Arizona, July 28: Like any new mother, he was keen to lose the babyweight but few would be quite so worried about getting a six-pack.
Thomas Beatie, the world’s first pregnant man or male mother has unveiled his new toned figure, just 12 months after giving birth to his third child in three years.
Mr Beatie, who now lives in Arizona with his wife Nancy and their three children, garnered international attention around the world when he became the first legally transgender man to become pregnant.
Now he and his wife have completed the family they always dreamed of, and the 37-year-old appears to have started taking testosterone again, helping him develop his muscular physique.
Despite his three pregnancies, he showed off a flat stomach with the beginnings of a six-pack although he couldn’t quite hide the stretchmarks. The couple moved to Arizona from their home in Bend, Oregon, after their house was repossessed last year. Mr Beatie was born as a woman, Tracy Lagondino, in Hawaii in 1974, but says he always felt like he wanted to be a man.
When he was in his twenties began having testosterone injections, giving him facial hair, a lower voice and altering his sexual organs.
In 2002 he had a mastectomy and legally became a man but he chose to keep his vagina, uterus and other female sexual organs so the couple could have children, as his wife had had a hysterectomy.
-Agencies