[MrsDark]

Not everyone ends up with muscle separation that extreme. Known enough women with more than one kid and a naturally flat tummy to know that this woman was just particularly unlucky.

I wonder if she had really big babies? Also, how soon she started doing any type of exercises? My mom practically drilled it into my head that I'd better be doing crunches or something ASAP if I wanted any sort of abdominal tone. In her opinion there's some sort of time window after which you're probably gonna be stuck with separation or slackness that's just about impossible to do anything about. Not sure if mom's 100% correct on this (I think some of it has to do with genes, some with how big you get when pregnant, or how big how soon) but we're talking about a woman who did mini-crunches in her bed as soon as a day after each of us was born, and I have to admit, she had a fairly flat belly pretty soon after with each of us, and looked as good as ever by the time we were all small kids.

This operation and recovery sounds heinous. But she does look better. If I had hips that small to go with a belly like that I probably would have done it too. She's got some huge-ass boobs.