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"  Photo: YouTube Along with her chart-topping new album, the goddess who walks among mortals known as Beyonc\u00E9 has been releasing mini-interviews about the behind-the-scenes process of her visual album. In a clip called &amp;quot;Liberation,&amp;quot; Bey talks about getting back her pre-baby body: I was very aware of the fact I was showing my body. I was 195 pounds when I gave birth. I lost 65 pounds. I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show my body! I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can get your body back. I know finding my sexuality, getting back into my body, being proud of growing up, it was important to me that I expressed that in my music, because I know there&amp;#039;s so many women who feel the same thing after they give birth. You can have your child, and you can still have fun and you can still be sexy and have dreams and still live for yourself. Related: How Beyonc\u00E9 and Her Team Pulled It Off There has been a lot of noise recently about postpartum moms posting selfies of their fit bodies. The Norwegian fitness blogger Caroline Berg Eriksen posted an instagram photo of herself just four days after giving birth, showing off her flat abs. In response, bloggers called Eriksen&amp;#039;s post a &amp;quot;disservice&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;obscene.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Actually, it&amp;#039;s more than obscene\u2013this &amp;#039;Look how hot I still am!&amp;#039; obsession and need for public endorsement,&amp;quot; wrote Australian writer Rebecca Sparrow.  Photo: Instagram Sparrow thinks it&amp;#039;s obscene, in part, because moms should be focusing on how they feel, not how they look. But what she doesn&amp;#039;t understand\u2014and what Beyonc\u00E9 explains so clearly\u2014is that how you feel postpartum is often tied to how you look. I don&amp;#039;t mean that we all want or need to have washboard abs a week after shooting out a baby. Most of us are not making a living off our appearances, like Eriksen and Bey are. But, being pregnant means a total loss of control over your body, the giving up of your physical autonomy. While you can be fully happy to relinquish control for those nine months, it&amp;#039;s also perfectly healthy and even good for women to want that control back. Related: Why Do Successful Moms Talk About Their Children At Work? There&amp;#039;s a cultural pressure on mothers to give themselves up wholly to their children. (Sparrow exerts some of this pressure when she chastises Eriksen for caring about her body instead of talking about her baby, as if the two are mutually exclusive). There&amp;#039;s also an unfortunate de-sexing of new moms. Even though sex is what made us moms, we are often presented as unwashed, yoga-pant wearing blobs covered in spit-up splatters. Related: What Kind of Mother Do You Want to Be? This brings us to yesterday&amp;#039;s misquote heard &amp;#039;round the Twittersphere, attributed to Miley Cyrus in her forthcoming LOVE cover story: &amp;quot;As Beyonce grows in motherhood and all the crap it does to your body, it will create a vacuum for fresh young faces to rise up and no one else can properly fill that void right now.&amp;quot; Both LOVE and Cyrus have confrimed the quotes are fake, but the words are still out there and the emotions from them palpable.  Related: Did Miley Cyrus Just Mommy-Shame Beyonc\u00E9? Apparently Not Obviously the statement is preposterous. Beyonc\u00E9 is as fly as ever. But it&amp;#039;s important that she said what she said about getting her body back and finding her sexuality again after giving birth. Having a baby is a profoundly life-altering experience, and there are too few people telling women it&amp;#039;s ok to want to get back to your sexual self. That doesn&amp;#039;t mean you have to look like Beyonc\u00E9 or Gisele\u2014you probably didn&amp;#039;t look like them before you gave birth either. But it does mean that it&amp;#039;s great to be proud of your postpartum shape. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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