Alice Roberts Quotes

My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

I hate those unrealistic goals that people place on women. It's just not right. It took us nine months to have our babies and put on this weight. I gained 55 pounds with my daughter, so I get it. It's tough. But you can't just pop out a baby and expect to be the size you were before. It just doesn't work like that.

The changes that your body goes through during pregnancy are so radical, I've really tried to embrace and celebrate my new body, and hopefully I can encourage other women to do the same.

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

Labor is really going to hurt.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

I'm like every other girl; there are things I wish I could change about my body, but I try not to think about them too much.

I've been my normal self during pregnancy. I want other women who get nervous and anxious to experience the same comfort as me and to not feel awkward about their weight or baby bump.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

I have felt so insecure about my body at times. I've been on every end of the spectrum. I felt like I was too skinny and wished I could be muscular. I've felt like I was chubby and wanted to be skinny. I think everybody suffers from body image issues. I might exude confidence sometimes, but I'm pretty insecure.

There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

My body has always been one to fluctuate, and I've had to adapt my style accordingly.