Gisele Bündchen Talks and Poses for Harper’s Bazaar
August 2, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Gisele Bündchen, Hollywood Moms, Hot Models by Versus
Gisele Bündchen Talks… about labour, keeping her modelesque figure and breastfeeding laws in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar:
“I think breastfeeding really helped (me keep me figure). Some people here (in the US) think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child when they are so little?’ I think there should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
“It’s called ‘labour’ not ‘holiday’ for a reason, and I knew that. You want to go into the most intense physical experience of your life unprepared? That doesn’t make any sense to me. Then I was ready and I thought OK, let’s get to work’. I wasn’t expecting someone else to get the baby out of me.”
… says Gisele, who previously stated that giving birth “didn’t hurt in the slightest.”
Take a look at the rest!
Not all mothers CAN breast feed.
Nor should they if they’re taking medication that could damage their child or if they’re hard drug users. Of course, they shouldn’t have children if they’re on hard drugs but that’s a different subject. A baby recently died because his mother breast fed her baby while she had crystal meth in her system. A baby can suffer from being breast fed by a woman on many prescription drugs as well.
When I was a baby, I refused breast milk. Everyone’s response was, for lack of a better word, “wtf?”
By the way, I think that she tries to come off as some super mom and she just ends up sounding self righteous, inconsistent, and pretentious.
Even if she is right (wich she is) that breast feeding is almost always the better choice and yak yak yak about labor, she still is just saying this like everyone woman is exactly like her and that everything she does is right and good.
Then again, I can’t actually hear her saying this.
Maybe she wasn’ being entirely serious when she said some of these things.
She obviously meant breastfeeding in case the mother is healthy.
i refused it after i was 3 months old hahahaha yuck
My mother couldn’t breast-feed, and according to Gisele and Freud I should be pretty fd up! Hahahaha She should probably stick to modelling…
she is ridiculous! not only is it unsafe for some mothers to breast feed, but some babies are actually allergic to breast milk! I was sick the first month of life and as soon as my mom’s doctor told her to switch to soy formula I got all better…coincidence, I think not? I really hate it when celebrities try to give medical advice!
Not just hard drugs.
A lot of prescription drugs are excreted into breast milk, and some of them can be damaging to babies.
As a mother of 2 who breast fed both kids for 21 months each, I think breast feeding is wonderful. My choices do not give me the right to judge other mothers for their choices. I think one of the most beautiful gifts that has come to me from motherhood is knowing that everyone has their own path and walks it accordingly. Breastfeeding is NOT an easy process and most women are not told how difficult it is to get started. Worthwhile, but difficult. And like many people stated, different health problems and medications can hinder the process. Gisele should be concentrating on her own mothering and find a softer way to phrase her strong values as not to make others feel offended or judged.
I think she has amazing body, it is not question who is the supermodel between of ,,supermodels”
Somehow I start to like her less and less. Her comments get more ridiculous by the second. Women should be forced by law to breastfeed – erm , excuse me ?
Maybe she should stop judging all mothers on what decisions they make concerning theire babies.
On a side note: stunning face, skinny body – nothing new there. Looks good.
I agree with you! who is she to be judging other mothers? and breastfeeding law? uhm weirdo that she is.. There are alot of reasons why a woman might choose not to breastfeed. I swear, celebrities nowadays need to go through a whole course before they can be allowed to give interviews to prevent stupid remarks like this.
As for her looks, ofcourse she looks flawless. We all would if we would have the amount of make up and photoshop she has. Without all that, her face ain’t that stunning nor is her body actually.
I agree !
So true, just like the other coments. There’s nothing wrong on having and opinion, but she shouldn’t judge and offend others, speacially her own public. Who the hell she thinks is reading all the maganizes she on?
Maybe there is some sort of translation issue – not sure. But to say that women should be forced to breastfeed by law? That is ridiculous.
First, again, not all women CAN breastfeed. Second, what about adopted babies, or babies who refuse their mothers milk?
Also – she hopped on the nut-bag train as soon as she said anything about a painless birth. Birth is SUPPOSED TO BE PAINFUL. You could even compare a painful birth to being as natural as breast feeding.
