Inside Naya Rivera's post-baby "extreme makeover" plan

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Sara McGinnis

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Naya Rivera is comfortable with showing off her growing baby bump to the world, but she knows that in doing so the feedback she receives will be peppered with hate.

"There’s a lot, physically, that changes with your body when you’re pregnant, and I guess no one could’ve warned me about that stuff," the pregnant actress explained while speaking with Yahoo! Style. "But being in the public eye when you’re pregnant is really, really hard, and people can be so mean on the Internet, it’s insane."

The wife of actor Ryan Dorsey went on to share, "Pregnancy is such a beautiful time to me, and I feel like you should embrace your body in whatever stage it’s in. So it’s kind of hard being an actress, being a celebrity, and having people scrutinize how you physically look, and just saying the craziest things… I just keep in mind that I’ve never met these people, and they’ve never had the privilege of meeting me, so they’re, like, strangers as far as I’m concerned. So you can’t really take what they say to heart."

The former Glee star says she "definitely" has a plan in place to revamp her look after giving birth.

"I have an entire post-baby plan that I wrote out and continue to look at every day," Naya Rivera revealed. "I definitely need a new hair style—can’t wait for that, my hair has just been so blah—and the workout regimen is gonna be pretty serious."

"I love beauty products and getting my hair and makeup done—all that stuff, I incorporate into my daily life when I’m not pregnant. But while I’ve been pregnant, I really just gave up! I was like, 'There’s no time and no point right now… there’s just no point!' So I’m just gonna hit restart after, and I think that’ll be fun. It’ll be like an extreme makeover."

A peek at the mom-to-be showing off her curves during her recent pregnancy photo shoot:

Unlike Naya I had absolutely no plan to change my style once my babies were born, but yet each time ended up doing just that.

After my first son was born I got a perm with the idea in mind curly hair would be more wash-and-go of a style, and after my second son arrived I had quite a few inches of length cut off. Both times I thought I was seeking the change simply so the time and effort required by the look would lessen, but in hindsight I think perhaps there was more going on.

I'm not a person who's big on style, but looking back over the years I can correlate the times I sought a new look to  life-changing events. There was also a chop shortly after our wedding, and another after a particularly rough time. It's not all bad things (I currently have quite short hair that I think came about as a by-product of pushing myself to try new things and live a little more "out there"), but it's pretty obvious that in my life my hair changes are a dead give away of change afoot.

How has your style changed over the years? Can you correlate the evolution to life events, or not so much? Join the conversation by sharing a comment below.

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