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Fine Tuning

Carnie Wilson on Pregnancy, Weight Control and Postpartum

By Donna Smith

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It's been seven years since Carnie Wilson's public gastric bypass surgery. After losing over 150 pounds, the singer put some pounds back on, but for a good reason: pregnancy. On April 22, 2005, Wilson and her husband, guitarist Rob Bonfiglio, welcomed their daughter, Lola Sophia.

Pregnancy was a positive time in Wilson's life. "I loved it!" she says. "I had an incredible pregnancy. It was the first time I had stopped working. So I took the time to enjoy it and it was very happy and positive. We took a lot of drives and I spent a lot of time outside breathing fresh air and stretching and taking the time to just talk to Lola and listen to music and sing to her. It was great. I physically felt amazing. I didn't have one sick day. It was incredible."

Wilson did gain a lot of weight. "I gained 70 pounds," she says. "But it was an amazing, amazing time. I was healthy, I was eating healthy, but then I started eating too much bread. And I stopped exercising because I was having really bad pelvic pain. I probably would have kept off 20 of those pounds had I been exercising."

At one point, Wilson decided to just enjoy being pregnant, and not worry about what the world thought about her. "Because [if] my body's craving a piece of bread, I'm going to eat it," she says.

Wilson started baking and cooking for people – and took knitting classes. "I had regular knitting classes and I had a great time," she says. "I spent time with other pregnant women. I watched movies. I relaxed."

Time to Deliver
Wilson had a C-section delivery. "It was not easy," she says. "It was really, really difficult. It hurt. The epidural hurt, the incision hurt after. It was my fourth abdominal surgery in six years and it was the hardest one. I'm clean and sober, so I was really hesitant to take pain medication, so I was in extra pain after she was born. It was a big challenge for me to breastfeed her when I had pain from the incision there." Wilson breastfed for six months, and then did a combination of breastfeeding and formula.


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