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Holly Kennedy Says Motherhood Can Make You Stronger

• (Tue 15 Sep 2009)
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YSN Professor Holly Kennedy was quoted in a story about tennis champion and mother Kim Clijsters and the apparent contradiction between motherhood and athleticism. The article quotes Kennedy saying, "Perhaps the amazement which the sporting world and Clijsters expressed at her victory will become passe in the future with her stunning example of maternal athleticism, where her body was perhaps even stronger after becoming a mother!"

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