It’s hard to imagine 90′s supermodel Niki Taylor weighing 197 pounds, but like many other moms that’s where she found herself after the birth of her third child. Niki has 15 year-old twin boys and now a 13 m0nth old baby girl.

Any mom would struggle to lose baby weight with teenage junk food in the house, but Niki says sticking to her own “mom food”  was the key to getting back to her fighting weight.

But Taylor, 35, stuck to her own mom food — a healthy diet of oatmeal sprinkled with berries, and chicken broiled in coconut oil — that has helped the model lose 59 lbs. — going from 197 lbs. to 138 lbs. — since giving birth  to her daughter Ciel, now 13 months. (Dad is race car driver Burney Lamar, 29)

“If I have dessert, I spend a half an hour more exercising,” says the 5’11″ model, who spends 30 minutes a day doing cardio — walking, jogging or on a gym treadmill. “So I would rather just have the bite than work out an hour!”

As for weight training? Well, that’s just a part of motherhood. “I’m lifting a 25-lb. baby, her stroller and a diaper bag,” she says. “That’s a workout.”

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For the past few years Tori Spelling’s life has been an open book for all to see. In the June/July issue of Cookie magazine, she answers the question that everyone wants to know;  “How much does it suck to have to lose baby weight in Hollywood?”

Her response? “Well, after I’d given birth to Stella, some woman at the market grabbed my belly and asked when I was due. When she had the flab in her hand, she realized her mistake.”

Tori adds, “And the first time I went out after I had Liam, the paparazzi were around and I remember trying to hold my stomach in, even though my muscles were shot to hell, because it’s not like they want a story, ‘Look at the happy couple, they just had a baby’ they want, ‘Do you see her stomach? We thought she already had the baby.’ But I always say the weeklies build you up to tear you down. It’s a funny cycle. The week before they were asking, “Is she too thin?” they showed a picture of me in a bikini on the beach saying I looked great.”

Here is a testament to how sucky it must be to have your body judged as part of your job. Jessica Alba came clean about the stress she was under to get back into shape ASAP after Honor was born in her recent interview with Elle magazine.

Grueling work outs…girdles 24/7…yeah..it’s so glamorous being a celebrity.

On snapping back into shape so quickly after giving birth: “I did it for the Campari job. [The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.”

Her secret to looking slim after giving birth: “I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist – any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, “I slept in it.” I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a six-pack – that’s just not my body at all.”

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Let me preface by saying that I HEART Christina Aguilera from waay back, and I never like to poke fun at new mothers for not getting back to a size 0 in three weeks.

I am just saying…..

maybe…..just maybe…it isn’t time to pull out the Lady Marmalade outfits just yet Xtina.