARRIED to the person in the line of succession in order to inherit the crown. And that’s before you get to the genetic material.
It’s not enough to be her egg and his sperm. She, as his legal wife, has to carry it and be witnessed birthing it.
Using a surrogate automatically disinherits the baby since baby wasn’t carried by legal wife ie surrogate isn’t legally married to person in the line of succession. Even if genetic material is Kate and William.
It’s the law.
It also applies to adoption.
Considering how thirsty Carole and Kate were for the crown, they would never risk a surrogacy, or even adoption, knowing such a thing automatically disinherits their progeny.
As for the size of her bump and lack of swollen ankles, as much as people’s bodies are different and react differently to pregnancy, you also have to remember that Kate lives in a world of thinspiration.
Ask amandapanda. I actually joke with my beautician about the thin pregnant ladies in our neighbourhood. It’s become the norm for me such that i’m agog at someone like a Kim K and her swollen feet/ankles. Liz Hurley, who lives in my neighborhood is the only woman i’ve ever seen look pregnant, swollen everything and all. And she hid in the latter part of her pregnancy. Google pregnant pictures of Donna Air, Natalie Pinkham, Holly Branson, Jemima Khan, Emilia D’langer (especially Emilia) to name a few to see the thin pregnant ladies that are to be found around here and or near Kate. Emilia is godmother to PGtips and was photographed 7mths – ish at the christening.
Photoshop!
She had obvious pregnancy weight belly at Trooping the Colour the day before. The stripes on her shirt in all the photos the next day are all obviously photoshopped.
She had on a damn coat that wasn’t tight and i covered her whole body.
I think MinnFinn might be joking.
Oh stop with the surrogate nonsense. Hundreds of people would have had to be in this “conspiracy” of morning sickness, clothes designing, hospital and doctor visits, birthing, etc. It’s ridiculous. She’s not the first woman who bounced back. Good for her.
Well plenty of people here were in on the conspiracy that she didn’t really have morning sickness.
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No, that’s not exactly correct, Megan. Plenty of people wondered about the veracity of the HG diagnosis this time, NOT that she didn’t have morning sickness at all.
I do believe the discussion was about whether or not she had HG, not whether or not she had regular morning sickness. Big difference.
Blu/Nota
I wrote that, but deleted. Didn’t want to re open that can of worms.
It was a very interesting medical discussion.
Well, if she used a surrogate then she did a very GOOD job at hiding it and also incredibly smart the idea putting on weight around her behind and legs to seem convincingly different as she is def. packing in a few pounds…
I also think her thighs look bigger – not big at all – just bigger than her usual weight. It definitely looks like the extra padding you get with pregnancy.
And really she bounced back quickly, which lots and lots of women do. I wore my prep-pregnancy jeans 8 days pp… I carried and delivered my own baby, no surrogate necessary.
Super rude and total BS. She’s always been fit, just because heavier people can’t fathom her fitness doesn’t mean she’s a faker. Utterly ridiculous.
Nerdista
That wasn’t why people started the rumor. It was a few reasons. The least being her weight.
It’s pure bs, but the origins are not where you think.
And wow. To think that people must be heavier? Why?
That’s super rude of you.
And Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are still secretly married and have two secret children named “Sweet Pea” and “Jelly bean” (Govt. names unknown. Consult HKN for details on names, I’m sure “cuz” will know!).
Annd don’t ask me how this got here. It was supposed to be under Emma’s comment, the very first in the thread??
Royal babies would never ever be born by surrogate. It threatens the line of succession.
There have been more than a few “warming pan babies” in royal and aristocratic history. I don’t think that is the case here, btw.
If I could afford this, I would do it too. She won’t get any shade from me.
+1 all day
Same here! What I wouldn’t give for someone to pre-make all of the meals for me and my husband and all I needed to do was cook for my daughter… Things would be so much easier and it’d be a breeze loosing the 10lbs of baby weight I’m still carrying 17 months later!
Sign me up.
You do understand she isn’t paying for it, right? It is Charles via The Duchy, and yes, The Duchy does belong to the taxpayers. Who was it that did the brilliant summation of why crown lands belong to the people not the royals? LAK?
I’m not a Brit, so I don’t really care who actually pays for this stuff. Just saying that if I had access to it, I would utilize a service like this too.
Yes, the Duchy of Cornwall for the most part is paying for Kate’s luxurious lifestyle. William of course came into an inheritance from his mother at 25 or so, and their 21-room Kensington Palace pad was renovated to the tune of four million pounds (sterling) and that came out of the Sovereign Grant, which of course IS taxpayer money, as well.
