'I have to put up my filters because I don't have the emotional capacity to let that in,' America Ferrera says of being pregnant during a global pandemic
RELATED VIDEO: America Ferrera Reveals What She Won't Name Her Baby — and If Those"The most exquisite little creature graced us with her presence on May 4, 2020. Please meet the newest member of our family, Lucia Marisol Williams. She came just in time for Mother's Day. Everyone is healthy and happy!" Williams, 39,Now, as a mother of two, Ferrera says her outlook on body image has shifted — for the better.
"I've struggled with body image my whole life," she says. "I feel like I've gotten to such a place, like f--- that s---. What a waste of time and energy. F--- the patriarchyand also, f--- you even more when I just brought life into the world and then my body is supposed to look like something. F--- all of it."
Ferrera adds, "I was so in that place, that like post-baby [place], I didn't really struggle with it because I was just like, 'I f---ing dare someone to tell me to lose weight!' "
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