November 13, 2009

Are Moms Sexy? Like, For Real?

I always come back to this question.

After being with my husband for nearly a decade and surviving the birth of two kids, major postpartum depression, and a plethora of rough times, it never ceases to boggle my mind when James gawks at me like a horny teenager as I’m changing into my pajamas. Or when my guy friends tell me I look smokin’ hot when I show up to a dance venue wearing just a touch of mascara and a tight pair of jeans.

Like, holy cow.  Do they have ANY CLUE what my body and mind have been through? I’ve been blown up like a fat tick twice and hollered like an Amazon Jungle cat while watching a gooey, squished alien emerge from my loins like a scene out of the worst horror flick imaginable.  I’ve got stretch marks on my breasts and hips and thighs and a few (I know, I know, invisible ones) on my belly.  Three different kinds of prolapse. Scars on my va-jay-jay from ripping in half, surgery, and ruptured glands.  Part of where I tore the first time was so severed it never even healed back.  And my “happiness” is contingent upon a hefty dose of anti-crazy pills.

And yet, somehow, they still find me sexy.  And somehow, despite all I’ve been through- or maybe because I’ve been through it- I feel five times sexier now than I did before I had kids. Not always, but frequently.

Amazing how that works.

So I’m curious, what do you think?  Ladies?  Gentlemen?  Don’t be shy!  Are moms sexy, like, for real?

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