And now they are parents to a little five year old blonde boy with down syndrome who is the light of their life. We'll rock it."Īt that moment, Kim had a vision of a little blonde boy with down syndrome running towards them.
Like If that happens it's what's meant to be, it'll be great. Her then-boyfriend’s response was "No big deal. In their discussions about having children, Kim told him that, because of her age, there was a high likelihood that their child would have chromosomal abnormalities. Her husband didn’t have any children of his own and as their relationship developed, Kim realized how important it was to him to become a dad. They dated long distance for a while and got married when she was 39. A Second Chance at LoveĪ few months after her divorce, Kim met a man she thought would be a summer fling but who she soon realized was the real deal. She found she ran a lot during that time. Through it all, she wondered if there was some accolade or accomplishment that would finally make her feel good enough, but she never found it.Īnd, when her youngest child was four, she and her husband decided to end their marriage, which caused her to be more obsessive about her heating and working out - not so much as a quest to be thin, but as a mode of stress relief. She had to exercise for multiple hours each day, every day. She had to watch what she ate very closely. In about a year, Kim lost about 50 pounds and dropped from a size 12 to a size 2, but maintaining that required a lot of work. But that came with anxiety around “what if I gain the weight back?” And, at the beginning, she did get a lot of validation and praise for how she looked. But she thinks most women are conditioned to think that if we just lost weight, we’d feel better. Kim said she was always a “straight size,” meaning she could always walk into any store and find something that fit.
She eventually got certified as a personal trainer and decided to turn it into her career - but it pretty quickly turned into an unhealthy obsession. She started running and winning road races and fitness became as much her identity as stay-at-home-mom. As she worked out, she started feeling stronger and more capable, and the hobby turned into an obsession. A friend turned her on to a personal trainer who would come to the house while the baby was napping. While she had a long history of dieting, she had never been athletic and had never worked out. She felt a lot of “not enough-ness” and she thought it was because she wasn’t happy with her body and she had to lose weight. So she found herself struggling with her identity. While she valued being at home with the kids and they could afford for her to be home, Kim had always valued her career. A New Hobby Leads to an Unhealthy ObsessionĪt 35, Kim Hagle had left her nursing career to be a stay at home mom to her three kids. Through movement and mindset coaching, she helps women heal their relationship with food and exercise while disconnecting their worth from their weight, so they can feel healthy, happy and confident in the body they have. Kim hosts The Joyful Movement Show podcast, where she inspires women to disconnect movement from weight loss and re-engage with movement as a form of self care. Kim Hagle is Certified Personal Trainer, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Body Image Coach and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness. At the age of 42, she overcame disordered eating and exercise habits, and obsessing over her weight and found joyful movement, body acceptance and food freedom. Kim’s journey to self acceptance began with the baby she had at 40: a beautiful boy with Down Syndrome who taught her to just be herself. But her hobby-turned-career turned into an unhealthy obsession with size and weight. She loved how she felt - and looked - and eventually got certified as a trainer herself. Kim Hagle was a stay at home mom to three young kids when she started working out with a personal trainer.
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