Beauty After Motherhood: Celeb Before and Afters

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May 6th 2011 12:30PM

Filed under: Celeb Parents, Amazing Parents, Beauty & Style

Maybe it's the extra curves, maybe it's that new mama glow. Whatever it is, these celebs are pictured looking more radiant than ever after they became moms. Check out before and after photos of some of our favorite celebrity moms.

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Beauty After Motherhood

The actress and her partner Brad Pitt have three adopted children -- Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, -- and three biological children -- Shiloh, and baby twins Knox and Vivienne. "I know this is going to sound corny, but I first became happy with the way I look when I became a mother."

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Angelina Jolie
The actress and her partner Brad Pitt have three adopted children -- Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, -- and three biological children -- Shiloh, and baby twins Knox and Vivienne. "I know this is going to sound corny, but I first became happy with the way I look when I became a mother."

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Halle Berry

Berry and ex-boyfriend French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry have one child, Nahla Ariela, born on March 16, 2008. It was her role in the film, "Things We Lost in the Fire," that convinced her motherhood was for her. "I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother...It let me know that I must be a mother."

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Has two children, Apple and Moses. "It's like being the most in love you've ever been...but mixed with the worst heartbreak...because one day you're not going to be together anymore."

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Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts and her husband Danny Moder, have twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, and a boy Henry. She told Vanity Fair: "At this point I'm having so much fun with them. You only have so much energy and you want to put so much energy into each child. I wouldn't know how to have five kids. And they're a really good trio, these three."

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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez's twins with husband Marc Anthony, Emme and Maximillian, were born 2008 by C-section. According to People, "Jennifer described it [motherhood] as the most magical time of her life. She said, 'You know what? You can win an Oscar, you can win a Golden Globe, and as an ambitious artist you strive for those things. But when you have a kid, all of that is irrelevant."

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Gwen Stefani

She says that Zuma Nesta Rock and Kingston have brought her closer to husband Gavin Rossdale. Also, "I've gotten a little more feminine over the last few years. "As the years go by, you get more comfortable with looking more like a woman."

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Uma Thurman

She's says she's open to the possibility of having more children. "If it's meant to happen, it will. I love and adore being a mother." Thurman has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke, Maya, and Levon.

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Thandie Newton
The British actress, most recently starring in "W" as Condoleezza Rice, has two daughters, Ripley and Nico. "So many people thought I was a really cold person, but I was just painfully shy. But having a kid made me explore how I was going to guide another beautiful being in this world. I was released -- it doesn't happen for everyone, but it happened for me."

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