.allysonfelix hopes that by sharing her story, her words will empower black women to advocate for their health. “I would love to see a black woman who is fully educated...about all of these risks and is fully equipped to go to the doctor.”
that its new contracts for female athletes will include language that will protect their pay during pregnancy.
About a month after our conversation and following Felix’s appearance at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships as an, her brother and agent Wes Felix clarified the current status of Allyson’s negotiations with Nike. Felix, he said, had been in talks with Nike since her previous contract ended, but “at this point Allyson has decided that she wants to partner with a brand that she believes makes women the focus of their business,” Wes told SELF via email.
If you’ve never experienced it, just know that running for the first time after giving birth feels incredibly weird, like your pelvis is operating off its normal course and your brain is fighting your body and you physically can’t run as fast as you want to. Felix agrees. “I couldn't sprint. Not even ‘couldn't do it well.’ But just like, I couldn't do it. Something that was just so natural, and that I didn't even think about. Now it's like I didn't feel like myself.
The inner workings of matrescence, the emotional and mental transformation of becoming a mother, are less concrete, less easy to communicate even if you wanted to. Felix is probably figuring it out. But she’s starting to understand the ways in which she’s no longer who she used to be less than a year ago.Before becoming a mom, she told me, she wouldn’t have written it. “Years ago, there’s no way,” she says. “I just felt it was too much outside my comfort zone.
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