Yvonne Wheeler breezes into a Starbucks and all heads turn.
She is the very picture of chic in her maroon mini-skirt, clinging sweater and big black belt cinched at her tiny waist. She wears high-heeled boots, dangly silver earrings and spiky black mascara on her impossibly long eyelashes. Her thick main of hair has blond highlights, her lips are frosted, her nails red.
You'd never guess that Wheeler, 41, is the mother of 5-year-old Madison.
"Just because you become a mom doesn't mean you have to become motherly," murmurs the divorced, size-2 marketing expert, sipping a gingerbread latte. "It's important for me to still feel sexy, to feel good, to know that I'm still a woman."
Wheeler is a yummy mummy. If you don't know that term, you might be familiar with the four-letter acronym that means essentially the same thing. The yummy mummy is a relatively recent phenomenon.
What exactly is a yummy mummy?
"It's a woman who, if you removed the babies and (stroller) from the picture, would not be identifiable as a mom, rather a sexy, glamorous woman," says London-based Polly Williams, author of "The Yummy Mummy", a novel that sends up the whole yummy mummy mystique. "A yummy mummy is what happens when hipster 30-somethings breed." As a 21st-century mother, you have to be ripped and buff and hot...
...taken at the Palladium Shopping Mall, by the movie center at the food court...
Istanbul, Turkey...
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