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Angelina bf photo

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traceybath · 09/10/2008 17:44

It is in the daily mail

but rather a lovely photo and i must say i'm not a fan of saint angelina generally

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HaveYouCheckedTheChildren · 10/10/2008 22:00

There was another thread about this earlier and I agreed with all expat is saying.

Totally staged. And another example of celebrities making hard things look easy - glam and serene - argh. She might have had bf promotion in mind but let's see her do it at the Oscars. Am repeating myself. Why do I care? I am off to eat curry.

GreenMonkies · 10/10/2008 22:02

I think it's a lovely photo, she looks a little tired but very content. It's clear she has a boob out, but you just because you can't see a nipple in a mouth doesn't mean she isn't, or hasn't just been, nursing.

As for being out on the town within weeks of giving birth, well, I know two or three mums who have been in the pub two weeks post birth, leaving new-borns with grannies etc. And some of them were bf, and had been pumping to leave enough boob-juice for junior to have over night. I wouldn't do it myself, but Brangelina are notorious for taking thier tribe with them everywhere, and who is to say they stay out all night? Perhaps they get snapped on the red carpet, watch the premiere and then sneak out the back and go back to the kids, which would mean they were away from the babies for only two or three hours, so is do-able, even if you have huge leaky boobs!!

As far as I'm concerned it's a very beautiful picture, and if it helps to make breastfeeding more normal then I am very pleased they have released them to the public (I'm sure they donate most of the revenue generated by these kind of pictures to charity too). And of course she's showing J-Lo how it's done......so thats super-cool by me!

mabanana · 10/10/2008 22:14

I could breastfeed in that position, lying back, legs up, and often did. I could read a magazine at the same time too, or chat on the phone!

HaveYouCheckedTheChildren · 11/10/2008 00:41

Bloody hell. I had to construct a scaffolding system to be able to feed at all. Chatting and reading magazines was beyond my wildest dreams. Lucky mabanana and Angelina then.

ipanemagirl · 11/10/2008 15:21

loil 2ifbysea!

on balance i think if it promotes bf then good on her, there are precious few sleb role models.

She's clrearly a bit mad & odious but who wouldn't be with that life??

PinkTulips · 11/10/2008 16:00

didn't she say about the other child she gave birth to that she stopped feeding after not very long at all as she didn't paticulaly enjoy it and didn't think it was as important as people made out..... but now she's bf-ing twins and being all earth motherish with 4 older kids running around too

forgive me if i'm a wee bit cynical of her credentials as bf-ing ambassador

GreenMonkies · 11/10/2008 16:37

She bf Shiloh for about 12 weeks, no idea how long she has been/did bf the twins for, she may have stopped by now, this could be an early photo.

midnightexpress · 11/10/2008 17:22

Has anybody mentioned that Shiloh appears to be wearing crocs?

georgimama · 11/10/2008 17:30

There are some incredibly cynical people on this thread. It beggars belief.

Why would anyone pretend to be breast feeding? It attracts little stigma to FF whatever the reasons for doing so(let's face it, we're all tripping over ourselves on these threads not to offend those who cannot or do not FF).

Secondly, it's no one's damn business whether she does or doesn't. Presumably she has released these photos to show her endorsement of BFing to try to encourage other mothers. Why is this a bad thing?

I could, did and do BF in exactly that position, very comfortably.

Just because she "only" BF her elder daughter for a few weeks has no bearing on whether she is BFing the twins or not. Plenty of women BF later children for longer than first ones - my mum did.

Why all the bile?

georgimama · 11/10/2008 17:31

Obviously I meant cannot or do not BF. Whoops.

CrushWithEyeliner · 11/10/2008 17:44

Can't believe the vitriol on this thread - she can't have Bfed because she was photographed "out" a lot in the press in the first few weeks of giving birth? er it is possible to be out and about and still BF or mix feed you know..

It must be staged because some people can't BF in that position? WTF?

It isn't an NCT lesson in BFeeding leaflet picture it's a magazine cover shot of a baby at the mother's breast - could have been after a feed for all we know.

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 17:47

it's the done thing to bf in hollywood. if you admit otherwise it doesn't go over well and they have a new movie to promote.

and this is a woman who described her last baby as 'a blob' and had a full team of top LA OBs flown to Namibia for weeks for the birth in what was basically a huge publicity stunt, then had a 'surprise'/undiagnosed breech resulting in csection.

so yeah, colour me skeptical.

ipanemagirl · 11/10/2008 18:01

I still think it's good if someone as huge as Brangelina promotes bf, it's still a boost even if it isn't promoting it in all its often difficult reality.