I suppose it’s easy for someone that thin to pass a baby without any pain? I don’t think so… I officially DON’T like her. Thin or not.
I was a painless birth! My mum went into labour, and 20 minutes later I was born after one contraction that apparently didn’t hurt. Mind you I was the last of 5 children so she’d had a lot of practice, haha!
I have actually read the opposite: that it is meant to be pain-free, but because modern society labels all the terms in a way that makes it sound painful (e.g. contractions, labour pains) and tells everyone they can expect pain, they experience pain when they do give birth. I’ve even heard of places you can go where people reassign titles to the words associated with the process of having a baby and some other practice methods, then the women go on to have babies with little to no pain.
How true it is or not I can’t say, but other animals certainly don’t yowl in pain when giving birth.
I don’t think that’s true, unless you are talking about animals.
Most animals don’t have a painful birthing process, but we as humans d do, mainly because we walk upright and our skulls got bigger. Our birthing canal is substantially smaller and the baby’s skull circumference is substantially larger, which makes the birth painful. Nature compensated by making human babies “underdeveloped” compared to their animal counterparts, but it’s still a tight fit.
Here’s a picture to kind of explain my point further:
http://www.outlookseries.com/news/Science/3596.h26.jpg
Agreed.
I know plenty of women who went into the experience believing that it’s a journey and it’s not suppose to be painful. Many of them were shocked with the amount of pain they felt, myself included.
Science has proven that a hormone is released after birth that helps women to forget the pain during labor and childbirth. This suggests that it is meant to be painful.
There’s also the chemical rushes to your brain that make it impossible to remember the pain of the birth, so you’ll want to do it again.
oops should have read the last sentence!!!!
Actually, my first birth was EXTRMELY painful, as I was induced in hospital. I was determined that my next would be the opposite. I read books on natural childbirth and listened to self-hypnosis tapes. To cut a long story short, the second birth was pain-free and the most amazing experience of my life. After I popped him out I wanted to do it again! My midwife was amazed, and got the details of the CDs I had used off me!
When you’re scared and anxious, anticipating pain, the blood flows away from your uterus towards the ‘flight or fight’ muscles. THIS is what causes the pain, and I don’t deny that labour can be painful, having experienced it myself.
Please share the name of those books and tapes with us (or me at least), I want å natural, painfree birth as well, and I’m sure it is possible! =)
I think that in these situations people talk in a general way. In that exactly moment they are not thinking about exceptions. In a general way she’s right, mother’s milk it’s way healthier
i think in this case i am disinclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. how many ways can you interpret ‘it should be law’?? plus as far as giving your babies chemicals, there is actually a lot of evidence ( i actually proof read the published study), that premature babies benefit from supplements, the same sort of supplements they put in ordinary baby milk. there may be many good reasons to breast feed, but a lot of research goes into developing formulas, and it hasn’t harmed the many many friends i have who were raised on it. a happy mother is a better gift than anything else.
mostly tho i just really really hate to
be told what i should be doing.
comment posted before i could finish. whoops!!
well mother’s milk is the most natural way, so I believe it’s the better one. But everyone has a statement about certain topics, we think all different
Yeah, celebs always contradict themselves. Labor painless? Yeah, Kourtney Kardashian said she felt nothing too, and that she pushed only like 3 painless minutes or something. Whatever.
kourtney’s labour was aired on keeping up with the kardashians…..she basically pulled her baby out of her vagina….oddly enough though it didnt seem like the labour hurt her
Way to make women who CAN’T breastfeed sound like bad mothers. I do think women should breastfeed, when and if they can, but they shouldn’t be looked down on if they can’t, it being for physical or medicinal reasons.
Yeah, like there isn’t enough guilt tripping of women world wide, we needed her to add to it as well. And who is she again to tell people how to live their lives? Some kind of writer, or hard working member of society, or perhaps some kind of genius scientist or…
No. She’s a freaking MODEL. She gets paid for being born lucky.
God what a pretentious tw@t.
But isn’t it pretty clear that she is only referring to women who worry it will make their breasts saggy (I’m not sure if that’s true, but lots of people definitely did/do think that)?
So Gen? Even that is a good reason. If she get’s saggy breasts she’ll she whoop out a few thousand dollars and get a boobjob. Normal moms don’t have that kind of money, especially not with a new born baby. Some moms do want to stay in shape and have nice breasts even after birth. With all the insecurities women have nowadays, i can image saggy breasts adding even more insecurity.
Though personally i would never not feed my baby because of the breast thing, i can imagine some people don’t and although breast feeding is incredibly healthy, it is not as if the baby will freakin die with normal milk. Some moms only feed breast milk for a few weeks, some a few months. In the end, the baby has to switch to normal milk anyways, no matter how healthy it is for a short period. Also, if she did mean that then she should have said it so, she’s gonna get alot of hate for a stupid comment like that.
Actually Rachel, I disagree with the first part. You understand why moms would want to stay in shape and have nice breasts even after birth? That’s just ridiculous, your baby should come first, that’s maternal love. If you’re more worried about your body after you give birth than having a healthy child then there’s something seriously abnormal. When women breast feed, they pass on their immunities to the baby, which is EXTREMELY helpful to a helpless baby that has NO defenses. As a mother you should be willing to die for your baby, and something trivial as sagging breasts wouldn’t even come into the equation.
First off, what do you mean by “normal milk”?? Formula is not normal milk, it’s a substitute. Cow’s milk is not “normal milk.” What is so normal about a human adult drinking milk from a cow that is design to grow a calf? Not that I’m against consuming dairy per se, but calling it normal seems funny.
And second, not all people choose to, nor need to switch to “normal milk.” Some people breastfeed for longer, possibly up to 3, 4, 5 years or longer in some cases. And upon weaning, people can choose whatever milk they would like or their child or they don’t have to consume any kind of milk at all.
Gisele, she’s beautiful, but I think she spoke without giving much thought into it, especially making breastfeeding into a law?? There needs to be more freedom and choice, not more laws restricting people and making them into a robot. Let the people (and mothers) make their own wise choice and sometime foolish, but let them live their own life.
5 years? i find THAT unnatural.
It might be kinda related to her “women’s bodies after having a baby being easy to get back” comment. Breast freeding is supposed to help your body return to “normal,” it’s also supposed to help return the breasts to their pre-birth perkiness…unless you’re having tons of kids.
There’s not a (human) baby on earth who can pop out and drink any kind of animal or soy milk (nor water), without it being harmful. Breastmilk is used (even if it’s difficult and the baby doesn’t like it) to build immunity and to give the baby all the antigens in the mother, she uses breastmilk to pass on basic immune system attributes. Also there are chemicals in breastmilk (well, any mammal milk) that satisfy the baby enough that they keep coming back for more, it causes them to enjoy the milk and continue to eat more and therefore grow, hence the term “milk-drunk baby.”
Of course, there’s always exceptions to a “generally good idea,” at that point you consult your doctor to find the best option for you.
Exactly. Why are people so judgmental regarding breastfeeding anyway?
I’ve never like Giselle anyway. Her comments are silly and she looks like a tranny.
HA!
most of my friends tried to breast feed but it was just really tricky, the baby wasn’t settling, they found it uncomfortable and it was making feeding time( which is a lot of time when they are that young) really stressful for both mother and baby. i don’t think that benefits anyone.
i would love to try breastfeeding when the time comes, but i won’t force it.
Beautiful woman, nice.
Excellente site
Oh, Gisele. Stick to international modeling and leave the international law for people with degrees. You know, who have gone to college? And law school? Right. You’re excellent in the beauty world…stick to what you know.
Meanwhile, I’ll lobby the “international law-making committee” to have your brilliant idea put into “the books.”
Glad she admit that it hurt like hell.
it’s easy to her to say all that stuff she has said in these post-baby interviews. she looks perfect cos she has a personal trainer kicking her ass 7 days a week and nutritionists and stuff and nurses and all that. not every new mom is able to hit the gym everyday cos they don’t have the money to hire a nurse, so they have a baby to take care of 24/7. and what comes to the comment she said about pregnant women using pregnancy as an excuse to become a garbage disposal, i would say that it must be very personal with the cravings and all that and that again, not everyone has a nutritionist and a personal trainer to keep them in the perfect shape and keeping them away from the chocolates and pasta.
and lucky gisele if she has had a painless child-birth and that she is able to breastfeed, but she shouldn’t be saying all those things as if they would be a self-evident truth that every woman has a painless childbirth and blahblahblah and yes, she sounds like she thinks she’s a super mom and knows everything about everything.
i don’t have children, but i would say there are many ways to be a good mom and that not all people are able to breast feed for medical reasons etc. but i do think that ‘oh my god my breasts are gonna look awful after breastfeeding’ is not a reason to give up on breastfeeding. that’s stupid cos natural breast milk is the best thing for a baby to eat.
Agreed. Also, when you’re pregnant you should eat healthy. The first thing these starving models do when they find out they get pregnant? They start eating crap food like donuts and burgers just because they cannot eat that otherwise. I can’t even count the amount of times i’ve read celebs and models say ‘I’m eating everything now that i am pregnant!’. If anything i imagine that when i get pregnant i’ll be only eating healthy and once in a while cave to the cravings.
For someone who has millions and a easy lifestyle, she should be careful what she says about other people, especially those who have it alot harder than her.
I kind of disagreed with this part of your comment:
“it’s easy to her to say all that stuff she has said in these post-baby interviews. she looks perfect cos she has a personal trainer kicking her ass 7 days a week and nutritionists and stuff and nurses and all that”
While trainers and nurses and nutritionist can do the research for you and tell you what to do, they can’t do the work for you.
I don’t get why people always say, “Well celebrities have trainers!” So? The only help that anyone can get from a trainer is instruction on which execises to do and how to do them…it’s not like the trainer does the workout for you.
I’ve never been to a trainer and I’m in shape. I google’d and YouTube’d my whole exercise routine. There’s really no need for a personal trainer.
And I understand that new mothers have very little time, but I’m pretty sure the majority of people can find 30 minutes to work out every other day. I work two jobs so I don’t have much time either. I work out while I’m cooking my meals. Right there on the floor in the kitchen…just start doing push ups or crunches. Cleaning up? Grab a weight and lift it while picking clothes off the ground.
Yes, there are some people who really can’t, but honestly, I do believe that 95% of people can eat fairly healthy and exercise at least every other day, even mothers with babies.
I guess it’s hard to judge what you can or can’t do after you’ve had a baby unless you where there yourself. But I believe moms who say that if they’d squeeze in 30 min work outs everyday they would drop dead from exhaustion after a while. Plus we have to drop the notion to compare ourselves to celebrities and theire dayly routines.
Even though a trainer isn’t doing the work for you a maid and a nanny sure are.
yeah.. i don’t believe that with a poor diet (she did lost weight veeeery quickly) and a lot of exercise she could give her baby enough milk… don’t believe it at all.. because my sister had a lot of milk with first baby, but when she had her second baby she wanted to loose weight quickly for an event, and what she didn’t have milk..
UGH! x1000000
First of all not all mothers are ABLE to breast feed and comments like that do nothing but make those women feel even worse. Breast feeding is HARD and some women can do if for 3 months, some for 6, some for a year and some can’t do it at all. Seriously the judgment is just too annoying.
How about you just stick to looking thin and pretty and don’t tell me what to do with my body or my baby… *rolls eyes*
I hate it when models try to prove to us that they have brains.
Ditto on the “she didn’t even go to college thing.” She doesn’t have the facts to support any of her erroneous claims about breastfeeding and painless birth. I am sure she smiling all throughout her happy labor, and applying more makeup to her face because it was so damn painless, haha.
c’mon,she expressed her opinions in a general way and yet I definitely agree with her,mothers surely need to be educated about th importance of breastfeeding..Of course not all the mothers can deliver a breastfeeding during the drug usage,some diseases and even nipple infections are contraindications for nursing but we all know that some women just don’t really pay enough attention it which brings up genuinely hard issues such as malnutrition during the babyhood and later..
All in all,agreed.
btw,her body is a killer,i am not a huge fan of her face but still comely.
agree.
Idiot.
Leave people to make their own choices.
You may continue striking poses and looking pretty.
Absolutely ridiculous comment. Good for you Gisele that breastfeeding came natural to you. I on the other hand? Bleeding n*pples, no milk, crying for hours day and night trying to feed my 9 pound baby that was starving because I couldn’t produce enough milk. Way to make people in that situation feel even worse.
Formula was the best thing for me, my son, and my husband.
Keep your mouth shut. She just made A LOT of moms, (and non moms) irritated by that comment.
Oh, also? My son is now almost 4. He can walk. And talk. And hear. And can do everything he is supposed to be doing. With no allergies or health issues. Amazingly…all after being fed chemicals because I failed as a mother!
Thank you Lynn for your comments. Exact same thing happened to me and my son is four years old and has zero health problems.
I wasn’t breast fed because my mum was so ill during and after my birth, and was on medication. I have a fantastic relationship with her, and have never had any health worries.
I think if women cannot breast feed, or do not want to breast feed, then that is their decision.
Her PR person should advise her to keep her mouth closed. She seems like alienate people every time she opens it.
gorgeous pictures!! but I don’t like the pedestal she’s put herself and keeps pointing down everyone elses’ ‘mistakes’. Get over yourself, people ARE diferent!!
She looks old now actually. Her face isn’t beautiful
I hate it when they try to preach, every pregnancy and birth is different.
Watch what you’re saying, for God sakes!! Gisele is right, breastfeed is the best for the babies, no matter what… if some mother can’t breastfeed her baby, for any reason, should look for a wet-nurse. But you are too worried about appearance, good boobs that just can think in how your breast will look after the feed, come on!
I think she didn’t put herself in a pedestal or something like that, she is defending her point of view, wich, by the way, I think is right!
How my boobs looked was the LAST thing on my mind at that point, the only thing I could focus on day and night was why I couldn’t make enough milk for my baby. That was after consulting two lactation consultants.
Her point of view that breastfeeding is best, i’m sure everyone can agree is right. But it doesn’t always work out that way.
I think her quote sounds pretty black and white and close to useless in it’s all one-sidedness, but i’m not sure if i’d disagree with her if i actually got to talk to her about the subject instead of just reading an interview. My mom wasn’t able to breastfeed me or my brothers bc she just didn’t produce enough milk, but i do know women who just refuse to do it out of fear of what it might do to their bodies and bc they find it easier to pump the milk and then give supplements as well, that i find a bit vain at least now, but who am i to talk, having no children of my own..
I don’t really like Gisele or her look, but i think she is right, formula doesn’t even compare to breast milk. The percentage of woman who physically can’t breastfed is 2 – 5 %, obviously there are other factors.
And also breastfeeding has got nothing to do with breasts sagging, http://www.openaccesshealthcare.com/2009/12/breast-feeding-does-not-cause-breasts-to-sag/
I feel differently, sorry. Mine were fantastic and I didn’t gain too much weight during my pregnancy. They are completely different post baby and will never be the same. It absolutely has an affect and most of my friends will agree with me.
A doctor said to a patient that didn’t want to breastfeed that it’s pregnancy that makes your breast sagging not breastfeeding so if you want to have perfect boobs you shouldn’t get pregnant in the first place. Your hormones change so much during pregnancy and these hormones in combination with weight gain and loose especially in your boob area change elasticity and quality of your breast tissue and even if you don’t breastfeed your boobs would be different after birth maybe not as much but surly never the same.
Who said I wanted to have perfect boobs after pregnancy? Did I state that? No. Please don’t put words into my mouth. It’s insulting.
All I’m saying is that pregnancy and breastfeeding can make a woman’s breasts sag.
I wasn’t directly referring to you, i apologize if I offended you but really was referring to people who chose not to breastfeed because of fear of getting saggy boob. Plus i think people here are blowing that way out of proportion she is a model and like many other celeba she said what was on here mind and didn’t care what people might think after nothing new and nothing terrible if you simply take it as an advice for woman who can breastfeed and not the ones who can’t. And about that being a law in my opinion this was just her way of emphasizing the importance of breast feeding, even tough that wasn’t the bast way of doing it, but then again she isn’t the smartest or most educated person in the world and even if she was, we all sometimes say things that aren’t appropriate or can insult someone without wanting to do that.
Okay, I thought it was directed at me. Thanks for the response.
Wow, she’s a little pretentious there. Lack of tolerance for others is heavily correlated with lack of education and knowledge….maybe she should have gotten an education? Sorry, that goes a little far. But seriously, how did she manage to turn simple truths like most breasmilk is much better for babies, and yoga, baths, and meditation can help with birth, and manage to turn it into condemnation for others and self praise?
Besides, it’s factors like the influences of formula companies in the hospitals, lack of support learning to breastfeed the first time ( it can be very painful and very difficult for some women), pressure from family who also want to feed the baby and who grew up thinking formula was better, etc.,etc. that contribute to women ending up not breastfeeding….
Sorry. God, I find those comments irritating. I officially can’t stand this woman.
She is obviously not saying that mothers who are unable to breastfeed should, I believe she is probably referring to women who can breastfeed and choose not to for whatever reason. But the reality is that breast milk is the most natural thing to feed your baby, and protects them more so than baby formulas can. At the end of the day her argument is that formula is synthetic, and breast milk is natural – I really don’t think that she is saying that mothers who are medically unable to or mothers who have drugs and other substances in their milk should breastfeed regardless of these facts. Breastfeeding is also healthier for the mother, it helps her uterus to reduce in size faster after birth, and it has been shown that it decreases your risk of breast cancer in later life. All in all, I don’t really blame her for what she said.
My mother had my brother in 1978 in a communist country. She had milk for 3 weeks and than none. She did not have access to any supplements. So she fed him with cow milk which she boiled and skimmed by herself. She later had two other children, me in 1979 – the same story – and my younger sister in 1987 – still no milk, but at least there was something else besides cow’s milk. Now, i will not be pretentious, but we are all perfectly healthy and i must say my brother is one of the most intelligent people that i have personally met (his iq indicates genius). I would appreciate is if this pretentious self-centered half a brain woman would kindly keep her opinions to herself. Or express them in a manner which is not judgmental. As what she just stated is extremely offensive and – not to mention – with absolutely no darn basis in any scientific study. Is the mother’s milk the best for the child? In most situations, it is. Is it in the same time that the mother decides what and how she raises her child? YES. So just shut up and do what your paid for, and that is definitely not talking. No one thinks models are even remotely smart, no one will ever think that if some of them come up with such ridiculous comments.
Sounds like she’s got the case of mom-itis. You know, those mothers that can’t stop talking about their kids and do you want to see their picture, and they do this and that, and you should too because they do it so therefore it’s automatically right and better. Blah blah blah.
Nevertheless, she’s so beautiful. I know people don’t like her face, but she just looks so regal to me. With a face like that, I can put up with her self-righteous ranting and still like her.
I mean I do agree, what’s better straight from the scource or a chemical man made milk? Although yeah obviously it’s not always an option, my mom and blood clots and had a high risk pregnancy with me and my twin brother (he did not make it early on in the pregnancy), so due to blood thinning meds she could not breast feed. Coincidentally, I’ve been anemic since I was a child and they consider it tied to that! So much for safe huh?
Also on a side note, I believe her that she said labor wasn’t that bad, again this is NOT true for everyone, however my mom had two kids, both of us she had natural births and she said it just felt like awful period cramps (endometriosis runs in our family though so maybe the extra pain preps us better ha). She pointed this out when I was watching a baby store on TLC and she said the women are over dramatic haha.
She must know these comments will piss soooo many women/mothers off? I see where she’s coming from- breast milk is usually the best thing for your child, and I think if you are able to breast feed then you should, but at the end of the day a woman’s body is her own and she can choose how she wishes to use it, she doesn’t need a model telling her what to do!
ACTUALY, ALMOST EVERY SINGEL DAY, PAGES LIKE THIS HAVE BROUGHT US PICTURES OF GISELE WORKING OUT. DID SHE SPEND SOME TIME WITH HER BABY? SHE LEFT HER BABY TO HER NANY JUST BECAUSE SHE WONTED HER FIGURE BACK AND THEN START TO GIVING PARENTING ADVICES?
exactly, and there’s been photos of gisele out and about with a nanny, who happens to be the one carrying gisele’s baby around. oh dear.
