When I do not work out,
it is noticeable to those around me.
My husband will be like,
you need to go. You need to just pop over
and like go run or something.
Hi, I'm Carrie Underwood and this is my Women's Health
body scan.
My favorite thing about my body is the strength that
it possesses.
I've got 2 little super active boys and I mainly
need to be able to keep up with
them. So I feel like I work really hard at
keeping myself healthy and able to hang out with them,
keep up with them, and hopefully be around for them
as long as I can.
I feel like myself. Like so many other,
you know, women, my midsection has never been exactly where
I wanted to be.
I I keep working. I don't let that,
you know, stop me from
doing all the ABS and and things like that.
And I feel like when I was younger,
I was like, oh, it's so hard,
you know, I must be stress hormones,
cortisol and all that stuff.
But as I've gotten older,
and especially after I've had two children,
I'm like, this was like,
this is my core, this is my my powerhouse.
This part of my body housed two incredible,
amazing boys and I I feel like it's allowed me
to
give myself some grace and and focus more on how
strong it is,
'cause I know I have a strong core and focus
less on what I think it should look like.
I'm definitely a very motivated person.
I feel like I've always been really good at,
you know, pushing myself and making my myself and my
body and does everything that I do.
I'm in control of it,
you know. But then when you get pregnant,
you, your body does things that you cannot control in
any way,
shape or form. It was like a mental thing.
It took me a minute,
especially the first time around to accept,
you know, something growing inside of me.
And I was supposed to let loose and and and
let go of the control and just let nature take
its course with just such a beautiful thing.
But I feel like it took,
it took me a minute,
you know, more mentally than physically.
I kept working out. I worked out a lot more
throughout my first pregnancy.
Afterwards, I honestly kind of looked at it as I'm
going to have fun
just working my way back into
being being strong and feeling like myself again.
And definitely had to mentally cut myself a break here
and there because you can't just you know have a
kid and then go do everything that you were doing
before. So it was it was working back into it.
But I kind of enjoyed looking at it as a
challenge that I was up for and
you know I I felt like it you know it
it comes it it you you get back to feeling
strong and like yourself again.
Head brace as a as a teenager I definitely did
not have great teeth growing up.
Then they were straight. And then when you don't worry
a retainer,
like so many people don't,
things start shifting. I eventually,
because I had like one tooth that was driving me
crazy,
I went to an orthodontist and I was like,
all right, we got to make this quick.
It's such a little thing,
but it's only going to get worse.
So let's fix it now.
And he did in like 3 months.
So they were like there was a period of my
life that nobody knew.
I had braces on the bottom for like 3 months
and I was doing red carpets and stuff like that,
just trying not to smile too big.
It was probably like 7 years ago,
but nobody knew it
through last year because I stopped fixing my hair.
I learned it has a lot more like good curl
in it than I thought it did.
So that's been a positive,
kind of drastic change that I've done because then I
can just let it like air dry.
And I feel like that's so much better for it
than me trying to like force it into submission with
hot tools and things like that.
I cut my hair off like pretty short.
Maybe like four years ago,
Five years ago. And that was fun.
Sometimes I see those pictures and I kind of miss
my short hair,
but I feel like I worked really hard to get
it long again.
So it's going to be a while before I cut
it off.
I worked too hard.
I feel like it's like almost like some sort of
muscle training that you do when you wear high heels.
I feel like I've been out of it for so
long.
So when I put heels on to do like a
a photo shoot or something,
I just have them on for a couple hours.
I'm like, Oh my gosh,
my feet. But then in 2019,
you know, we we were on this massive tour and
I was wearing these huge heels
for, you know, a couple of hours on stage every
single night.
So I feel like I'm a little out of practice.
But there's a lot about wearing heels that's actually like
good for your muscles.
I feel like my calves are always like
they they end up getting a good workout.
When I wear heels I try to get comfortable ones
but do the best I can and be think of
think of it as a workout instead of torture for
my feet.
I kind of stick to oils.
I feel like I I spent a lot of time
in my 20s like using creams a lot and I
feel like they would just kind of sit on my
sit on my face and not absorb into my skin.
And I feel like my my 30s have been all
about just using different,
different oils and stuff for my face.
And it feels a little counterintuitive.
I remember when I first started using them,
I'm like, but I don't want my face to be
oily.
And then it took a minute for me to be
like,
oh, this doesn't make my face oily.
It just really hydrates my skin.
I really enjoy seeing muscle definition in my arms when
I feel like I've got,
you know, some guns going on.
I feel like that's something that you put on like
a tank top and you're like,
yeah, they're they're popping. They're like the vanity muscles,
right? You just feel like you.
You can see everybody can see them.
I don't feel like I do too many too many
crazy things,
honestly. Keeping things simple with things like bicep curls or
hammer curls or shoulder presses.
Triceps like kickbacks, things like that,
that kind of target, you know,
the the muscles that you can see just but keeping
it simple so they they feel nice to work out.
But it is important to like work out your whole
body.
When you go into the gym,
if you already feel good
about yourself, you you feel cute,
you feel put together, you're looking in the mirror.
At least I am the whole time I'm working out
because I want to see my form,
I want to see how
everything's moving. If I feel like I've I I look
good already.
It just gives me that much more motivation when I'm
in the gym.
And that's what we are thinking about when we
create our Kalia pieces that are specifically for the gym
and for working out.
Everybody has the things that they show off and everybody
has the things that they might want to shape a
little more or have a little more support.
Everybody is different. It's just important they feel like to
already make you feel good.
If if we've done that,
we've won. And that's only going to make you that
much more motivated When you step into the gym or
go for a walk or take your kids to school
or whatever it is that you're doing,
we want to be a part of it.
Thanks for watching Body Scan and check out
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