Had an actual fight with DH about Gisele Bundchen

[Anonymous]

It's not her breastfeeding. Its her smugness regarding breastfeeding (see quote above) as well as telling everyone how her home birth "didn't hurt in the slightest".

Bitch please. I'm skinny and eat the crappiest food but am blessed with good genes and awesome metabolism. I don't go around telling everyone else how easy it is to be skinny and there should be laws about people being fat because it's not hard to lose weight. That would make me an asshole.

[Anonymous]

She has man hands.

[Anonymous]

Didn't see the picture.I also didn't breastfeed-no milk whatsoever, dry like Sahara desert.
If my husband had mentioned anything, I would've kicked his ass.

[Anonymous]

I am all for BF promotion because we still have some seriously ignorant women out there (my SIL being one of them), who get all horrified at the prospect of a baby on a boob. My SIL seriously thinks that the "cool kids feed formula," her boobs are only for men to play with, and only third-world women with no teeth breastfeed. She doesn't read much. Anyway, the point is that there are very legitimate reasons for formula feeding, but then, since my SIL is a label-whore in the worst way, having Gisele, Kate Middleton, and whomever else celebrate BF'ing would encourage women like my SIL to breastfeed, and I'm for that. The campaign has to go to the far outer reaches of motherhood.

FYI, I BF'd my first for 6 months, and my second I started supplementing at 2 months, so I understand all the reasons women face in trying to BF exclusively.

That being said, I'm also noticing that some men are really getting into breastfeeding. I have male colleagues who ask me very detailed questions about me BF'ing and then tell me their wives' experiences in minute detail. I mean, the questions and comments are all very legitimate, and it's clear the men are very knowledgeable about BFing, and I do think it's cute and a good sign of the times, but it also weirds me out a bit, I have to say.

[Anonymous]

I would love to see a series of professional staged photos depicting "normal"working mothers breast feeding their child. Have one of a woman sitting at her desk answering a phone, typing on a computer while have her three coworkers bringing her more work while she breast feeds. That would just a sight but alas people would bitch about that too.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how her three co-workers felt about it. Hey Mark, can you hand me that stapler? Yeah that's my boob.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(1) I think the photo is awesome for its BF promotion.

(2) At the same time, I agree that she is completely annoying.

(3) Mostly, though, I think the BFing wars are stupid. You tried your hardest and did what worked best for you and your family. She is doing the same thing, but her body/family/baby/financial situation/access to childcare/flexibility that allows her to bring her baby to work is different than yours. So don't beat yourself up. Own your efforts. Own your choice.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to see a series of professional staged photos depicting "normal"working mothers breast feeding their child. Have one of a woman sitting at her desk answering a phone, typing on a computer while have her three coworkers bringing her more work while she breast feeds. That would just a sight but alas people would bitch about that too.

A series of pics of how most women "multitask" would be awesome. In mine I'd be surfing DCUM and checking email while pumping at my desk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, you're clearly upset about your own issues with breastfeeding and feeling judged. Do you think your husband judges you, or do you know that? Are you projecting your own feelings of inadequacy onto him? "She nursed her baby until the baby was one, so it must be important to her" doesn't necessarily imply that women who don't nurse that long don't care about it. I'm not the world's biggest fan of Gisele, but I wasn't at all offended by the photo. yes, she's rich and beautiful and has a team of people to help her, but it's also a nice way to show that breastfeeding isn't something to be ashamed of or hidden, and I loved that the photo showed all the people who work to make her look so good--it really shows the effort that goes into her glamour. I don't think that we should be judging others on their breastfeeding, and Gisele has made some judgmental remarks in the past, but a photo of a woman breastfeeding =/= judgment of women who don't.

Snort. She's fully glamored-up in that photograph where she's supposedly getting glamored-up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is Gisele's previous quote about breastfeeding:

"Some people here 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?' There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months."

She's a smug bitch.

She really said that? I guess she doesn't think things through much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The picture doesn't bother me, but Gisele does. People who sit on a mountain of privilege and criticize the compromises that most of us mortals have to make are assholes. And that is what she is.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The picture doesn't bother me, but Gisele does. People who sit on a mountain of privilege and criticize the compromises that most of us mortals have to make are assholes. And that is what she is.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The picture doesn't bother me, but Gisele does. People who sit on a mountain of privilege and criticize the compromises that most of us mortals have to make are assholes. And that is what she is.

http://gifatron.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/George-Costanza-clapping.gif

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am all for BF promotion because we still have some seriously ignorant women out there (my SIL being one of them), who get all horrified at the prospect of a baby on a boob. My SIL seriously thinks that the "cool kids feed formula," her boobs are only for men to play with, and only third-world women with no teeth breastfeed. She doesn't read much. Anyway, the point is that there are very legitimate reasons for formula feeding, but then, since my SIL is a label-whore in the worst way, having Gisele, Kate Middleton, and whomever else celebrate BF'ing would encourage women like my SIL to breastfeed, and I'm for that. The campaign has to go to the far outer reaches of motherhood.

FYI, I BF'd my first for 6 months, and my second I started supplementing at 2 months, so I understand all the reasons women face in trying to BF exclusively.

That being said, I'm also noticing that some men are really getting into breastfeeding. I have male colleagues who ask me very detailed questions about me BF'ing and then tell me their wives' experiences in minute detail. I mean, the questions and comments are all very legitimate, and it's clear the men are very knowledgeable about BFing, and I do think it's cute and a good sign of the times, but it also weirds me out a bit, I have to say.

Which include personal preference for the mother, BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you're reading WAY too much into the photo. Her nose is tilted up simply because her hair is being pulled back and she's tilted her whole face up to have makeup put on.

She's not "being pampered" in that picture. She is simply WORKING. That's all. This is what she does for a living.

I forgive any pregnant woman and any woman crazy high off having recently been pregnant of any ridiculous stuff they say, so her comment a couple of years ago didn't bother me at all.

It sounds like YOU are feeling guilty and that's why you're defensive.

So getting hair and nails done is now considered work. Interesting.