Move aside dads — MUM BODS are now a thing

“Mum bod” — it’s a phrase most women usually want to avoid after childbirth, feeling the pressure to snap back to how they looked before pregnancy.

Now a new crusade of women is sweeping the internet, fighting against the ‘bounce back’ stigma.

They’re tired of feeling down on themselves, now embracing and celebrating their bodies for creating and carrying life — stretch marks, cellulite, bellies and all.

Bethanie Garcia, a young US mother of five, boasts an online following of over 205,000 people.

Bethanie shares snaps of herself in swimwear and underwear, chatting all things self love, sex life and motherhood.

She’s also shedding light on all the negative comments she receives, in an effort to fight the unrealistic expectations of mothers.

“It’s crazy to me how many men (or just humans in general) are out there actively campaigning for women to hate their bodies,” she wrote on her Instagram page.

“I share with the hope that more human beings start unlearning all the things we’ve been taught by society”

Speaking to The New York Post, she said that the journey to love her body was a hard one.

“In the beginning, I forced myself to see myself as sexy,” she said.

“I’ll look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, you’re hot,’ even though I weigh more than I did in the past or my body sags differently.”

She’s one of the growing number of women joining the body positive movement for mummas to love their bodies..

Sarah Laundry has more than 2.1 million followers sharing her self love journey.

Sarah openly talks about her 50kg weight gain and encourages mothers to embrace their post-partum bodies, saying she doesn’t feel like losing out on life to lose a few kilos.

Other mothers like Deanna Wolfe are reminding new mums that the top priority after birth should be recovery rather than weight loss.

“Did you know it takes 6 weeks for your uterus alone to shrink back to its original size without a baby in it? And that recovery is #1, not restricting calories.” Deanna shared to her audience.

So move over dad bods the mommas are taking over!