Olympians Who are also Mothers

“Let me be very clear. If I were ever to win an Olympic medal 17 months after giving birth and 18 months after going on bed rest and gaining 50 pounds, I would want the whole world to know it.

Dana Vollmer, 28, has done just that.

The American swimmer grew a human, had all of her internal organs shifted temporarily to make room for that human, gave birth to a human, got all her internal organs back where they belong, gained and lost 50 pounds, raised an infant, and still trained hard enough to make it to the Olympics.

I would have that story tattooed on my arm, so everyone could see it on my glistening bicep when the announcers weren’t talking about it. The story of her motherhood and comeback add to her awesomeness; they don’t subtract from it.

Yet because we are in the era of public complaining, there are those who must object to the coverage of Vollmer’s feats.”

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