Speaking on Sprouse’s new Wildmen podcast, the 32-year-old model said: “That scar came back where I was like, oh the number on the scale really going up super quick and my arms are getting bigger.
“You don’t have a bump yet, but your stomach is bigger, and your pants don’t fit. I started spiralling.
“This is when it’s important that you have a good partner. Dylan was there reminding me every single time that we’re creating life.”
Palvin admitted her anxiety about her changing figure came after more than 20 years working as a model and feeling constantly scrutinised about her shape.
She said: “I started when I was 13. By 17, every single time I would go into the agency, they would tell me I have to lose weight. My hips were too big. I didn’t even have hips yet.
“I’ve been already scarred from constantly getting comments on my body. From my agency, from the industry in general, to lose weight. Lose weight, be skinnier, do this, do that. I was trying to do all that. I was dieting. I was eating unhealthy. I was going crazy ‘cause I would think like, ‘Oh my god, I’m in such a good shape.’”
Palvin received a boost when she landed a job with Victoria’s Secret, but her feelings quickly changed.
She said: “I’m like, ‘F*** yeah, it’s working out.’ And then they put the label on me that, ‘Oh, she’s the first plus-sized model.’”
The model insisted it isn’t hurtful to be considered a plus-sized model, but she didn’t view herself that way and had been “torturing” herself to fit into a conventional body type.
And when she did lose weight, she faced even more criticism.
She said: “I started posting pictures and then I started getting comments, ‘Oh my god, why is she so skinny?’
“I get it in a sense like, I’m a public figure, I’m a model, so I am working with my body, so that should give them the right to comment on my body.
“But I never felt the need to comment on anyone’s body, or if I had nothing nice to say, I didn’t say, I just kept it to myself.”