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ELI5: What happens when a woman with rock hard abs gets pregnant? And what happens after the pregnancy? Does she have to work all that muscle back?
gpt
It's called diastasis.  Our ab muscles are surrounded above and below by a white thick layer that goes around everything in your abdomen called the fascia. The abs separate in the middle, but they are still connected to the fascia.