If I were British, I would resent it hugely, but it looks like the Windsors will go on forever.
I don’t think it’s about shaming her, I think these stories are a pushback. No one is saying that she shouldn’t be doing this, people are just sick and tired of celebrities telling them that they lose weight just by breast-feeding or something like that.
I mean, Kate is athletic and was in good shape pre-pregnancy, chances are, even if she were “poor”, she’d still bounce back quite nicely, and that’s great, but expectations of what women’s bodies MUST look like within weeks after birth are unrealistic these days, it’s not just weight, but no stretch marks or extra skin, etc.
I did forget that aspect of it. I was blinded by the joy of someone else cooking dinner. WHAT AM I GOING TO MAKE FOR DINNER??? Sorry.
GNAT
Chicken, Soba or Cellophane noodles/rice and mixed veggies (spinach, halved cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, red/orange peppers for color). Simple and quick. It’s my fall back. Flavor with whatever sauce you like and bread chicken if that’s a preference. I break with panko.
I’m American, but lived in London for several years. Some may grumble about the cost of the monarchy, but most Brits would walk through fire for their Queen. The overwhelming majority love, adore and respect her. It’s true.
Do you know for sure the Duchy is paying for it, nas? I can see an argument for it, but I’ve not read that. That being said, I didn’t pay that much attention to it either.
I’m much more interested in the finances coming up actually. Speaking of duchies and royal income.
i’ve had meal delivery service and a trainer at times and im no where near her level of wealth
and the whole world isnt commenting on my pictures
I would too, but I think she looks great now and believe she and her trainer should work to maintain this weight. She looks so much older when she pushes it more than this. It really is a trade off and I don’t think the thinnest you can be should be the goal. People that go too far end up looking like bobble-head dolls and in my view it is not healthy so not worth it.
I think so too. So worth the money (if you have that kind of moolah to throw around)!
Same. Personally, I think she looks great right now. Also,,there is nothing wrong with taking care of yourself and wanting to look good and healthy.
I actually think she’s a good 10-15 lbs heavier than she was pre baby, but she looks great and has good muscle tone and obviously very good genes. I say good for her because she would be ripped to shreds if she stepped out looking anything less than totally put together.
She looks good at this weight
She is definitely heavier, but this is an ideal weight for her. She looks amazing.
+1- I agree that the press & public would be up in arms if she stepped out without looking good. I think she’s in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” life.
I can’t say I totally blame her. If she stepped out still heavy, she’d get lambasted for not representing the royal brand well. Look at what just happened with William’s cousin Zara – she attended an event with a really ill-fitting dress that bunched in the stomach and revealed a slightly pooch on her, and she had to formally deny that she’s pregnant after the press reported it. How embarrassing. I think the British royals are strongly about image and Kate knows the game, so she plays it.
Mary of Denmark has a stylist* and a trainer too, because in this day and age, it’s almost a given that you need to be picture perfect all the time.
*Kate does not have a stylist and should
Katie snaps back very quickly because she is quite a sporty person, Zara I don’t know about her cause she is also quite sporty maybe she is just taking her time. But post baby or no post baby that dress was just awful.
I do sports every day but I doubt that my body would bounce back like that. It’s her body type plus she’s eating not much.
@Loopy, Zara is a professional, Olympic-level equestrian…so, yes she is sporty for a living. She just has a different body-type/shape and, IMO, isn’t obsessive about being underweight like Kate is.
I also am 100% convinced she is pregnant and just didn’t want to announce it. There is no way she’d be that round just in the belly when her legs were FIT (I mean her specifically, not that people can’t be apple-shaped)! She also looked to be specifically pointing out her belly to her cousins in several of the pictures, so I’m voting pregnant.
Although…then in another pic she was drinking champagne, so maybe not!
I think she looks good, and also that she really controlled how much weight she puts on during her pregnancy.
But, I have to say I totally thought Zara was pregnant based on the photos of her in that horrible yellow dress at Ascot the other day. I recently read that Zara is the highest earning royal, and made over ₤47 million last year! I highly suggest she hire a stylist with some of that money, because that dress was so ill-fitting and unattractive I can’t believe she chose it.
WHAT???? How does she earn that much!?
Are we talking differences between earning vs. funds spent and allocated to you?
Loopy – she’s an olympic medal winning eventing rider. if that figure is true (its pretty steep though) it will be from sponsoring as well as breeding, training and selling horses. I think she and her husband also own racehorses.
