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Sadie Robertsonis not letting online haters get her down about her postpartum body.
The 24-year-oldDuck Dynastyalum said Sunday on Instagram that she recently received a message from a fan that unfollowed her on the social media platform. But Robertson said “it was WHY that got me” in a lengthy post about the encounter.
“She went on to say that it is bc of how much I brag & flaunt my body & how hard it was for her to see my body after giving birth ‘bounce back,’ “the reality star wrotealongside images of herself one month pregnant a year ago and of herself now, after giving birth toHoney Jamesin May, posing in the same pants.
The comment stung Robertson, who noted most of her life events aren’t documented on social media — including the trials she’s faced since giving birth.
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The last year, Robertson said, was more about her growing as a person than the physical changes she experienced as part of motherhood. She hopes her fans are able to see the growth she’s made in various aspects of her life, from love and endurance to faith and hope, among many other things.
“I honestly believe those things are more helpful to show [than] the bumps, the jeans not fitting, the workouts I can’t do & so on,” Robertson concluded.
“Ladies, I just want to challenge you not to become insecure bc of what someone else chooses to or not to post. Our confidence should not be found on the measure of how good or bad someone else is doing.”
Robertson has not shied away from discussing life as a new mom in the past. During an episode of herWhoa That’s Goodpodcast in July, Robertson said she was initially “on cloud nine” before struggling with postpartum anxiety.
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“What it kinda looked like for me was, honestly I have struggled with anxiety for years … I’m constantly trying to fight fear in my life,“she said at the time. “But whenever I have hurt and I was going through that postpartum, it was so many emotions happening that I couldn’t really fight the fear like I normally do. All of a sudden I was just in a state of anxiety. I didn’t even realize it was creeping up as much as it was.”
Robertson said her “mind kept going into the ‘what if this would have happened? What if it did last one more minute and she didn’t make it?'” when thinking about the “very scary and really dangerous” labor she and her newborn experienced.
source: people.com
