Hollywood star actress Gwyneth Paltrow has criticised instragram-fuelled unrealistic beauty standards for new mothers. Paltrow in a podcast recounted her near-death experience giving birth to her daughter, Apple.

The “Goop” founder opened up about the two caesarean births she had; one for Apple, 17, and one for son Moses, 15 and how they left her with a “big scar.”

“My daughter was an emergency, it was crazy, we almost died. It was like not good,” she shared on the “Armchair Expert” podcast on Monday 26th October.

“Anyway, there’s a big scar across your body, and you’re like, ‘Oh wow, that didn’t used to be there.’ And it’s not that it’s bad or you want to judge it, but you’re just like, ‘Oh, my God.’”

Paltrow, 49, criticised social media for placing unrealistic expectations on women to bounce back immediately after giving birth.

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“Thank God there wasn’t Instagram when I had babies because now it’s like if I see someone, ‘Oh, I just gave birth two weeks ago and I have a completely washboard stomach,’ and I’m like, ‘Wow that’s not what I looked like.”

“And like great, more power to the lady with the washboard abs, but that is totally the exception. Then now we’re being fed all of these other images of what we’re supposed to look like all the time.”

Gwyneth Paltrow shares her two children with ex-husband Chris Martin.

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