Here’s the link to the MediaMass article that details her earnings, which, I stand corrected, were only $46 million last year, not ₤47 million 😉 http://en.mediamass.net/people/zara-phillips/highest-paid.html
“The British princess has an estimated net worth of $145 million. She owes her fortune to smart stock investments, substantial property holdings, lucrative endorsement deals with CoverGirl cosmetics. She also owns several restaurants (the “Fat Phillips Burger” chain) in London, a Football Team (the “London Angels”), has launched her own brand of Vodka (Pure Wonderphillips – UK), and is tackling the juniors market with a top-selling perfume (With Love from Zara) and a fashion line called “Zara Phillips Seduction”.”
Zinjojo–MediaMass is famously a hoax website with a series of recycled subjects: Celebrity is a) dead (usually a car crash in New Zealand/Australia. OR b) Married/PregnanT. OR c) beloved pet is near death in surgery, uusually a dog, OR said celebrity’s net worth, bolstered by highly unlikely projects/products.
Our best beloved Hiddleston has been featured on that site in categories A-C, but they haven’t yet claimed he was flogging badly named vodka and perfume!
Seriously, Zinjojo–if the ‘Fat Phillips Burger chain’ didn’t give it away, this line of bright red text between the first and secon paragraphs should have got your attention:
UPDATE 18/06/2015 : This story seems to be false. (read more)
Mediamass puts it in all of their articles, and it links to an explanation of why they do hoax articles.
Personally, I don’t think they are very nice people.
There’s a headline about media and satire, but the site is also COVERED with serious, real world ads. So *I* think they are just creating absolutely the most click-baity stories they can come up with, raking in the dough, and protecting themselves legally by claiming it is all satire!
“The website mediamass.net is the medium of our satire to expose with humour, exaggeration and ridicule the contemporary mass production and mass consumption that we observe
Also it will not only mock the producers (mainstream media, journalists) as it is common when questioning and criticizing mass media, but also the consumers as one cannot exist without the other. Sensationalism, lack of verification of information, ethics and standards issues are only symptoms of the actual social and economic order. This is particularly obvious when observing the role of social networking sites in spreading rumours.”
That last line always gets me.
@TotallyBiased, they totally got me on this one! Thanks for the head’s up, and I get it — kind of like The Onion.
Did a little more digging and she’s still earning a very respectable ₤1mm per year 🙂
She has always been this image conscious and weight conscious, since the first big weight loss at University to try to get noticed. Followed by the big weight loss to keep him interested. It is not related to her current public position, but has been the way she sees herself and keeps him at her side for 14 years.
It might be a family issue too. Both Pippa and Carole have slim physiques. (I don’t think that’s a bad thing; I just noticed that there is no one even somewhat plump in her family.) I don’t like Pippa’s face much, but her body is in really good shape. She looks stronger to me athletically than Kate.
Their physiques are not naturally this slim. Have you seen her healthy weight photos from University, before her first big slimdown? They are medium to large bone and carry at least a stone less in weight than is healthy.
Yes – she and the rest of the woman in her family are very image conscious. When the engagement was announced wasn’t there a press story about how that were on that Atkins diet (Carole and Kate?). They are habitual dieters who always seem to jump on the latest fad. I saw her in person a month or so after the wedding and she was so thin that i could see her knee bones – they were soo prominent. I hope she stays where she is at now.
Its sad that she feels has to be like that as it would be nice to have more people like Zara and Rebel Wilson being praised and promoted for their voluptuous figures.
Zara has always been curvy – she and her mother are among my favourite royals.
I didn’t mean that they’re naturally this slim — just saying that the idea of being a coveted ideal of slimness has always seemed to be important to them. I know Kate was chubbier in university, but I just figured her mom put her on a diet if she didn’t already get the idea on her own from seeing her own slim mom. I think it’s probably easier to get motivated by dieting if everybody in your family is into that sort of thing.
Zara has never been skinny. She’s always had a big tummy – for want of a polite way to put it, but check her out in her wedding dress – but she’s also said she wasn’t in a hurry to lose the baby weight. This is the result.
Unlike Kate, Zara has to be physically able to compete–if she were to prioritize getting down to the waif weight that Kate seems to strive for, she’d probably have a hard time maintaining the stamina and strength required for her equestrian competitions. Zara strikes me as someone who is fit and sporty and probably has better things to do with her time than micro-monitor her pregnancy weight gain or crash diet her way down to a pre-pregnancy weight. Kate, on the other hand, doesn’t really have anything going on other than being in the public eye, so she’s made her physical appearance (not necessarily her health or fitness) into her job.