She had the most amazing body pre birth http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6bt0hyqMy1qchyboo1_500.jpg She looks pretty good now. Shame about her holier than thou attitude.
holy hell that picture link you posted is so hot!!!
Big nose should keep her imbosile opinions to herself!!! Yes harsh, but my daughter had a disformed mouth, so had to be bottlefed. I’m the first to say if a woman’s hot, but she isn’t my cuppa. Well done Leo on the upgrade to Bar!!
She’s just a bitch. I hate the things that come out of her mouth. “No one is going to get the baby out but me”? I had to have a c-section because my pelvis was too small. She is so snotty and acts like her way is the holy way.
I think people are overreacting this much because “Gisele” says it,a groovy model who is supposed to strike hot poses rather than open her mouth..Also agreed on sometimes models can utter big ass words just to prove us they “actually” do have brains..But I don’t think there is anything wrong with what she said,since I am sure she ruled out the unusual issues(like drug usage or exc) when she was saying mothers should breastfeed their babes..No(before someone asks)I am not her lawyer,I just agree with her at that point..And since I am a medico,I can tell that just because you didn’t breastfeed your babies and they are ok,it doesn’t mean there’s nothing special with mother milk or all the kids who aren’t breastfed will have healthy developmenta..Thankfully your kids have no disease so far but it doesn’t mean they will never have,because especially allergic diseases can show up at the late teens…I am sure you had your own reasons not to breastfeed your kids,but don’t mislead the people,because science is definitely aware of how important breastfeeding is..Lots ok kids who weren’t breastfed come up with serious allergic or intestinal problems as well as malnutrition and growth delay..
at last,she might be a little harsh on her comment but she did a great thing when pinpointing the importance of the breastfeeding.
I 100% agree with you. Plus there is evidence that some of us not all have a certain gene that, if we are breastfed we become more intelligent. You can get genetic testing to know if you or your baby has it. But i think it’s quite expensive so if you don’t have any medical problems I think breastfeeding is good for your babies. And I’m sure she wasn’t referring to women who can’t breastfeed.
Breastfeeding is important. We get it. It’s also a very PERSONAL issue. Many woman struggle heavily with not being able to do it, so to imply they just want to feed their baby ‘chemicals’ is ridiculous. I don’t care of Gisele or a random woman on the street said the above comment, bottom line is that it is close minded.
Also, ironically, my mother did not breastfeed me or my middle sister. She did with our youngest sister…and guess who has the most health issues? The youngest who was breastfed. She has asthma and allergies. Me and my other sister never have had any. We didn’t suddenly become unhealthy teenagers who failed to thrive.
I understand medically speaking breastfeeding IS proven best. But it’s personal. And it doesn’t neccesairly mean it gives your child the road to perfect health.
Oh, shut up, Giselle. She just sounds stupid. Yes, breastfeeding might have helped her to get back in shape, so there’s no wonder she talks about the benefits of breastfeeding. I doubt she did it only for the sake of her baby. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying she’s a bad mum, it’s just that most models are obsessed about their bodies and try to get their pre-pregnancy body back as soon as possible. Think of Heidi Klum who was back modelling on a catwalk only two months after child birth.
Oh, she’s so proud of herself. Millions of women breastfeed even more that 6 months, so what? While others just can’t breastfeed. I actually believe that these babies who weren’t breastfed are no worse than those who were.
Every time she mentions giving birth of any description it sounds like she thinks she was the first woman ever on earth to give birth!
Sounds like a model
The only thing worse than a man forcing you do something with your body is when a woman does.
What happened to supporting each others decisions (whether you agree or not on the decision.)
Her comment is a slap in the face to any mum or mum to be. The great thing about my country is there is no law on what i have to do when it comes to breastfeeding….I would be ashamed if there was a law telling me what to do with my own body.
Im currently 3 months pregnant and take her comments very personally. Of course i want to breastfeed, but if i cant, i dont want to feel like im less of a mum or person because i cant do it for whatever reason.
She really needs to get back to what she knows ….stealing pregnant womens boyfriends!!!!
GRRRRR!