Coco Austin Shares a Surprising Secret to Her Incredible Post-Baby Weight Loss

 

Nicole “Coco” Austin gave birth to her first child, Chanel Nicole, in November, and has been looking amazingly fit in recent photos she has posted (and no, she didn’t use a surrogate).

So what’s her secret to looking so great only a few months after becoming a new mom? The answer is actually a lot simpler than most might think.

“I’m breastfeeding,” the reality star, 37, says on PEOPLE’s . “And I’ve noticed that breastfeeding in general burns so [many] more calories.”

Austin — who also opened up about how difficult and painful breastfeeding can be — adds that she didn’t really want to hit the gym in the first couple of months after Chanel was born. She wanted to spend as much time with her daughter as possible, so diet was key.
“Since the gym was nonexistent for me, I ate really, really [healthy],” says the former fitness model, who has been married to Chanel’s father, Ice-T, 58, since 2002.