A lot of it is just the body type you were born with & the habits which you developed over time. Charlotte Casiraghi is also an eventer like Zara & she’s regained her pre-pregnancy weight & fitness level. She just competed at something recently. Both Charlotte & Zara make money not only from competitions but from endorsements & probably a whole lot of brilliant financial managing by the people they hire to do that sort of thing. Money makes money.
She looks amazing as is. I’ve always preferred her casual best.
She looks amazing but then I think she also wasn’t a gainer when she was pregnant .. I can’t imagine what it took to skinny jeans that SO QUICKLY I Mean… Two a days, all that bland food goosed up and so forth (that is kinda fascinating to me, rich folks with nothing to do but work out twice a day and eating just so for a magazine cover and telling us is just breastfeeding and running around with the kids) – But no shade if i had all that money, and time I would do that NOW
OOFF but yeah The pressures of public Mommyhood and the Mom Industrial complex of being skinny in two months ( Hell, I can’t do that NOW being unpregnant) Is like reason number 5082374 Why it could never be me (I’m Lazy, Don’t like kids all that much, have no patience, like my independence, don’t wanna raise anything that isn’t a dog or a plant, am the Paycheck to Paycheck Phoenix and More salient reasons, but Still)
QQ your posts are my favorite!!!! I feel you on the paycheck to paycheck situation.
Thank You Boo! I wish the Paycheck to Paycheck Phoenix Life ON NO ONE not called Charlie Sheen
QQ – love all this!!!!! 🙂
Substitute “dogs” for cats and we’re samesies, QQ.
Paycheck-to paycheck these days and it SUCKS.
Um no, it has little to do with wealth and much to do with muscle tonus and fitness before pregnancy plus weight gained during pregnancy. The helathy weight gain for a pregnant woman is nowhere beyond 15 kilograms. Everything else, if not a result of medical condition, is irresponsible and greedy. I am a former professional athlete, still exercise every day, I am not rich, and was back in my jeans two months after giving birth without breastfeeding. I gained 13 kilograms while pregnant. Being pregnant is about healthy eating a wholesome diet not stuffing ourselves like turkeys.
After outlets (ok, fine, just the Daily Mail) incorrectly assumed Zara was pregnant, I don’t blame Kate for wanting to lose weight quickly. She’s able to do it because she doesn’t put much weight on during her pregnancies. Plus, her whole family is slim, she has always been slender, so this is pretty in character and on-brand for her. She is looking happy and G is such a cutie. No hate!
You’re right – she didn’t gain a lot to begin with and even if she did absolutely nothing in terms of exercise, she’d probably revert back to her natural size quite quickly. By “natural” size I don’t mean the emaciated state she became after the engagement – I mean what she was like before – healthy and slim without being bony and ill-looking. All of the Middletons seem to be very athletic and none seem to have a tendency to pack on the pounds.
Too bad Kate feels the need to starve and strive like this. Can you blame the media? I don’t recall ever reading anything remotely critical about her weight in the past so I don’t really know where this is coming from.
It has been her modus operandi since University, mostly related to getting William interested or keeping him interested in her.
I would do the same if I could afford it.
Whatever works for Kate and makes her feel good, but it bugs the hell out of me that women are expected to get back to their pre-pregnancy figure 6 weeks after having a baby. That’s the point where you’re supposed to get your doc’s clearance to START working out again.
I honestly think a lot of it has to do with genetics. My sis-in-law lost 95% of her baby weight within about 4-5 weeks, but she was very small – short, thin, very small frame – to start with so I think it just fell off naturally.
But see, that’s the thing (IMO) about Kate – I don’t think she is this small naturally and so she has to over-exercise and under eat to maintain her post-engagement body. I think she’s an exercise addict and limits her calorie intake to too low levels and that’s why her skin always looks awful and dehydrated. She is nutrient and probably fat deficient (again, IMO). The body needs a certain amount of fat for health.
I suspect her return to pre-pregnancy shape is part genetics, part not overgaining during pregnancy, part working hard during and after to stay active and eat right (does she eat right? Or eat minimally?).
But even believing these things, I still hate the unrealistic expectations/desires these images create in me.
For her to snap back that quickly, it likely is genetics. Both in how she gained through pregnancy and how she came back from it. As much as people talk about how it’s easy to take care of yourself through pregnancy and not gain too much weight, some people just gain more even if they eat sensibily and continue to exercise. It’s a crap shoot.