If it is fashionable in Hollywood expat, I can't think of a single photo of a bf sleb even if it is a gorgeous pouting photo.

We could do with someone giving it a bigger splash like Demi Moore did her (admittedly highly painted) pregnant body.

But fair enough, she should be allowed to do what she likes I don't know why I feel antagonistic towards her other than simple envy. I think it's the slightly hysterical collecting of children (As Mia Farrow does). I mean to have and adopt so many in such quick succession just wreaks of a kind of hysteria to me! But I may be wrong to judge her so harshly!

georgimama · 11/10/2008 18:04

I'm glad it's the "done thing" to BF in Hollywood. I wish it was the done thing everywhere and if people seeing celebrities endorsing it makes it seem "cool" or whatever they need then fine. The end justifies the means in this case.

TBH we know fuck all really about her, her partner, her motives or her life. How do we know about the ridiculous Namibia thing? Because it was in a magazine. Must be true then.

Areyou suggesting she didn't have a breech and lied about it to justify having a C section? That is ludicrous. Why the hell would she need to justify an elective C section to anyone?

I'm loving the double standards here, how many women have been on threads upset about feeling they have to defend their birth choices and feeding choices, and wise MNers (including you expat) have reassured them time and time again. But because it's a celebrity she deserves scorn and suspicion.

CrushWithEyeliner · 11/10/2008 19:13

"and this is a woman who described her last baby as 'a blob'"

what on earth has that got to do with anything? I described DD as a bean when she was born...don't really get the relevance at all.

If you dislike AJ for other reasons as so many Women seem to (beautiful, rich fertile and thin??) that has zip all to do with this picture and her BFeeding

mabanana · 11/10/2008 19:19

FFS, this is just one photo. DO you really think that Vanity Fair, a leading newstand magazine, would put a 'tit in mouth' picture on its cover in the land of Sarah Palin? Of bloody course it wouldn't! This is a private picture, but one chosen for commercial reasons. I have no doubt that Brad has 'tit in mouth' pictures, but they wouldn't be on the cover of a newstand magazine for a start, and hell, maybe he and Angelina don't want to release those. I have some truly beautiful pictures of ds breastfeeding shortly after birth. He's seen them, all the kdis have seen them, but I don't show them to random strangers and I wouldn't publish them. It IS perfectly possibly to breastfeed like this - I did.

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 19:21

i dislike the photo because i think she's fibbing.

why take it so personally?

i think these Hollywood types are fake and will do anything to promote their own image.

so what?

mabanana · 11/10/2008 19:22

She described her first 'natural' baby as a 'blob' in the context of saying when she adopted, the children were older, had more personality and were clearly more ^themselves'. I see lots of people saying exactly that on here when contrasting their more interesting older child compared to their newborn.

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 19:23

'DO you really think that Vanity Fair, a leading newstand magazine, would put a 'tit in mouth' picture on its cover in the land of Sarah Palin? Of bloody course it wouldn't! '

Having lived in that land for 31 years, yes, I think they would if they had one.

They're the same people who put a woman with a massive scar from mastectomy on the cover and the naked and pregnant Demi Moore.

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 19:24

The media there is still largely liberal and the more contraversial, the more magazines they sell.

W mag is more like erm, let's see, what's teh equivalent here. Not Hello! but more like maybe Tattler - lots of upscale slebs, royalty, ultra-billionnaire coverage.

Aitch · 11/10/2008 19:31

it's not vanity fair, is it? i think vf would, as it happens. the ed is a canuck.

al you angie-haters are making me like her more. i think it's a nice pic and i don't give a fuck if she's mix feeding or what. that's twins she's got there, delivered early as i recall. hard goiing bfing them exclusively i'd have thought.

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 19:32

vanity fair would put the naked president having sex with George Michael on it if it sold mags.

can't say i blame them.

they've printed all kinds of things!

cocoleBOO · 11/10/2008 19:33

At least it's not another picture of Jennifer sitting on her own looking pensive.

peanutbutterkid · 11/10/2008 19:34

Those of you who don't believe, what about this image?

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 19:34

funny how they never print all those photos of jennifer with another fag in her gob.