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Jordan, her new baby and breastfeeding in OK magazine

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Honeymum · 02/08/2007 10:39

Has anyone seen the interview with Jordan? I looked through a friend's copy quickly. I was not pleased with what I read about breastfeeding. The gist was "My breasts are for one person only. No one is feeding off me. And anyway, Junior had formula and he's ok". Fair enough, that's what she thinks, silly cow, but did the magazine have to print it?!! What a struggle it is in this country to promote a positive image of breastfeeding with this sort of rubbish appearing in the press. Having said that they were more interested in when she would next be having sex.....
Thoughts anyone?

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MrsSpoon · 02/08/2007 11:32

Strangely enough I don't dislike Katie Price even although I disagree with much of what she does.

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 11:32

Rebelmum, I think formula companies should be banned from advertising at all.

IdreamofClooney · 02/08/2007 11:32

I suppose that the bottom line is that it is free speach - Jordan is as entilted to her opinion (that her breasts have one purpose - for men to oggle) as I am to mine(that my breasts are to feed my babies and that they also serve a sexual purpose)

If magazines such as OK were to censor what Jordan said then that would be an infrigement of the right of free speach and although in my opinion what she says is total crap and incredibly ignorant I think that she has a right to say it.

Was it Winston Churchill who said something like "I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" ......

Anyway I posted about a similar comment I read in Glamour magazine - the editor was talking to Myleen Klass about BF and told her that it woudl ruin her breasts that was the only comment - purely negative, with no positive to balance but then at least she was BF!

LadyMacbeth · 02/08/2007 11:33

Excuse all the typos in my last post - I do know where they are...!

welshmum · 02/08/2007 11:33

It is all part of the deification of celebrity in this country. Some of it is fun, some harmful. Hard to police though

bundle · 02/08/2007 11:34

@ showing label

IntergalacticWalrus · 02/08/2007 11:34

She's got 3 tits anyway, if you caount Peter Andre

Niecie · 02/08/2007 11:35

Disappointing that if she didn't just keep quiet about her breasts and how she feed her baby if she didn't have something positive to say. Sounds like it is a publicity stunt.

I suppose in her case they are something that are quite difficult to avoid - literaly!! They don't really need any more attention do they?

Filchymindedvixen · 02/08/2007 11:35

By ilchthemildmanneredjanitor ''does anybody else find the idea of breasts being 'for one person only' and that meaning your partner, just really sickening and disempowering(is that a word?)

your breasts are part of your body. your partner may enjoy touching them or looking at them but they are your body.
once you hand over 'ownership'of your body to someone else, then it's a slippery slope surely. How can no mean no when your body doesn't belong to you?

This is exactly what I was going to post! (so, no, you are not thinking too much )

Pruners · 02/08/2007 11:38

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rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 11:38

I guess its a thought to ban formula milk from advertising, but it's not harmful perse it's just not best. The problem is our culture rather than the formula manufacturers, there a useful back up and also we stop breastfeeding so early to go back to work so we need to put them on formula at some point. The problem's more complex.

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 11:38

I guess its a thought to ban formula milk from advertising, but it's not harmful perse it's just not best. The problem is our culture rather than the formula manufacturers, there a useful back up and also we stop breastfeeding so early to go back to work so we need to put them on formula at some point. The problem's more complex.

expatinscotland · 02/08/2007 11:38

PMSL, Pruners!

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 11:38

oh i did it twice

Tinker · 02/08/2007 11:39

lol at IW

Tinker · 02/08/2007 11:40

Oh, I do love a good Jordan slagging thread. Then you get someone coming on saying, stop that it's nasty, someone on here knows her in REAL LIFE. So?

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 02/08/2007 11:41

fmv-glad it's not just me!!!

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 11:45

Rebelmum, if there was more information about the possibility of returning to work and keeping breastfeeding and more support from society and employers, more women would do it (although I think paid maternity leave should be longer anyway as well). Not everyone who goes back to work gives formula - I haven't, with either boy. DS1 bfed till nearly 17m, DS2 is still going strong at 18m, despite me being back at work since 9m and full time since 12m.

If we stopped formula being advertised, there'd be less of a formula culture in this country.

And, please, nobody give me any of that old bunny about how if we stopped formula being advertised, you'd take away a woman's right to find out about what was in formula and ability to choose between them. There's no way the shite they put in their adverts or on their boxes helps anyone know what's in the formula these days anyway.

NineUnlikelyTales · 02/08/2007 11:48

I wouldn't dream of giving you an old bunny Hunker (fab expression).

IntergalacticWalrus · 02/08/2007 11:50

And OK magazine should stiop printing such tosh like this and there should be a more positive reperesentation of breastfeeding in the meeja.

In fact, OK should just cease production altogether. Tis a waste of paper.

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 11:53

Hmm, i just don't think stopping advertising is going to change the culture. I think putting information out there and taking a sabbatical from work is more useful. I don't think it's viable to pay women longer not to be at work. Someone has to pick up the tab and it will mean employers wont want to employ women of child rearing age.

oliveoil · 02/08/2007 11:54

I suppose it is up to her what she does/thinks, she is a glamour model (), not a role model for NCT or whatever

I know people who didn't want to breastfeed, each to their own

meandmy · 02/08/2007 11:55

tbh iv not seen the mag but no matter what any one says i bf my healthy 14mo for six weeks only and couldnt have cared what anyone else said to me at the time or what celeb was for against bf/ff as it didnt suit me as a person! but i know i gave my dd the best start in life!
and bf/ff is PERSONAL choice!

gogetter · 02/08/2007 11:56

What does Jordan actually do?? Apart from selling her stories weekly about her trials and tribulations with her mammoth bust? Peter Andre as well? Has he actually worked since mysterious girl?

Can you imagine if she tried to kangaroo hold her new baby? Poor thing wld bloody suffocate.

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 02/08/2007 11:57

i don't this is a formula issue tbh but rather a feminism issue.

it is now considered to be empowering to take off your clothes for men to ogle , to remove all your pubic hair,to say that your tits are only for your dh, to wear clothes emblazoned with the playboy bunny etc etc etc.