The online world has a strange obsession with women’s baby bumps. This is something 33-year-old fitness professional Oxana Rumyantseva knows to be true. That’s because, with her current pregnancy (in which she’s 38 weeks along), people have been taking note of how muscular her belly looks — and not in a good way.
Commenters have written that Oxana looks too skinny to be pregnant, insisting that she’s “starving the baby” and “being selfish” for keeping up a fitness regimen.
Many
were also speculating that this was a fake baby bump and that Oxana
was actually planning to adopt. One person took it way too far and said,
“How would you feel if you fell flat on your stomach and miscarried?”
Though the online world can be a cruel place, Oxana is too badass to let it affect her. She told the New York Daily News that she knows she’s doing the best thing for her body and her baby:
“I need to be an active pregnant mom. I need to be healthy and strong and to have energy for my big family.”
Oxana poignantly added,
“There are so many haters who don’t understand fitness during pregnancy and call my pregnant abs ugly … A lot of people think that pregnancy is like disease and think you should spend it lying in bed, but that’s not healthy.”
Overall,
Oxana is not at all embarrassed by her level of activity during this
pregnancy. She works out four times a week, sometimes doing cardio and
sometimes weightlifting. You can see on her Insta profile
that she’s really into yoga as well. The closer she gets to the big
day, the more she incorporates low-impact exercises. She’s recently been
taking many long walks on the beach.
It’s
important to acknowledge that these activities are perfectly healthy
for all moms and moms-to-be, whether they’re fitness professionals or
not. Oxana’s doctors totally approve of her workouts, as does the
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which recommends
that women stick to aerobic and strength exercising most days of the week during their pregnancy.
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