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Kelly Cartwright is not trying to sugar-coat motherhood.

 

It’s really obnoxious when celebrity types have babies then only post pictures to Instagram of moments of bliss when everyone knows newborns turn you into a sleep-deprived half-person.

There’s the sleeping cherubic infant; the mother all “I woke up like this” with a full face of make-up; the obligatory bikini shot to show how she miraculously regained her pre-baby body but not the shots of her red, sweaty face as she grinds through another punishing workout in order to achieve that so necessary flat stomach.

New mum, Paralympian and Dancing with the Stars contestant Kelly Cartwright, 26, has no intention of curating just such an Instagram feed (she can’t help the six-pack, you guys. She’s an athlete).

Here’s the proof.

Just when you think you’re safe ???? ???? | they poop in your hand, on the floor and your clothes.

A photo posted by Kelly Cartwright (@kellycartwright) on

Cartwright had cancer as a teenager and had to have part of her right leg amputated.

She’s a world champion in long jump and the 100m sprint, and she won gold at the 2012 London Paralympics.

Cartwright with her new boy Max. Image via Instagram.

The athlete competed on Dancing with the Stars last year at five-and-a-half months pregnant. Her worst fear: “the leg falling off into the audience” was never realised.

Cartwright and her partner Ryan Miller welcomed their son Max two weeks ago.

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