Rapper emerges for NYC performance, wows

Oct 1, 2014 13:20 GMT  ·  By
Lil Kim seems to have lost all the pregnancy weight she gained while carrying daughter Royal Reign
   Lil Kim seems to have lost all the pregnancy weight she gained while carrying daughter Royal Reign

As of last June, fierce rapper and occasional tabloid fixture Lil Kim became a first-time mom, giving birth to a baby girl she named Royal Reign. Before the baby was born, the MC promised her fans she wouldn’t let motherhood mellow her out and she seems to be keeping that promise.

Attached to this article is a photo of Lil Kim’s first public appearance (as far as the media knows) since she gave birth. As you can see, not only did she shift those pregnancy pounds as if they never existed, but she’s staying true to her pre-pregnancy style.

If this sounds as if we’re saying she’s dressing in the same kooky way as before, it’s because we are.

Rapper is back in top shape, less than 4 months after giving birth

Celebrities are often in a rush to lose the pregnancy weight, with those who manage to do it in as less time as possible getting the most media attention and the most praises. As it happens, on few of these instances do we actually hear that the women who manage this “feat” actually gain very little weight whilst they’re with child, which means they have just as little to lose after birth.

Lil Kim didn’t gain too much weight either, even though she was telling the media that she was finally happy to be able to enjoy as many pizza slices as she wanted without that pesky guilty feeling she always got.

At the same time, she revealed she was still taking proper care to get plenty of exercise and to continue eating healthier (pizza was the exception, we learned), because she was well aware that she was responsible for the little life growing inside her.

She seems to have continued with this lifestyle after birth, because she bounced back in shape very quickly (the “average” time for losing all the pregnancy weight in a healthy way is of one year). The photo above is of the 40-year-old rapper out for a performance at the Up & Down Night Club in New York City.

Celebrity weight loss is placing incredible pressure on young, non-famous mothers

While Lil Kim’s weight loss story is inspirational, it comes with a cautionary note: this is a celebrity we’re talking about, so regular women should not be held to the same standards and expectations as her.

Celebrities, by definition, must take care of their image, which often translates in many hours a week at the gym, a careful diet, and expensive treatments to fight back the signs of age, pregnancy or no pregnancy.

Many female stars give in to this pressure right after birth as well, because, at the rate the world is moving, they can’t afford to “go away” for a full year while enjoying motherhood and basically not caring about whether they lose the weight or not. So they end up sacrificing time they should be spending with their family for gym classes and calorie counting.

We’re not saying Lil Kim is one of them, but we are stressing this very important aspect: for as much as they like to pretend they’re just like us, celebrities are not. This means that we’re not like them either, so we shouldn’t beat ourselves up over such unimportant stuff like pregnancy weight. There are better things we can occupy ourselves with at this time in our life.