Why do you think she’s not enjoying her pregnancy & post-partum time? She’s always been athletic & there’s nothing “wrong” about having a trainer. Many new moms go to gyms right away but if Kate doesn’t want to hit the local Curves or YWCA that’s bad? Some women bounce back quickly – I did, with no effort on my part. I gained 35 lbs but came home from the hospital only 7 lbs over pre-preg weight & was in my regular jeans in 2 weeks.
I am the exact opposite. I only gained 22 pounds (first trimester HG), yet came back from hospital with 14 pounds still on me. I managed to lose a couple more in 6 weeks but thats about it, despite eating all home cooked and very healthy. Now that Im put on a crappy non-allergic diet due to multiple food allergies of my breastfed baby, I have actually regained those couple of pounds! Ouch!
I dont blame her. If you have the money why not. Although, many would say in the UK, that it is the taxpayers who pay for it. I lost my post pregnancy weight the budget way. For one child, I tried Weight Watchers and the other child, Jenny Craig and I did all these Post Pregnancy exercise classes. It took longer than Kate, but it worked.
I think this was her size when she was dating William, its probably her true size.She only got super skinny starting from her engagement.
Yep.
Yep — and she might have been carrying even a few more pounds during the Waity Years, based on some photos I’ve seen. She looked fine, then went into that mega-dieting mode after the engagement. I honestly noticed how much older she looked, rapidly, before I clued into the fact she’d lost so much weight.
Yup. The normal weight here is ideal for her. She looks healthy and overall better.
Exactly. Pre-engagement she had a figure many would kill for — lean, athletic and looked great in whatever she wore.
Well, if Internet sites were going to post pictures of my butt six weeks after I gave birth, I’d probably make a pretty big effort to keep it in shape, too. If I had the money to hire somebody to cook me fresh, healthy meals, I’d be all over it.
Personally, the women I know who made the effort to get the baby weight off quickly are the ones who actually lost it and aren’t still talking about it two years later.
RobN
Well, they were only posting if you approved to arrange this and wore tight jeggings. If Kate didn’t want to be photographed it wouldn’t happen at an event like this.
She’s entitled to go out in casual clothing, she’s entitled to take her kid to watch his father play. She stays in and people complain, she goes out and people say it’s just for attention. It’s ridiculous.
RobN
I, at no point, said she wasn’t entitled to do those things.
What I did state is that she is being photographed here because it was approved by all parties involved. If she wanted to go out and not be photographed at this event. It would be done. Kate would be off limits and that would be heavily enforced.
And Kate has gone out with heavy restrictions on cameras. You usually see her surrounded by very tall RPO’s with her in the center. You only know it’s her from eye witnesses because no photo can make her out.
Simply put. Kate leaves her house to do stuff. Sometimes the PR is involved. Sometimes not. It’s not black and white.
The whole polo photo shoot was obvious PR, with the royal stamp of approval. Kate made the most of it. The messages were that Kate has lost almost all of the baby weight, and she’s “such a hands on mom” with George. PR success.
Ha-ha, I am sure I’d be so stressed I’d quit eating alltogether.
I actually never had trouble losing baby weight since I gained very little with both pregnancies, basically due to nausea and then restricted diet to a condition I had. However, I have put on a lot of weight post-pregnancy due to no sleep, no time to exercise, changing metabolism. If I had the time and money for a personal trainer and chef I would do that so quickly.
It’s sad that there’s really nothing about her that’s interesting. Soooooo boring.
I know. She excels at being uninteresting. I often feel that I’ve wasted my time when I read a news story about her.
I vivedly remember what the press did to Diana and Fergie regarding their weight. That must put tremendous pressure on Kate. She must have to have nerves of steel every time she leaves the house. Those boys…sigh. Michelle Obama’s flirty face when having tea with Prince Harry was killing me! Loved it!!!!
Catherine
The press has been very kind to Kate regarding her appearance. Mostly because she’s the spouse of the heir. Fergie was never going to be praised.
And the press by a very large majority was puts little to no pressure on Kate at all. She’s praised for anything. Bargain shopping, giving birth, wearing her hair up.
All pressure on weight has been self applied. While every time she’s gained there’s been praise. If anything the comments on her weight in the press have been concern for her thin frame and praise when she gains and looks healthier.
totally agree with this comment!!!
I agree, FLORC.
“She’s praised for anything.” You hit the nail on the head, Florc. She even gets positive attention for hiring someone to keep her motivated and on-track with her weight loss plan.
To add..
She is criticised, but it’s rare that is done in the press. And it’s passive aggressive at best with compliments rolled in to soften the article.
And no way any of what is said on these forums gets to her. Maybe her PR as her image is their job, but not Kate herself.
