Celeb-favoured waist-cinching after birth ‘may be harmful’
A waist-cinching belt worn by celebrities after giving birth could be harmful, according to UK midwives.
The cinched waist look is thought to be achieved by way of an elasticised belt – or abdominal binder.
But Britain’s Royal College of Midwives said the binders may damage women’s health.
An RCM midwife said: “It is not safe to wear them just after giving birth. I wouldn’t recommend it from a medical perspective.”
The £85 ($137) Cinch went on sale in Britain last month. It was claimed such devices trimmed the waists of A-list celebrity mothers, including Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani and Minnie Driver.
But the nurse said: “A midwife needs to check that a woman’s uterus is going down after birth. Wearing that could hide the fact that a woman’s uterus isn’t going down, and conceal internal bleeding.”
A spokesman for the association, meanwhile, said that there is no official policy on the binders.
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