NewIdea
  • Royals
  • Celebrity
  • News
  • Beauty & Style
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Travel
  • Home & Away
  • Podcasts
  • Win
  • Video
NewIdea
  • Royals
  • Celebrity
  • News
  • Beauty & Style
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Travel
  • Home & Away
  • Podcasts
  • Win
  • Video
Subscribe
Home and Away opening title
Watch 1:09

Home and Away opening title

{headline}

{headline}

Heartwarming photo of little girl holding newborn brother she helped deliver goes viral

Turia Pitt tells all: Eggplant parmigiana helped bring on my baby

Constance Hall reveals the gender of her unborn baby

Constance Hall reveals the gender of her unborn baby

Grandma-of-two: ‘I became a mum to TWINS at 51’

{headline}

{headline}

‘My pain threshold isn't as low as I think’: Constance Hall on the birth of her new baby

Inspirational photo captures breast cancer battler nursing newborn son

‘So beautiful’: Why women love this mum’s candid post-birth photo

{headline}

{headline}

Turia Pitt shares her struggle with breastfeeding

Turia Pitt shares her struggle with breastfeeding

Mother’s heartbreaking vaccination plea goes viral

Mother’s heartbreaking vaccination plea goes viral

Mum whose terminally ill daughter moved the world tells of her grief

Mum whose terminally ill daughter moved the world tells of her grief

Mum-of-six reveals how to have a thrifty Christmas

Mum-of-six reveals how to have a thrifty Christmas

Can you see why this mum hated this photo?

Can you see why this mum hated this photo?

‘Pretty scary’: Pregnant Turia Pitt is about to pop!

‘Pretty scary’: Pregnant Turia Pitt is about to pop!

Bub and your ‘other baby’

Bub and your ‘other baby’

  1. Home
  2. Parenting

Mum becomes internet star after learning to love her stretchmarks

Lisa Wilson used to long for her pre-pregnancy physique - by Josh Saunders
  • 29 Jan 2018

A mum-of-two has become an Instagram star after her kids taught her to love her stretchmarks and 'ugly skin' caused by childbirth. 

Lisa Wilson, 28, from Michigan, USA, used to long for her pre-pregnancy physique until she started celebrating the 'beautiful body' that gave the mum her children.

She initially felt insecure about her stomach when daughters Brielle and Vienna, five and three, prodded, poked it and asked questions about the 'saggy' areas, last year.

Mum becomes internet star after learning to love her stretchmarks

Lisa Wilson (pictured) used to long for her pre-pregnancy physique until she started celebrating the 'beautiful body' that gave the mum her children

Caters News Agency

But after contemplating her embarrassment, she decided that instead of hiding the scarring left behind by childbirth she should celebrate and embrace it by taking empowering pictures.

Lisa hopes the shots will inspire her daughters and other mums to love their stretchmarks and bodies too, instead of feeling under pressure by society to cover-up.

Now with over 17,000 followers, she regularly posts pictures online revealing her stomach in lingerie, using glitter and other scenes to try to change people's opinions.

Mum becomes internet star after learning to love her stretchmarks

Now the mum has more than 17,000 followers on Instagram

Caters News Agency

‘My daughters both had a fascination with the stretchmarks and loose skin on my tummy, I just saw it as a fat and didn't like it,’ Lisa explains.

‘I felt really self-conscious when they were poking it, I thought it was something weird.

‘But after I had some time to think, I realised it was a bad message that I was sending to my daughters by being embarrassed of how my stomach looks from carrying them.

Mum becomes internet star after learning to love her stretchmarks

Lisa hopes her pictures prove you can still be sexy as a mum

Caters News Agency

‘I chose to be proud of it and embrace the belly that grew to fit them inside. As a society we think of it as a bad thing, we shouldn't look at it in that way.

‘I also wanted to show you can still be sexy as a mum, you can have flaws and insecurities because it's real and authentic.’

Now Lisa sees her stomach in a different light. 

‘In society, it's seen as less desirable or unattractive, but I grew two human beings to 41 and 42 weeks in there, I shouldn't be embarrassed by that, I should celebrate it instead.’

Follow Lisa on Instagram here

  • Parenting
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Diet
  • Weight Loss
  • Pregnancy

Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!-SAVE 79%

Subscribe to New Idea today

Subscribe Now
Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!

Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!-SAVE 79%

Subscribe to New Idea today

Subscribe Now
Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!

Recommended to you

Home and Away opening title
Watch 1:09

Home and Away opening title

{headline}

{headline}

Heartwarming photo of little girl holding newborn brother she helped deliver goes viral

Turia Pitt tells all: Eggplant parmigiana helped bring on my baby

Constance Hall reveals the gender of her unborn baby

Constance Hall reveals the gender of her unborn baby

Grandma-of-two: ‘I became a mum to TWINS at 51’

{headline}

{headline}

‘My pain threshold isn't as low as I think’: Constance Hall on the birth of her new baby

Inspirational photo captures breast cancer battler nursing newborn son

‘So beautiful’: Why women love this mum’s candid post-birth photo

{headline}

{headline}

Turia Pitt shares her struggle with breastfeeding

Turia Pitt shares her struggle with breastfeeding

Mother’s heartbreaking vaccination plea goes viral

Mother’s heartbreaking vaccination plea goes viral

Mum whose terminally ill daughter moved the world tells of her grief

Mum whose terminally ill daughter moved the world tells of her grief

Mum-of-six reveals how to have a thrifty Christmas

Mum-of-six reveals how to have a thrifty Christmas

Can you see why this mum hated this photo?

Can you see why this mum hated this photo?

‘Pretty scary’: Pregnant Turia Pitt is about to pop!

‘Pretty scary’: Pregnant Turia Pitt is about to pop!

Bub and your ‘other baby’

Bub and your ‘other baby’

NewIdea
  • About Us
  • Subscribe Today
  • Contact Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Competitions
NewIdea Magazine Subscribe
  • About Us
  • Subscribe Today
  • Contact Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Competitions

Brands

  • Girlfriend
  • New Idea food
  • Practical Parenting
  • That’s Life
  • Who

Our Network

  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • BHG Shop
  • marie claire
  • Instyle
  • Beauty Crew
  • Women's Weekly Food
  • Bounty Parents
  • Home Beautiful
  • All Recipes
  • Perth Now
  • The West Australian
  • 7Plus
  • Airtasker
  • 7NEWS
  • SocietyOne
  • Health Engine
  • Starts at 60
© 2021 Are Media PTY LTD
Get more from New Idea

Magazine Subscription Offer

Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!-SAVE 79%

Shop This Offer
Just $6 for 6 issues delivered!