Posted: 06/21/2012 10:55 am Updated: 06/21/2012 11:59 am
Singer Pink has dropped her rockstar lifestyle to breastfeed her daughter, Willow Sage. Instead of drinking and smoking during her recent album photo shoot, the mom of one nursed baby Willow, and even shared a stunning photo (Instagrammed, of course) of the two of them via Twitter:
Pink isn't the first celebrity to tell fans she is breastfeeding. After attachment parents -- especially those who practice baby-led weaning and may breastfeed their children into toddlerhood -- came under fire (thanks to a certain magazine cover), famous moms spoke out in support. Alanis Morissette wrote in a HuffPost blog why being an attachment parent is important to her, actress Mayim Bialik defended specific aspects of attachment parenting on CNN, and according to Baby Center, Pink tweeted:
“I felt that the article in TIME on attachment parenting was unfortunately a tad extreme. I support attachment parenting 100%… And have a very happy and healthy little girl to show for it. It’s time we support what’s healthy (breastfeeding) instead of judge it.”
Indeed, though doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics stand behind a "breast is best" ideal, the general public in the U.S. isn't always supportive of nursing moms -- breastfeeders are told to cover up in libraries, retail stores, courtrooms, the list goes on. Hopefully, Pink's photo will bring us one step closer to normalizing the image of a mom feeding her child.
Of course, celebs have been sharing their breastfeeding stories long before Instagram made it cool. Click through the gallery below of 21 Memorable Breastfeeding Moments In Hollywood History to see great quotes from Mary-Louise Parker, Kendra Wilkinson and more.
Memorable Breastfeeding Moments In Hollywood
Pink isn't the first celebrity to tell fans she is breastfeeding. After attachment parents -- especially those who practice baby-led weaning and may breastfeed their children into toddlerhood -- came under fire (thanks to a certain magazine cover), famous moms spoke out in support. Alanis Morissette wrote in a HuffPost blog why being an attachment parent is important to her, actress Mayim Bialik defended specific aspects of attachment parenting on CNN, and according to Baby Center, Pink tweeted:
“I felt that the article in TIME on attachment parenting was unfortunately a tad extreme. I support attachment parenting 100%… And have a very happy and healthy little girl to show for it. It’s time we support what’s healthy (breastfeeding) instead of judge it.”
Indeed, though doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics stand behind a "breast is best" ideal, the general public in the U.S. isn't always supportive of nursing moms -- breastfeeders are told to cover up in libraries, retail stores, courtrooms, the list goes on. Hopefully, Pink's photo will bring us one step closer to normalizing the image of a mom feeding her child.
Of course, celebs have been sharing their breastfeeding stories long before Instagram made it cool. Click through the gallery below of 21 Memorable Breastfeeding Moments In Hollywood History to see great quotes from Mary-Louise Parker, Kendra Wilkinson and more.
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2 seconds ago ( 1:49 PM)
AAAAAAAAAAAGH...WHO CARES WHAT PINK OR ANY OF THOSE WOMEN DO WITH THEIR GODDAMMED BREASTS OR BABIES!!!!???? I am sick to DEATH of hearing about this, or the people wanting us to care. If you wanna do it then go goddammed do it and shut your mouth. If your on someone else's property or public property that doesnt allow it then do what millions of other moms do who can't breast feed and use a goddammed bottle and get over yourselves. GEEZUS!!!
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32 minutes ago ( 1:17 PM)
willow is not weeping, like many men who want to be breast-fed by pink!!!!!(dig?)www.thepoetbandcompany.yolasite.com
44 minutes ago ( 1:05 PM)
It looks like she's ABOUT to breastfeed to me. What impresses me about Pink though is not this, but the fact that she was inspired to write the song "Perfect" while she was pregnant with her daughter Willow. That to me, is awesome attachment parenting.
2 hours ago (11:38 AM)
I call Bullshit look at the kid laying flat with his cheek where her breast is she's holding the kid not breast feeding!
2 hours ago (12:11 PM)
Boy you must be looking really, really close! How many have you breastfed? LOL
1 hour ago (12:41 PM)
He is actually correct. Its not humanly possible for a woman to breast feed a child while the child is on its back with nose straight up in the air. Its pretty obvious the baby isnt latched -on.
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3 hours ago (11:07 AM)
Great picture. Some of the comments here prove the point that our attitute toward breastfeeding in this country is very bad. We are one of the few countries that sexualizes breastfeeding which is why people want it covered up. Only a pervert thinks that way.
3 hours ago (11:05 AM)
Though stunning is an odd word choice, for a natural moment between mother and child...I do think Pink is a stunning woman and entertainer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stsDXki__U&list=PLB3C15EB236604FCD&index=4&feature=plpp_video
3 hours ago (10:43 AM)
Perversed world. A woman did exactly what God gave her breasts for and she's praised for doing something "stunning". Perverted world we live in!
3 hours ago (10:38 AM)
Not sure what is 'stunning' about it. That's what they're for. I drove past three dairy farms on my way to work today.
3 hours ago (10:46 AM)
This is in the parenting section, and she is a parent...not sure what you expected in this part of Huffypost? o.0
3 hours ago (10:58 AM)
I expected this, I have no issue with it whatsoever. I laugh at some of the adjectives HP chooses to use sometimes, but that's all.
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3 hours ago (10:20 AM)
This picture just goes to show you, we have raised a Society of MORON's , when this makes the news
4 hours ago (10:14 AM)
but.......is she really breastfeeding? looks like she is merely holding the baby with her top down, bra looks like it is in place.
3 hours ago (10:26 AM)
nursing bras have a hook or clip at the top of each cup, so the bra stays in place and only the cup of the side being utilized folds down out of the way. They actually come in very pretty styles now, there was a HUGE improvement in them from my first boy (almost 9 years ago) to my younger boy (3 years ago)
3 hours ago (11:10 AM)
They're a TREMENDOUS improvement from my last one almost 20 years ago.We had Wilma Flintstone looking nursing bras back when.
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3 hours ago (10:48 AM)
You just unhook the front and voila.http://blogs.babble.com/being-pregnant/files/2011/04/nursing.jpg
4 hours ago (10:12 AM)
nice, tasteful pic, i just hope she quits nursing before the child goes to school. i'm just floored by all this attachment parenting......it's a joke, and people wonder why bullying is such an issue......good fodder for bullying......you sucked your mamma's boobie till you were 5, na na na na na.
3 hours ago (11:15 AM)
Yeah, and Depression Era kids [and prior] went through the same thing.There wasn't any such thing as "baby formula" in those days.
All kids were breast feed and every kid knew that every kid around them were breast feed too.
Yet I don't recall a "bully" story of late that was ever started over a bully picking on a kid & bullying the kid because the kid was breast feed.
4 hours ago ( 9:48 AM)
I would like to challenge Huff Post to go ONE WEEK without using the word STUNNING in a headline. 