Charlotte Dawson has declared it’s ‘not normal’ to ‘snap back’ after having a baby and says becoming a mum for the first time has taught her to love her body.
The former Celebs Go Dating star, 28, vows to inspire other mums to ’embrace every single stretch mark and flabbiness’ in the same way she does with her 1.1million Instagram followers.
Charlotte, who welcomed son Noah with long-term partner Matthew in January, insists mums who ‘go straight back to the gym and eating healthily’ don’t accurately portray life with a newborn.
‘We can’t be so hard on ourselves’: Charlotte Dawson has declared it’s ‘not normal’ to ‘snap back’ after having a baby and says becoming a mum has taught her to love her body
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Charlotte said: ‘I just want to make other mums and other women feel good about themselves.
‘We can’t be so hard on ourselves. Obviously I don’t take myself seriously, as you all know, so I just embrace every single stretch mark, all my flabbiness, you’ve just got to embrace it, work with it, dance with it, shake it! And have a laugh with it.
‘I can’t sugarcoat it. Obviously there are days you don’t want to get up or do your makeup, hair.
‘I see some mums that go straight back to the gym and being healthy. That’s just not normal mum life.’
Charlotte stars with Matthew in new MTV series Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant, which follows their lives from pregnancy to birth, with the couple even filming Noah’s arrival for the show.
The former Celebs Go Dating star vows to inspire other mums to ’embrace every single stretch mark and flabbiness’ in the same way she does to her 1.1million Instagram followers
She explained: ‘You definitely see my intimate moments!
‘Matthew had a body cam on so we just kind of forgot about it and we had a few complications with the birth, you will find out.
‘You see everything, literally! It’s such a beautiful moment when it all happened, that pain just goes away.’
Charlotte’s four-week-old is already used to the spotlight after the reality star created an Instagram profile for Noah that has amassed almost 90K followers.
The influencer isn’t afraid of exposing Noah to trolls and while she admits there have been some negative comments on her baby’s profile, the last thing she wants is to hide him away.
‘That’s just not normal’: Charlotte, who welcomed Noah in January, insists mums who ‘go straight back to the gym and eating healthily’ aren’t accurately portraying life with a newborn
She said: ‘We’re obsessed with him. I made him an Instagram, he’s got b****y 80,000 followers already – it’s mad!
‘I didn’t know whether to put him on and I was umming and ahing about it and I thought “I’m going to do it'” and the response has been amazing. I don’t want to hide him away.
‘Obviously there are some comments. How the hell can you slag a baby off and troll a baby?
‘It just shows what type of person you are. Nothing surprises me with these trolls anymore. It’s just disgusting.’
Charlotte, who’s the daughter of late comic Les Dawson, explained her partner Matthew needed some convincing before signing up to the MTV show after living his life away from the cameras.
‘I don’t want to hide him away’: Charlotte’s four-week-old is already used to the spotlight after the reality star created an Instagram profile for Noah that has amassed almost 90K followers
She said: ‘Matthew is not in the public eye as much and I had to speak to him about it all and he found it a bit difficult.
‘He was like “I don’t know if I really want it” with the baby being public.
‘But he’s been amazing on the show, he’s taken to it so well and to have that footage and those memories you will miss on your phone.
‘That’s why we’ve done it because we can look back on this with him and as a family and all those moments you might forget, will be on the show.
‘So many magical moments like the birth. There are a lot of highs and a lot of lows, we don’t sugarcoat that, I don’t sugarcoat anything.’
- Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant premieres on March 3 at 8pm on MTV
‘He found it difficult’: Charlotte explained Matthew needed convincing before signing up to MTV show Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant after living his life away from the cameras