1. Halsey shared several pictures of their postpartum body and a candid caption after receiving compliments following an appearance on Saturday Night Live. "I do not want to feed the Illusion that you’re meant to feel and look 'great' immediately postpartum," they wrote. "That is not my narrative currently."
2. Lindsay Lohan posed in her postpartum underwear while recovering from her recent delivery of her son Luai, and even managed to make a spot-on Mean Girls reference. "I'm not a regular mom, I'm a postpartum mom," she wrote.
3. Keke Palmer opened up about how she made the "personal choice" for her career to start working out again quickly after giving birth, and she worries how that might set "unrealistic" standards for non-celeb parents.
4. Katy Perry shared an extremely realistic "VMA prep" (no, she did not attend) pic just five days after giving birth to her daughter Daisy, sharing that her pumping bra was "by Medela" (a breast pump brand), her hair and makeup was by "exhaustion," and her postpartum underwear was by Frida.
5. Jessie J has been extremely vulnerable sharing about her postpartum experience, including a reel she posted in June with some much-needed reminders about what exactly her body had endured. "Your body was a home for someone else to live in for 9 months," she shared in the caption. "Your organs have moved and need to find their way back to where they were before. Your uterus is still deflating slowly."
6. Blake Lively opened up about feeling "insecure" because her post-baby body could no longer fit into sample sizes. "That body gave me a baby," she wrote. "And was producing that baby's entire food supply. What a beautiful miracle. But instead of feeling proud, I felt insecure."
7. And Sophie Turner identified with Blake's sentiment, sharing Blake's post with the caption, "Yes @blakelively. One more time for the people in the back."
8. Aja Naomi King shared a joyful post about her postpartum journey, particularly explaining how an "after" pregnancy pic doesn't actually look like what people might think it does. "After experiencing the unimaginable beauty of childbirth, this is what is left behind," she wrote. "This Gorgeous Body!"
9. Hilary Duff preempted any news coverage about her body, sharing a post about enjoying herself on vacation. "Since websites and magazines love to share 'celeb flaws' — well I have them!" she wrote in 2017. "My body has given me the greatest gift of my life: Luca, 5 years ago...my body is healthy and gets me where I need to go."
10. Heather Rae El Moussa shared a picture of her postpartum body just one week after delivering earlier this year. "My activities include breastfeeding, pumping, repeat," she wrote, while showing her Frida postpartum underwear in the pic.
11. Jeannie Mai-Jenkins explained that nothing prepared her for postpartum, and that her "fourth trimester" was the hardest one of them all. She shared a photo of herself just days after giving birth while still wearing postpartum underwear. "No book I’ve read, advice I’ve gotten, that could have compiled ALL the things I’d need just to sit, lay down, walk, or even hold our baby," she said.
12. Cardi B took to her Instagram stories after delivering her son Wave (her second child) to clear up rumors that she'd had cosmetic surgery quickly postpartum, saying, "You cannot do surgery after you give birth, especially me," she shared. "I lost so much blood guys." She also stressed to fellow parents to "take your time" postpartum.
