To back to prenatal body is not as easy as it seen. Mariah Carey admits that after giving birth to twins Moroccan and Monroe, vic C-section on April 30, the 42-years-old star was disgusted with her own body.
It also removes her confidence in front of her husband, Nick Cannon. She refused to let her husband see her unless she covered up first. “I had a towel on in the tub,” Carey says. “I’m not lying, I promise you! You think I would let Nick see me looking rancid like that?”
After losing total 70 lbs in three months, the Grammy winner was interviewed by Gayle King at New York media appearance to promote Jenny diet products, which Carey as a paid spokesperson.
“I gained an enormous amount of weight, it was a huge blessing to be able to have the babies. But I felt trapped in my body because I couldn’t move.”
“I had a lot of complications when I was pregnant with my twins. People don’t want to hear you complain, it is a blessing, I got doubly blessed, but with twins they wreak havoc on your body.
“I barely made it through by a string, I was hanging on by a string,” she revealed. “I have been through my struggles in my life…putting on all that weight for me was so difficult and so debilitating.”
Carey says she gauges her weight by dress sizes and her appearance in the mirror, and noticed swelling from her ankles to her chest when she was pregnant.
But, during her check-ups, she chose to remain in the dark about exactly how many pounds she had gained.
“I didn’t want to know, because why would I want to feel that bad?” she explained. “I know it was a number that I never want to see again.”
“I had, like, no bones for a while,” she says, gesturing to her collarbone. “It’s important to me to feel my bones!”
Carey says she cooked hearty Italian meals and “soul food” throughout her pregnancy, and admitted that it’s easy to overeat when you’re eating for two – or in her case, three.
“Maybe the portions weren’t what they should’ve been,” she said. “Even as a pregnant woman you kind of have control over it, but you don’t feel like it when you’re pregnant.”
“I’m also 5’9″ and I’m not a petite girl,” she adds.
After giving birth, Carey says, she lost 40 lbs. in water weight and another 30 lbs. with the help of the Jenny diet program.
The singer has no plans to have more children in the future.
“If God chooses to do that to me, then we’ll, that would happen, other than that, I don’t think we would try for that ever again,” Carey said. “I really don’t know if I can make it through after what I went through, it was really tough.”
“I was in a lot of pain because o the fact that they’re twins… I had a rough one… I just want people to be prepared that it can happen where you go through a rough time when you’re pregnant,” Mariah said. “I did develop gestational diabetes. I’m good with that now, I’m ok, but you just have to be careful, nutritionally.”
