5 Days After Giving Birth, Katy Perry Posts a V. Relatable VMAs Picture

It was pretty obvious that Katy Perry wasn’t going to make it to the MTV Video Music Awards last night - apart from the fact that the awards - basically the first large scale awards ceremony since lockdown began in March was v. different this year (face masks, social distancing and outdoor performances without an audience), Perry gave birth to her daughter Daisy Dive, her first child with Orlando Bloom just five days ago. Which, for the uninitiated, is very much still the maternity pads, sore stitches, wtf is going on with my nipples stage of postpartum life. So even for a superstar of Katy Perry proportions, turning up to a red carpet event would have been a stretch (you can’t really a breast bump in those teeny tiny red carpet clutch bags for one thing).

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She still managed to make her presence known however, with an Insta story pic of her in the bathroom mirror at home in a nursing bra with pump attachments, big pants, and about as much hair and makeup as you’d expect the parents of a five-day old to be wearing (read: none). She’s captioned the picture 'Hair and makeup by: @exhaustion,’ 'Underwear by @Fridamom’ and 'Bra by @medela_us.’ I almost don’t want to reference the fact that you can see Perry’s postpartum tummy, which is noteworthy insofar as she looks exactly like every other woman who’s just given birth. But it's still a huge rarity to see such post-birth honesty from A-listers. so there you go.

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Obviously we can file this picture under ‘highly relatable,’but the fact that there’s no dirty nappy or a weeping, exhausted Orlando Bloom on the floor behind her suggests that they’re doing ok with this new-parent malarkey.