Zooey Deschanel is one celeb who won't be worrying about her "post-baby body".

by Mamamia Team May 6, 2015

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Whenever there’s a birth in celebrity world, you can bet your Nutribullet a “post-baby body” reveal will follow just weeks later.

While we’d never knock anyone for keeping fit and feeling good about themselves, the pictures and situation is completely unrealistic for those of us who don’t have a cosmetic surgeon and team of personal trainers and chefs at our disposal.

So it’s refreshing to hear our favourite funny girl Zooey Deschanel, who is pregnant with her first child, join the ranks of Olivia Wilde and Drew Barrymore in being perfectly frank about her body post baby expectations.

“Haven’t we all seen those pictures of a sexy new mum in a bikini after one month? I will not be that person,” she told Cosmopolitan. (Post continues after gallery.)

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“I’ve always gone my own course and never been someone who had the need to be super skinny. I like a healthy look. I don’t buy into that skinny-is-better mentality,” she says.

“I just eat healthy and work out and don’t worry about my weight too much. Actresses aren’t models, and most of them never wanted to be.”

The 35-year-old actress shared the news of her pregnancy with producer Jacob Pechenik in January, before announcing their engagement a week later.

The New Girl star has also revealed the foods she’s missing most during her pregnancy, including soft cheeses, sushi, full cups of coffee and wine.

“You can’t eat so many things when you’re pregnant!”, she told the Jimmy Kimmel show.

And it’s not just body image advice we’ll be taking from Deschanel (although Zooey if you’re reading, we’d love some fringe tips too) – she also has some great words of wisdom for other areas of your life. (Post continues after gallery.)

Rebel Wilson

The actress said on Twitter; "I'm not trying to be hot. I'm just trying to be a good actress and entertain people." Image via @rebelwilson

Adele"The first thing to do is be happy with yourself and appreciate your body - only then should you try to change things about yourself." Image via Getty

Lady Gaga

After the media focused on her alleged weight gain in September 2012, Gaga hit back at critics by baring her body in photographs, sharing her struggles with an eating disorder, and inviting her fans to join her in a "body revolution"/ Image via @ladygaga

Ashley Judd

After the March 2012 frenzy around Judd's "puffy face" the actress fought back in 'The Daily Beast', calling the media out for making women's bodies "a source of speculation, ridicule, and invalidation, as if they belong to others". Image via @ashley_judd

Christina Aguilera

"I am always in support of someone who is willing and comfortable in their own skin enough to embrace it," the singer said in a recent interview. Image via @xtina

Lena Dunham

At the 2012 New Yorker Festival, the magazine's TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, asked Lena Dunham, producer, creator and star of the hit HBO show 'Girls' why Dunham is naked in so many scenes. Dunham responded; "I realised that what was missing in movies for me was the presence of bodies I understood." She said she plans to live until she is 105 and show her thighs every day. Image via @lenadunham

Alexa Chung

Chung responded to critics who suggested that her slight frame made her a bad role model for young women, saying: "Just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm, like, advocating it." Image via Twitter @alexa_chung

Stella BoonshoftThe NYU student started the amazing Body Love Blog, where she posted this picture of herself and wrote an open letter to those who feel entitled to shame others for the size or look of their bodies. Image via http://thebodyloveblog.tumblr.com"> Body Love Blog

Beth Ditto

This five-foot-tall, 200-pound singer spoke openly about her weight to 'The Advocate' saying, "I feel sorry ... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself." Image via @marybethditto

“I’m very focused. I work all the time, but I do what I love and I don’t care what people think of it,” she told Cosmopolitan.

“You don’t become successful by trying to be ‘a success’. You become successful by doing things that give you pleasure. That’s a hallmark of mine.”

And best of all, Deschanel is a firm believer that being a feminist doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate the lighter side of things too.

“I’m all for people asking actresses more intelligent questions. Just because you’re wearing a nice dress doesn’t mean you don’t have any ideas,” she said.

“It’s a shame to reduce smart, talented women to clothes models. But you can be a feminist and femme. I don’t see how those things contradict each other.”

As she summed up perfectly in a previous interview with Glamour, “I’m just being myself. I want to be to be a f-ing feminist and wear a f-ing Peter Pan collar. So f-ing what?”