Former ‘Bachelorette’ Trista Sutter reveals it wasn’t easy to lose the pregnancy weight after giving birth to her second child but she proudly shows off her rocking hot post-baby bikini body in the latest issue of Life&Style Magazine (via Popeater).

Trista added an extra 43 pounds to her normal 110-pound weight during her second pregnancy and has already managed to lose 45 pounds, feeling more confident about her body, even though she is still having a hard time getting her abs back in shape after the Caesarian section surgery.

“For obvious reasons, my abs were the one area that didn’t jump right back into position after I had Blakesley, so I’m still really focused on working on them and getting more toned,” Sutter says. “I had gestational diabetes with Max, so I really had to watch what I ate at the end of that pregnancy. With Blakesley, I didn’t have diabetes, so I went all out - I ate everything.”

“I’m definitely my own worst critic … I’m very critical of how I look and feel, mainly because I want to feel sexy for my husband,” Sutter says.“I feel confident - well, at least sort of confident - in a bikini… And I’m proud that I’ve gotten to the point where I can fit into my old clothes!”

Trista and her ‘Bachelorette’ husband Ryan Sutter tied the knot in a televised ceremony back in December, 2006, and they have two beautiful children together, 2-year-old Max and 6-month-old Blakesley.

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