
New mother Chanel West Coast is “obsessed” along with her child lady, however postpartum life has include its challenges — notably in relation to physique picture.
“I gained numerous weight,” the Ridiculousness alum, 35, solely advised Us Weekly on the pink carpet on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, September 12, including that “physique adjustments” are one of many hardest points of motherhood. “My knees have been hurting so unhealthy, nevertheless it’s been a protracted battle to get my physique again.”
Chanel hinted that followers would get an in-depth take a look at her postpartum restoration on her upcoming “tremendous actuality” present, which doesn’t but have a launch date, earlier than confessing that she had liposuction after giving start final yr.
“I consider in being sincere about issues,” she stated. “I had liposuction, it was the scariest, hardest factor I’ve ever went by.”
In response to Chanel, the process was “even worse” than her emergency C-section. “It was rather a lot,” she advised Us. “And I used to be like, ‘Dang. … I want a few of these ladies who did this put it on the market extra,’ as a result of I didn’t understand how onerous it was. I’ll say although, that it was an incredible jumpstart to get [my body] again to the place I used to be.”
The MTV persona defined that she felt “somewhat bit” of strain to snap again after turning into a mother. “Clearly, I’m entering into doing an entire new present and I knew I used to be going to be again on digital camera so quickly,” she advised Us. “So I wished to look good, not only for myself, but additionally for my followers and for all of the individuals watching the present. I don’t need individuals to look at and be like, ‘Wait, this isn’t the Chanel I like.’ You understand what I imply?”

Chanel West Coast attends the 2022 MTV Film & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and broadcast on June 5, 2022. Amy Sussman/Getty Pictures
Chanel welcomed her daughter, Bowie Breeze, with boyfriend Dom Fenison in November 2022. She solely advised Us on the time that she was “overjoyed” by her “wholesome” child’s arrival, gushing, “She is ideal in each method to me and her daddy and we’re so grateful to have her in our lives.”
Practically one yr later, Chanel is “glad” along with her physique. “I’m nonetheless making an attempt to get somewhat skinnier to slot in a number of garments in my closet that I can’t get again into,” she advised Us on Tuesday. “We’ll see if I get there.”
Fenison, in the meantime, is supporting his associate each step of the way in which. “I imply, it’s one thing {that a} man may simply by no means perceive, having your physique change like that and all that,” he stated on the awards present. “So I really feel like she’s doing an incredible job.”
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi