The Mothers Looksmaxxing Their Babies

Leisa Mari Bekkers lives in New South Wales, where she is raising two teenagers she describes as her life’s work. Aged 14 and 19, neither has ever taken a pharmaceutical drug. “Not even an aspirin,” she told me. During both pregnancies, she avoided ultrasounds. Her aim was to keep them as untouched as possible — to give them, in her view, the best chance of growing up beautiful and strong.