I hope this coddling changes at some point. I think it’s safe to assume that the reporters who write these fluff pieces are privately quite resentful about the obvious bias of opinion in the coverage. I don’t think it accurately reflects public sentiment.
I read an interesting article that said some women (usually shorter women) suffer from a condition called diastasis recti. It happens when the corset of muscles that wrap around the torso split down the middle as the baby grows during pregnancy, and fail to knit back together afterwards. It is actually a person’s organs pushing through the gap between the muscles. Women with large babies or who are shorter are more likely to get it. Kate is so tall, she likely did not experience this, but the article suggested that Prince William’s cousin Zara did – who also has recently given birth.
I can totally relate because I work out every day and eat well, but after having my baby my stomach still sticks out. I am the same weight as I was pre-pregnancy but my tummy just bulges a bit. It looks like it was the same with poor Zara, who had to issue an official statement that she was not pregnant after being at the Ascot this weekend in a yellow fitted dress and everyone assuming that she was pregnant again. So, Kate worked hard to get back into shape but she was also one of the lucky ones who did not suffer from this condition.
I felt badly about that because I was pretty sure she was pregnant too. She must feel terrible having to come out and deny it. I really like Zara. She seems the most well adjusted and happy of the lot of them.
It’s weird to me though that she did come out and deny it…which makes me think she is pregnant but didn’t want to disclose it yet for some reason. She really doesn’t seem like the kind of person who gives two craps about what people in the media say so I was shocked she would have issued a formal denial. Seems out of character for her.
Inthekitchen- Her rep explained that she is not pregnant as she is focusing on the Rio Olympics next summer which she has qualified for. They denied it because her sponsors need to know if they are going to have their representative participating or not.
I put a lot of pressure on myself to lose weight after my son was born. I started out at 110, gained 37 lbs, had a c-section. Did as much walking/easy excercise as I could do as soon as I got home from the hospital. My maternity leave consisted of feeding the baby and doing workout videos while he watched me. I had to wear a hideous bridesmaid’s dress in my brother’s wedding 5 weeks after having the baby. I still had about 10 pounds to lose and was not happy with how I looked at the wedding at all. I kept working out and got back to my pre-baby weight by the time my 12 weeks of maternity leave was over. I would not have felt like myself again if I had not done that. Then it was wasy to keep it off, because of all the stress of being a working mom I’m below my pre-baby weight. I probably would look younger and more rested if I gained back a couple of pounds.
I’m curious about something since I’ve never had children. You are now below your pre-pregnancy weight, have your measurements changed at all even though you are at a lower weight?
Not really. I’m only like 2-3 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight. I just feel like I look a little gaunt/tired. My son is now a toddler that I chase after all the time, my meals are like a quick pb&j, that he asks for part of, because everything mommy is eating looks better than his food, even though it’s the same.
I’m wearing the same clothes I wore befoe although it took close to a year to get back to my original bra size- I breastfed for about 5 months.
Vava
They can. Hips can expand and chest size can increase/decrease. All while getting back to your pre pregnancy weight or even lower.
Yes, absolutely. Even though I still fit into my pre-pregnancy clothes no problem and I’m below that original weight, my hips are slightly wider, my boobs shrunk a full cup size yet my back widened by an inch (finding a 35A bra is impossible) and if I eat a carb heavy meal, I look 6 mo pregnant all over again because despite tons of exercise, my stomach is just softer and weaker now….even three years after giving birth. Your body always carries the mark of pregnancy 🙂
Yes, mine did, and I was an athlete for most of my life, still, the pregnancy changed the distribution of mass over my body. My waist, for one is way wider despite maintaining my exercise routine as always.
I am the same weight as before children but after 2 kids my hips are even chest are at least a couple inches wider. I can’t fit into my old clothes. Pregnancy definitely changes the body.
Princess Diana put a lot of pressure on herself to be thin too. I think that’s what happens when the world spotlight is on you. I don’t think it’s odd. Still think Kate is super-boring though.
why?
There’s room for a Bowflex at Club Amner.
🙂
Because sometimes it’s much easier to work out with a trainer. I was the fittest of my life when I had one. If I had extra money now, I’d do it again. I’m working my way back from being poverty stricken and it’s on my list when I get some discretionary money!
This seems off to me. It’s been noted Kate has personal trainers. She had them with George too. Multiples really. 1 main trainer and others as assistants of sorts. When Kate was losing the baby weight this was all stated in official releases around that time. Her diet and exercise routines as part of it. And a private trainer in such demand would likely have staff to send out.
