Teddi Jo Mellencamp shows off her stretch marks and loose skin on Instagram

Teddi Jo Mellencamp showed off her bombshell bikini body on Instagram Saturday just six months after giving birth to her daughter Dove. 

The 39-year-old Real Housewife Of Beverly Hills welcomed her baby in February with her husband Edwin Arroyave.

While in this outfit she posted a video giving her followers a good look at the stretch marks on her legs and loose skin around her lower abdomen.

She dished in the clip that she gets so ‘many questions: “Well, how come you don’t have stretch marks?” Oh, I got these bad boys, I just embrace ‘em.’

Lifting the waistband of her bikini bottoms, she said: ‘Loose skin? Got it. I just wear my high-waisted ‘kinis and embrace what’s going on.’

The daughter of John Mellencamp and her husband also share a seven-year-old daughter called Slate and a five-year-old son called Cruz.

In the caption of her bikini picture she wrote: ‘It’s easy to lose ourselves in comparison- how we perceive our bodies vs others. We too often default to self-criticism and forget about the effort we’ve put in to get to here.’

She continued: ‘It’s taken years of work for me to feel comfy enough to head to a beach day and only think about the good times I’ll be having with the kiddos, rather than things not fully in my control. And even so, I can snap a pic feeling confident in my bikini but the reality is the stretch marks and loose skin are there.’

The reality star concluded: ‘I’ve learned to love and embrace them because they tell my story. So today, I am heading to the beach feeling good about myself because that’s the only way it should be. With lots of SPF and Truly’s of course!’

Teddi was spotted this Saturday enjoying a jog out and about in Los Angeles with her eldest daughter Slate as well as her dog.

Sweeping her blonde hair back into a ponytail, she wore a visor with her T-shirt and leggings and accessorized with a Gucci fanny pack.

She experienced fertility problems before successfully naturally conceiving Dove, who is currently recovering from neurosurgery.

The baby had the operation this summer in order to address her Lambdoid Craniosynostosis, a birth defect involving the skull.

Slate also had to have surgery recently after ‘a gust of wind came and the front door slammed on her finger and amputated the tip,’ Teddi shared on social media.

Cruz has lately been seen on his mother’s social media wearing a cast, having broken his thumb in a bicycle accident. 

This week she denounced trolls for ‘saying they wish I was dead’ and ‘wishing harmful things on my children’ in her Instagram comments.

She had had to disable comments on a previous Instagram post Wednesday plugging that night’s fiery episode of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.

In a video she posted to the social media site this Thursday she said that ‘coming after people you do not know and wishing they die has gotta stop.’

Wednesday’s episode included a furious row between Denise Richards and several other Housewives including Teddi during a restaurant dinner in Rome.

Brandi Glanville has alleged that she once had an affair with Denise, who has staunchly denied it and blew up at her co-stars at dinner because she felt she had been relentlessly ‘interrogated’ about the subject.

The group outing erupted into a fight where Denise called her co-stars ‘Mean Girls,’ which other women including Teddi strenuously objected to.

‘I’m glad that you shared how you were feeling, but I also think calling a group of people Mean Girls when you’re saying you’re not a judgmental person is very s***ty,’ Teddi told Denise at the dinner table.

Denise, a onetime Bond girl who was once married to Charlie Sheen, eventually fled the scene before a producer convinced her to return.

During the dinner Denise was also confronted with accusations that she had badmouthed her co-stars to Brandi.