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ELI5: what happens with a woman's abs while pregnant?

What if a woman has a rock hard sixpack? Will it stretch easier or harder?
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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.