She sounds like she needs that motivation and no shade. I’m a personal instructor/class instructor and I get that. To meet once a week though… I’m betting there’s more than that. She has someone guiding her along.
And Anmer has a shiny new gym with the very best equipment and various courts for sports.
And a pool too! Lucky Kate. I’m a swimmer and I wish I had my own pool. So does my daughter.
The description of the personal trainer makes me think it was Pippa. It wouldn’t surprise me if Kate paid her sister to help her.
Here’s the thing about pools… They go largely unused and require a lot of money to maintain. A few years ago FMORC and I just dug it all up and out.
Our inground pool was costing us about $22 a swim with all the costs. Water treatment, pump maintenace, liners, cover maintenace (animals would tear it open) fence, insurance, and not even tallying up our time. Yes, it’s nice to go for a dip and do laps, but it wasn’t worth it to us. And we didn’t always have time to even enjoy it.
We do have an endless pool now and so much easier. It’s the price of a very pricey car, but we love it.
MinnFinn
Makes you wonder what happened to those specially repared smoothies Pippa was gifting to Kate.. Designed to be meal replacements.
FLORC, Are there no Duchy(ies) in your life that could have funded your old pool?
My condolences. Having a sugar daddy used to occasionally appeal to me but since learning about Kate, I’ve realized that a tax-free duchy or two is less complicated.
Smoothies instead of a lean, healthy meal = silly fad.
How about the endless pools? Now there’s an exercise designed for Kate and added bonus of no trainer required. Compact, well designed and energy efficient if hooked up to solar power.
MinnFinn
Happily There are no duchies in my life. My income is self earned. Honestly, the idea of being an adult and having my funds gifted by another sounds horrible. I would feel in that persons debt. I would hate that. And working adds structure to my life. Makes my down time all the better.
I was a smoothie girl. It wasn’t great. Depending on the smoothie you’re leaving out the bulk of fiber and nutrition. My energy would go up and soon crash. I had to begin eating solids. My then bf (now hubs) could not deal with my hunger mood swings.
Lol Citresse
Exactly! I love mine. Having it screened in helps too. No bugs, Direct sun, or rain. And it’s optional heated.
FLORC, you have an endless pool? Sounds DIVINE!
Yes to self earned income. When that is the case there is no answering to anyone, which is the only way to live, IMO.
I’ve never gotten into smoothies. It seems like an odd craze to me.
Vava
So Divine!
Smoothies make a lot of nutritional sense. Some bodies can’t break down foods as easily or completely as others. A blender will do that with ease. It’s more what you’re making (fruit/veggie) and what you’re leaving out/keeping in (pulp/skin/fibers). Or a way to consume all these foods you can’t carry around and eat like an apple.
People take it too far though and use it as meals. A smoothie should never be your meal if you’re active. It should be a part of it.
Zara has a much more vibrant personality than Kate and so I enjoy her. She really could use some assistance with a stylist though, to dress her body in an attractive way. That tight yellow dress didn’t flatter her and was not a good choice for her. Zara should wear dresses that float away from the abdomen with a neckline/collar that draws the eye upward to her beautiful face.
I can understand Kate’s desire to get back to shape, if I were in her situation I would too. I don’t think I’d hire someone to help me, though. I could do that myself. I just wouldn’t take it as far as we all know she will. She will look haggard and older, just wait. At least those maternity jeans didn’t show a camel toe. I hope she got rid of those royal blue jeans from a couple of years back, and while she’s at it, toss the wedges of doom. LOL. The casual outfit from the polo photo extravaganza seemed fine to me. She was obviously looking for the cameras that day, and now she can return to her hiding as she starves herself. She won’t want to keep that round face, even though she looks a lot better with it!
God, I hate those jeans on her. Whether she’s in great shape due to an expensive program or not, those jeans are ugly and I truly dislike her sense of casual style.
It’s just a bit repetitive that’s all.
Anyway, I’d rather see her casual clothes and shoes than some of attention grabbing off duty clothes of 80s Diana. Remember the skirt with polka dot ankle socks? She could have stuck to the jeans and boots look which I liked.
I had to google that, but yeah, that sort of pseudo-casual look is not something I would be interested in now. I can see how Diana caught attention with it, though. LOL
Diana was much younger than Waity is now when she went through what was called the Disco Di phase……
Yeah and I have a feeling Charles didn’t like the Disco Di phase. He also didn’t like it when she sat on his car (also during polo). They certainly had rows probably on a daily basis, but I also believe they had times of great make -up sex. Translation: it wasn’t all bad.
