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to think Mila Kunis planning to have a natural birth is not newsworthy?

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brittanyfurlan · 09/05/2014 13:17

I really like Mila Kunis, she seems like a nice and down to earth person.

It's the Daily Mail I'm taking issue with. Why is a celebrity choosing to have a natural birth worth reporting on?

Are we suppose to be impressed that even celebrities opt to have natural births?

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Theodorous · 09/05/2014 16:23

Give me a doctor and clean hospital over a filthy understaffed midwife ran hospital any day.

Cornettoninja · 09/05/2014 17:50

especially if your a not particularly fantastic actress who needs to rely on sex appeal to get hired

Tbf her longest running role has been the voice of meg griffin in family guy - that's been running what? 8/9 years? I don't think sex appeal matters much in animation.

RedToothBrush · 09/05/2014 18:06

If its not newsworthy, why have you started a thread about it.... ?

Catsize · 09/05/2014 19:20

Never heard of her. Am I now officially old and out of touch at 36?!

Chunderella · 09/05/2014 19:36

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kennyp · 09/05/2014 19:41

i don't think it was necessarily her choice to answer that question. ellen's target audience is 25-50 year old women, it's a teatime talk show and i guess that's what ellen's producers think the audience want to know about?

it's not as if mila k would have said "i want a totally unnatural birth with as many drugs as possible" i'd've thought.

the daily mail will print any old shite though. stating the obvious, obviously

Aspiringhuman · 09/05/2014 20:09

If it's in the Mail I'd imagine that the aim of publishing it is to produce another stick to beat (metaphorical) women who don't do it 'properly' and have medical intervention of some kind.

Alisvolatpropiis · 09/05/2014 23:15

Why does it make her "fucking vile", Chunderella Confused

honeycrest · 09/05/2014 23:27

Why is she 'fucking vile'? I haven't seen the interview but I just read the link you posted chunderella and she doesn't come across that way to me.

extraneous · 10/05/2014 00:03

what a odd comment Joylin. I suspect you'll find most normal people don't associate wanting a natural birth with "ha, you'll be having a hugely stretched vagina then" Confused

janey68 · 10/05/2014 00:15

A lot of projection going on here, methinks, when people can't cope with the idea of a woman wanting to give birth naturally and without being numbed up from the waist down, and have to resort to comments like 'bucket fanny.'

jaggythistle · 10/05/2014 07:31

Who?

weatherall · 10/05/2014 07:38

Some right nasty comments on this thread!

I'm glad she's said this- might raise some awareness of non ob gyn births in America.

The daily fail is of course always shite.

MrsGoslingWannabe · 10/05/2014 07:44

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Chunderella · 10/05/2014 08:49

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Cocolepew · 10/05/2014 08:53

I think her and Aston are sweet

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 10/05/2014 08:56

"A hugely stretched vagina isn't the image you want people to associate you with"

Because images of moving your intestines to one side to make an incision in your uterus and lift your baby out are just so alluring?

FFS, getting a baby out into the world isn't supposed to produce sexy images!

UncleT · 10/05/2014 09:04

Pregnant woman to give birth? Crikey, stop the presses!

Chunderella · 10/05/2014 09:05

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OiYou · 10/05/2014 12:17

Because images of moving your intestines to one side to make an incision in your uterus and lift your baby out are just so alluring? FFS, getting a baby out into the world isn't supposed to produce sexy images!

Grin

shucks, and I was hoping to sell the videos of my giant vagina birth to playboy Grin

Alisvolatpropiis · 10/05/2014 12:29

chunderella

She can think it is the right way for her. How on earth does that make her fucking vile.

Projecting a bit?

stopgap · 10/05/2014 12:34

I think it's because it is quite unusual over here. I'm an ex-pat and have given birth twice at a hospital with a birthing centre, and hence used a midwife, and I also didn't have an epidural. I seriously only know one other friend in the US who gave birth in this way.

Mrsjayy · 10/05/2014 12:38

celeb news innit we are all supposed to be waiting with bated breath to see how X or Y is going to plop a baby out, I love MIla Kunis but all i hear is meg griffin in whatever she is in Blush

Chunderella · 10/05/2014 13:24

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janey68 · 10/05/2014 13:34

Oh and of course no one ever gets misquoted in the media do they?!
FFS.

She most likely said something along the lines of ..'this is what I would like....' This is what feels right for me...' Etc
And why the hell shouldn't she?

Giving birth naturally with just a midwife and DH, no highly medicalised procedures, was right for me and anyone who has a problem with that can bugger off!
And I suppose the mila thing is newsworthy in that her view is fairly unusual in the context of U.S births which are usually treated as a medical procedure to be managed by doctors, anaesthetists and surgeons.