Molly Sims on losing her baby weight

Molly Sims has been gracing magazine covers for over two decades.

These days the supermodel and actress stays busy juggling her career and two kids (both are under the age of three.) Last year Sims released her first book, "The Everyday Supermodel," and opened up about her beauty secrets and the highs and lows of her successful career. Now she's getting ready to launch a new lifestyle digital series where she'll share more of the same inside scoop.

She talked with CBS News about what beauty means to her at this point in her life, and how she feels about photoshopping in 2016.

Tell us about how you started your partnership with CoolSculpting -- it's a fat reduction cosmetic procedure.

Yeah -- by accident. I wrote a book at the beginning of last year and we were talking about losing the baby weight and how much you should work out. I was trying to give women the idea of, "Okay, I'm not lying about this, this is what worked for me and this is what didn't." They [CoolSculpting] contacted me and asked if I really had a good experience [with getting back in shape after having a baby] and I said yes.

Do you believe all the "body after baby" stories we hear today?

You know, it depends. Some women have no problem; others do. Some women are honest about it; others are not. Someone will show you what they do and others won't. A lot of times things are Photoshopped and retouched, and this was just an opportunity for me to show how much I gained, lost, how I lost it and what I did in the end. It was more about not letting women believe it's all totally natural. I wanted to be honest.

Several celebrities such as Kerry Washington, Meghan Trainor and Serena Williams have recently spoken out against Photoshopping -- in particular, when it comes to images of themselves. You spent several years in front of the camera. What's your reaction when you hear about it?

I think these women feel like they don't look like themselves in these images, so they don't want to give a false sense of what they look like. They are not models, they are real people, and I love them for doing it. Things are always going to be Photoshopped, but taking three inches off of someones waist isn't right.

Did this ever happen to you?

There were a couple times when I told my agent, "This doesn't even look like me," and I told them that it can't run. I always want to look like myself.

Looking at the current social media landscape, do you think there is a different perception of what constitutes beauty today?

It's retouched, it's filtered, it's airbrushed, it's filtered again, and then retouched. Half the time it's not even real to the point where so many people stop doing it because it's all they end up doing. I think that's also why Snapchat has come on with such a vengeance in a great way, because with it you don't feel that pressure. With Instagram you are always trying to make a great picture and take a beautiful snapshot of the perfect life and it just doesn't exist.

What message do you think it's sending to the public?

It is sending a false sense of hope. Girls who will never be able to be that start wanting that, and resenting that. It's a very dangerous path that we are on. Beauty isn't a size 2, 4, or 20, it's not. We cannot define what beauty is. I can't tell you how many people have said that my calves are too big, I'm too muscular, I've got too much acne, I'm too blonde, I'm too dark, I'm not edgy, I'm too pretty, my nose is crooked. I can't tell you all the things that have been told to me about me, because you wouldn't believe me.

How do you suppress the negative commentary?

My life isn't about what I look like anymore. There are so many things to be happy about. I have two healthy babies and a beautiful husband. Someone gave me really good advice not too long ago -- they said to focus on what "is" rather than what "isn't." That is what I always tell people. Don't focus on losing five pounds -- focus on "I'm going to be happy now" because that is what it's all about.