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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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oliveoil · 02/08/2007 11:57

Peter has thankfully not worked since. God bless Jordan is all I can say.

what is kangaroo?

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 11:58

I know people with lots of daft ideas but you can't stop these ideas, you just have to filter them out. Jordan isn't responsible for people who want to look and be like her. You're responsible for yourself at the end of the day. Some women might breastfeed andT then go on to feed their child chips and crap, you can't control everything yet...

IntergalacticWalrus · 02/08/2007 11:59

But while she's allowed to spout such outdated biollocks,scores of impressionable women will follow suit. There are lots of girls who want to be just like her (sadly-whatever happened to ambition?)

For every article they print like this, they should show the other saide of the coin (I'm sure there are plenty of slebs who have breastfed) to make it more "balanced" Magazines like OK have to remeber that thier readership is often young and impressiohnable.

IntergalacticWalrus · 02/08/2007 12:02

I hear what you re saying, meandmy, but I think this rases important issues about how breastfeeding is promoted in the UK. (ie not very well)

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 12:03

Yes, some people choose not to breastfeed.

Yes, Jordan's got every right to say whatever she "thinks" (I don't believe she thinks, I believe words just fall out - although that said, I don't actually mind her, weirdly).

But I still think that by allowing formula to be advertised and promoted by celebs in this way, you're doing massive harm to bfeeding support and promotion in this country.

SMA...wouldn't...have...done...it...otherwise.

Would they?

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 12:04

Why aren't the impressionable being impressioned by all the positive influences if they are that impressionable it would be a fairly even split. You can't censor ideas because there are people about who will follow.

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 02/08/2007 12:04

there was a headline on a crappy, till magazine the other day which caught my eye-" i want my 11 year old to be the next jordan" and showed a pic of awoman with a kid with bleached blonde hair.

to say she isn't a role model is wrong.

gogetter · 02/08/2007 12:05

Olive - www.geocities.com/roopage/
Where you hold babe on your chest like a joey in the pouch - for premmies mainly.

'Thankgod!!' screams full-term Princess Tiiamii as she gulps the fresh air.
Live long oxygen.

IntergalacticWalrus · 02/08/2007 12:07

She is a "role model", because people can't see beyond the fact that she has loads of money, which is all people seem to want nowadays

(god, I sound like an old fart, don;t I?)

gogetter · 02/08/2007 12:07

Would Jordan actually be capable of BFing. Surely her knockers have been debilitated with all that silicone

oliveoil · 02/08/2007 12:08

there was a picture of the actress (I won't say celeb as she is an actress and actually does something) Maggie Grenfyll (sp?) breastfeeding her child, think she was about 9 months old or something

there was an uproar in America saying she should have fed her before she left home etc, it is private, I don't want to see breasts etc etc

the same thing would no doubt happen here sadly

yet Page 3 and those crappy lads mags are everywhere

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 12:10

Rebelmum, it's not as simple as people being impressionable. We live in a bottlefeeding culture. Women get the message that breastfeeding is something that should be done behind closed doors, "if you must", something to be sniggered at, because breasts are for sex/gawping at, that breastmilk is just about the same as formula anyway - just have a quick squiz down a thread about comments people have made to MNers who breastfeed - unsupportive MILs, friends, strangers, etc, etc.

There simply aren't the positive messages out there about breastfeeding in the same way.

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 12:12

Yep, agree, OO.

I did read a story about Kate Winslet saying she'd expressed milk on set for her DD - she and another actress (can't remember who) were pumping at the same time and could hear each others electric pumps.

duchesse · 02/08/2007 12:17

Hasn't Jordan has implants? Pretty much certain to put the kybosh on bfeeding anyway, surely? So whether or not she wants to is immaterial as she is unlikely to be able to.

kerala · 02/08/2007 12:22

Sadly Jordan is a role model for many, she was an idol for the younger secretaries at my office - hard to believe but true.

Saw a similar interview in similar mag with Amanda Holden. Purely nauseating imo lots of "I had a c section in high heels" type comments. Her reason for not bf was it makes the baby more "sociable". Always thought she was a real prat but that interview confirmed it.

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 13:24

But why doesn't that woman want her kid to be like Germaine Greer. There are positive influences out there too. I think the whole easily led argument falls down imho funny how no ones easily led to study say physics

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 13:26

Kate Winslet would be a better bet ..

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 13:37

I saw Amanda Holden being interviewed on This Morning - she was banging on about how fab it was to have her baby in a strict schedule (timed to the minute) - she really sounded an idiot.

Fern looked faintly horrified (and I would imagine that was her "cover-up" face, so I'd love to know what she was thinking!).

rebelmum1 · 02/08/2007 13:39

need an old fashioned shepherds crook to get them off

PinkChick · 02/08/2007 13:42

re the Op, may have already been said but i remember reasing when kate was pg with harvey & Jnr, she was told she could b.feed cos of the amount of silicone!, she apparently really wanted too

PinkChick · 02/08/2007 13:43

i READ she COULDNT b.feed...sorry terrible spelling there!

mslucy · 02/08/2007 13:49

Does anyone really think someone like Jordan would ever consider breastfeeding?

Her whole persona is based on an artificially constructed over sexualised parody of what it is to be female.

She frequently boasts how quickly she's lost her baby weight - by going on a starvation diet - so the idea of her doing anything natural or healthy is really rather unlikely.

I do not have a problem with her as she is what she is and unlike many celebs/public figures is refreshingly devoid of hypocrisy.

Surely she is first and foremost someone to gawp at - I'm sure even the youngest and silliest people out there would see this?

JeremyVile · 02/08/2007 13:51

My thoughts are

A) She is perfectly entitled to choose how she feeds her baby.

B) Cant understand the objection about the magazine printing her words, formula feeding is neither dangerous, illegal or immoral.

C) I wont judge her words based on someone elses interpretation of the 'gist' of them.

SueW · 02/08/2007 14:08

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mosschops30 · 02/08/2007 14:11

JeremyVile for prime minister I say here here!!! rah rah!!!