"Go Kendra Wilkinson! Go Kendra Wilkinson! You're at your plastic surgeon's now!"

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Kendra Baskett is on the cover of OK! magazine in a bikini, six weeks or so after giving birth, talking about how she's lost all her baby weight, along with all her stretch marks and any other visible sign of pregnancy.

So, what's the name of her plastic surgeon?

Let's flip through the article...

Ahmmm... ahmmm.... ahmmm.... mmmmm....



Oh, wait, she says she's done it with diet and exercise.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Ok, before I tear her up, let me say a few nice things about her and her husband.

As bimbos who formerly porked old dudes to get them to pay their bills go, I don't mind Kendra so much. From what I've seen of her show, she's fairly harmless - nowhere near as sassy or spoiled or shitty as a lot of her fellow bimbos/high-class escorts - and her husband seems like a nice guy. Very laid back, nice guy. I felt bad for him when he fumbled that onside kick at the Super Bowl. Seriously. And I felt a little bad for Kendra by proxy.

But I don't feel bad tearing her up for this “baby diet” bullshit.

This is a steaming pile of celebrity crap that's foisted on the gullible public by body-conscious celebs who want to prove their main calling card - their bodies - are still hard enough to make them marketable, even after childbirth. When these women get preggo, they and their agents freak out because so much of their career is based upon their looks, so they feel the urgent need to get out there and get on a cover in a bikini as soon as the plastic surgery scars heal post-partum.

And that IS how they get that way.

Sorry, but it's very rare that a woman, within six weeks of childbirth, goes back to her previous figure. I'm not saying it's rare six months after childbirth, but even then, if she doesn't have some loose skin or stretch marks, she's lucky. Most women do. It is what it is.

And that's why it sucks when celebrities do this shit.

Because it makes real women feel bad about themselves.

It makes them feel that they're somehow lacking or unlucky or not working hard enough or whatever if they can't lose that baby weight, or can't get back to where they want to after the baby's born if they can't do it within a short time window, or at all.

But the thing is, regular women don't have thousands of disposable dollars to go out and hire plastic surgeons and personal trainers and personal chefs and do all the shit that these celeb women do.

And the only reason they do it so quickly and so publicly is because it's part of their job - they bank, almost solely in some cases, on their appearance. After all, it's not like you suddenly saw Tina Fey rushing onto the cover of “Us Weekly” in a bikini six weeks after she gave birth. Because Tina Fey gets a lot of work and became famous and remains famous for reasons other than how she looks in a bikini.

That's the case with most regular women. Unless they work in a strip club or like atmosphere, there's really no reason for them to skip out on precious time with their new infant in its first couple of months in order to bust ass at the gym. Besides, if your husband or boyfriend has his head on straight, he should find you the most beautiful woman in the world for having just blessed him with a child.

And Hank Baskett seems like the kind of guy that would be that way. He seems like he would find Kendra beautiful post-partum regardless of her workout regimen.

However, Kendra's agents and casting agents for shows and modeling agents and everyone else in the business wouldn't. That's why she was probably in the gym and at the surgeon's much earlier than she should've been, which is sad.

What is it going to take to change? Will it ever change?

It could.

But it's going to take a really famous female celebrity, and one who has physical, emotional and mental beauty, one who is very admired by a large number of people, to make a stand.

It's going to take that woman posing on a cover six weeks after giving birth, not in a bikini, but with her child, looking like a normal Mom, one who considers herself blessed for all the right reasons, not one who looks like she's been pressured for all the wrong ones.

It's going to take that woman to tell the industry and its expectations and its perverse, unrealistic expectation and image of beauty to go fuck itself, and to tell and show real women that they don't need to feel insecure, that giving birth is about the baby and not an insane race to get back into a bikini, and that if they and the baby are healthy and happy two or three or six or whatever months in, well then, at that point, who cares about the other crap?

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Sean Leary's recent and current projects include the alt-rock "Spinal Tap" comedy film "Your Favorite Band" (www.yourfavoritebandthefilm.com), the award-winning short story collection "Every Number Is Lucky To Someone" (available in bookstores nationwide and on Amazon.com) and his website: http://www.getyourgoodnews.com/.

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