However Charles is a such a jerk for bringing photos of his mistress during the honeymoon with Diana. He set the tone for the marriage. And I don’t believe Charles’ biographers when they claim he did try (with Diana). I think Charles was unfaithful from day one.
I only remember her sitting on his car once at polo. It was in response to a positive thing Fergie had done and Diana wanted to take the press off Fergie. Hiking up her tight skirt and sitting on Charles’s car bumped Fergie out of the press.
Nobody looks good in skinny jeans , I can’t wait for them to go out of style.
I love my skinny jeans. Mostly because my fall below the knee boots go on more easily with a small ankle cuff. Outside of that they’re not comfy. Even Kate in various pictures has to pull them up to avoid plumber crack shots.
No rich person wants a celebrity trainer like Tracy Anderson. The rich prefer somebody more exclusive and elusive and never-in-the-tabloids.
As for Kate’s fitness regime: it is ridiculous that a woman with housekeeper and nanny and chef and personal assistant needs a personal trainer for exercise and food monitoring.
I’m not sure where everyone gets their info regarding Kate and her personal habits, maids etc. Sounds all made up to me. She appears naturally fit and slim and is most likely one of those people who take good care of themselves. I think she looks beautiful always. I have a similar build and recovered shortly after giving as well due to good habits.
Her trainers and eating habits have been commented on directly from her PR office.
Regarding routines, trainers, how many hours devoted, eating habits, etc.. Same with recent hirings, staff, nannies, etc.. Why they had to state this directly seemed odd. Kate’s natural body is the figure she has now. That’s why she looks so good imo. It’s the frame and weight she had up to 2007.
Nah, except for the engorged breasts, she’s still thinner than her regular/natural /previous weight. I should stress that when she was at her former weight she was still slim by most people’s standards. Not gaunt and scrawny but slim and athletic.
I would totally take a personal trainer right now – 10 weeks post baby. I was back at my pre pregnancy weight about two weeks post baby but I would love to have someone hold me accountable to focus on just “me time”. It’s incredibly easy to get trapped into the world of baby if someone isn’t there to push you out of it for a few hours here and there.
Last weekend was the first time I was apart (went for breakfast with the girls) from my baby (other than in the next room) in six weeks. When I told my husband it had been six weeks, he had a look of horror on his face. He had no idea it had been that long since I had time to myself without a tiny human leech attached to me.
i don’t get the spray on jeans if she got in shape so quickly,they look horrible, I do think it’s vanity,she would look just as good in loose fitting jeans, to say the least she’s worse than Diana, she is both self-posessed and self-obsessed.
Maybe she likes being skinnier. She looked more glamorous when she was skinny. Now she looks just beautiful like the most of the good looking peasants.
I’m amazed she drop the weight and breastfeed. The second I tried to restrict my milk supply plummeted.
The same with me. I had to eat a lot to keep the milk going. And then I hear all these celebrities (Mila Kunis) telling everyone how they lost weight because they were breastfeeding.
And a lot of regular women claim the same too.
Never worked for me. If it takes 600 cal to produce milk then I had to eat those extra calories in order to keep my body producing milk.
” If you really want me to examine her body…” no, I don’t. Ugh. Why are we always so hell bent at critiquing women’s bodies? Love coming to this site for mindless celeb gossip but….come on….can’t we just be supportive of one another, as women, and leave the body image stuff alone. Especially where pregnancy is involved.
IMO, Kate Middleton has always tied her self-worth and sense of achievement to her looks. She has always spend a lot of energy focusing on her looks and her body. Massive weight losses. Fad diets. Hours of exercise a day. 10 hour a week at the salon. Spray-on tanning. It appears to be nearly an obsession. Her body and her personal grooming are nearly she does, along with shopping and vacationing. Our discussions are an extension of that.
Dang, baby got back.. I’ve never seen her butt look so good! She needs to stay this size. Wonder if the Prince is a butt man…
If we’re choosing a royal body (and booty) type we’d like to have as our own, I’m going with Victoria of Sweden.
A university gf of William’s was voted as having the best bottom. Outside of that he’s always gone for very thin ladies. Usually long brown hair with a rare blonde. Kate’s weight has dipped well below what we can assume his weight preference is given history.
As far as caiming any “dang” and “baby got back” from photos it looks like Kate has reached her healthy weight. If that’s all that’s is needed to qualify i’m living in a neighborhood of Sir Mix-a-lots dreams. A bunch of healthy ladies with small bottoms.
Hahaha,I meant that as relative to the size and butt she normally has; I think this is as curvy as we’ll ever see her and its a really good look. And I’ll second Queen Victoria on best royal bod