Mums happy to be run off their feet

Desperate Housewives star, Marcia Cross, gained 65 pounds when she was pregnant with her twin daughters, Savannah and Eden, and she was due back on the set within five months — so Cross worked out three to five days a week at LA’s Burn 60 gym.

The workout combined interval training — alternating jogging and walking — with strength and resistance training. The actress was in shape on time. It’s not just celebrity mums who run to lose baby weight.

Cork mum, Sinead Kenneally, discovered that running helped her tone up and lose weight, and provided much-needed ‘me time’.