Motherhood Changes Everything — Including Your Muscles
Angela Mosley and her son.
A local fitness influencer is breaking the silence around pelvic floor health
By Maggie Nerz Iribarne
“So many women come to me in desperation and hopelessness. They read my posts about prolapse and leaking and message me, ‘Is it possible for me to…?’ Giving them hope and encouragement really brings me joy, knowing that they just need the right method and tools.”
These are the words of Angela Mosley, a local mom and fitness influencer. Since she started publishing pelvic floor content in 2024, she has gained more than 300,000 followers collectively across social media.
Her success comes in the wake of her own struggle to recover from the birth of her children.
Growing up in a Pittsburgh home where health was not a priority, Angela did not exercise at all throughout childhood and young adulthood. She didn’t even consider it until after she joined the National Guard, a position with physical fitness requirements. Around the same time, Angela had a baby, which inspired her to begin working out at the YMCA.
“I didn’t realize all the workouts I was doing would make such an impact, but they did. I maxed out my run, pushups, and situps. Not only was I impressed, but so were other soldiers. People started coming to me for guidance,” she said.
After six years in the military, Angela became a corporate wellness coordinator, health coach, and group fitness instructor at the YMCA.
But it was after the birth of her fourth child, suffering from serious pelvic floor problems, that her true passion took shape.
“Everyone praised me for ‘bouncing back,’ but inside I was dying. Walking made my prolapse worse. Any jumping I’d leak. Sex was painful. I suffered from sacroiliac joint pain and heaviness with my period. Teaching group fitness, I’d pee past my knees every class despite limiting liquids, wearing a pad, or going to the bathroom five times before class. It was awful,” she said.
This hardship opened her eyes to the scope of the problem and the seeming limits in treating it, inspiring her to pursue self-education and certification in pelvic floor physical therapy methods from Core Life Solutions’ founder, Sarah Duvall. This set the foundation for her own fitness brand that would eventually be called Modern Fit Moms.
The 2020 pandemic seemed the right time to start. But, for the first few years, despite countless hours of work on a one-to-one coaching model, Angela struggled to get her new pelvic-floor-focused fitness business off the ground.
In January 2024, she went to her doctor to consult about a procedure to fix her prolapse, since she still had some symptoms. At that appointment, she was informed that her consistent exercise and other pelvic floor techniques had improved the prolapse enough to make the procedure unnecessary. Angela went home and posted her experience online. The post went viral, and social media followers and interest in Modern Fit Moms exploded. She knew she needed to move away from the more expensive one-to-one model to her current, more affordable and accessible online video model. The rest, as they say, is history.
“My program addresses the whole body, not just the pelvic floor. From your jaw down to your feet. It’s about getting all the muscles strong to support your pelvic floor, not just isolated Kegels,” Angela said.
Clients access programs through the website or app. The follow-along workouts are focused on specific goals, highlighting Angela’s knowledge of biomechanics with an emphasis on breathing, form, corrective exercise, and building lean muscle.
The program attracts women from postpartum through menopause, which are the most vulnerable times for pelvic floor issues. During childbirth, the muscles can be severely damaged. During menopause, the loss of estrogen reduces blood flow to the area, weakening supportive tissue. Many women have never received the right advice or methods to restore their pelvic floor function.
Modern Fit Moms delivers, and it has the client stories to prove it.
“Since having kids, I have worn panty liners… but after participating in Angela’s workouts, I noticed significantly less leaking, to the point where I can confidently not wear the liners anymore,” one client said.
Now Angela’s days begin at 4:30 a.m. and are full of homeschooling, self-education, spiritual development, exercising, meal prep, and working on Modern Fit Moms. Angela has faith that if she prioritizes and plans, she can do it all. She can meet her goals and live out her dreams, not just for herself and her family, but also for the growing number of women gaining hope through Modern Fit Moms.