YAS! Pro Athlete Stephanie Bruce Proudly Shows Her Diastasis Recti On Insta

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For all you post partum moms who have reached out about my experience with DR, this one’s for you. This is my stomach 3 years post partum. This is as good as it will get for me. I still have a 1 finger gap, extra saggy skin, and stretch marks. But my core is also the strongest it’s ever been, and the proof has been no major injuries in my hips, glute, back, and core since giving birth. This is how I look, but not how I feel. When I’m training hard, lifting, sprinting at the end of races I feel the strongest core possible. It doesn’t look the same as the women I race against who haven’t given birth, but who gives a crap. It took me a while to be comfortable in my own skin, but every time I run in a sports bra, wear crop top shirts I grow a little more confident in my post partum body. I wrote about my experience with Diastasis Recti and the steps I took to get from peeing my pants constantly, pain in my pelvis to years later crushing it. Read on, hope it helps, link in my bio🙌🏻 #diastasisrecti #journeywithsteph

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After three years of dealing with diastasis recti, a condition that splits your ab muscles down the middle (mainly after giving birth), pro runner Stephanie Bruce has stopped caring to hide it. 

While the athlete has been doing extra strengthening to push her abs back together (her core is strong AF now!), she will always have the gap. Stephanie made a courageous move and shared her tummy on social media with an inspirational message. 

“For all you postpartum moms who have reached out about my experience with [diastasis recti], this one’s for you,” she wrote. “This is my stomach three years postpartum. This is as good as it will get for me. I still have a 1 finger gap, extra saggy skin, and stretch marks. But my core is also the strongest it’s ever been, and the proof has been no major injuries in my hips, glute, back, and core since giving birth.”

Yes, Steph! 


Stephanie Bruce