“Who Doesn’t Want to Be This Hot Mom?”: Celebrity Mom Profiles and Mothers’ Accounts of Their Postpartum Bodies

In this article, we explore mothers’ responses to celebrity mom body (CMB) profiles in popular magazines. Drawing from objectification theory, we frame CMB images as one component of the ubiquitous sexualization of girls’ and women’s bodies, and ask how these images influence mothers’ views of their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brittany M. Williams, Karen Christopher, Jennifer Sinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-08-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017720562