Is this worse than Closer magazine? The Sun article

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www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/5584391/mother-breastfeeds-5-year-old-daughter.html

There is so much wrong with the way the sun reports this, I don't know where to start....brave of Sharon Spink the woman featured though.

Why does it seem like it's acceptable to condemn and criticise extended breastfeeding families in the media, when this would not be acceptable (or legal) for other minority groups?

Can't link to full article as don't have sub, but it gets worse with so called expert opinions talking about psychological damage etc etc .... It's Closer magazine, take 2.

I don't know why I waste energy on such tripe but I feel

Just seen the This Morning interview has moved to Friday.

"Sucking her boob" I suppose, being a Sun article, we should be glad it didn't say "sucking her titties" but still .

My dgm bf my aunt til she was 9 years old, during WWII. Why would this be weird?

Although, yy for choosing to publicize it in the Sun.

Nowt to do with feeding but I am part of an 'alternative' music/dress type subculture (retro) and Sun/Mail journos (was a flatmate with one once) often propose their "freakshow" interviews via an agency with a bland name. They make out it's a sympathetic write up. Then the nasty article appears (e.g. with some folk I know "50s housewife freak" article when they're perfectly modern, they just wear old clothes!) after all is signed off.

Might explain how she ended up agreeing to the article. For all she knew at the time it was a nice cushy article for a parenting mag.

Yeah, I read something similar in the Guardian about a woman with an embarrassing medical condition who thought the article was going to be a sympathetic, awareness-raising piece and ended up in something along the lines of CHECK OUT THIS FREAK.

Hi ladies, thanks for the support on My Story.

The words in the Sun report were my own apart from odd word changes, however, I wasn't aware that they were going to add in the bit from the stupid psychologist.