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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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ComeOVeneer · 02/08/2007 14:15

Have just skimmed through thread so apologies if this has already been said. But in a nother magazine, she was quoted as saying she had been breast feeding, but has now stopped as she wants to have surgery including botox and this was not recommended whilst bf. SO I'd take a lot of what you read with a (big) pinch of salt tbh.

JeremyVile · 02/08/2007 14:16

Why thank you Mossy.

treacletart · 02/08/2007 15:46

Apologies - haven't read the whole thread. I was half expecting her to be advocating breastfeeding when I opened this thread. I'm a bit embarrased to know this - but in the last episode of Jordan & Peter the Baby diaries, she was having a go at Peter for thinking leaky boobs were revolting and telling him that's what they're for. Seems to me she could sadly have had words put in her mouth by SMA or a lazy journo. Whether she breastfeeds or not, she could have helped a lot of women breastfeed who might not have done otherwise and may very well have now put a lot of young women off. Wonder if OK will run a counter piece - there were some nice mag shots of eva herzagovina looking very glam breast feeding her baby in some mag that someone posted here the other day - here .

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boogiewoogie · 02/08/2007 15:56

Haven't read the whole thread but... she's talking to OK! magazine ffs. Does anyone who read OK! take things seriously from there?

aloha · 02/08/2007 16:03

She is not being misquoted in OK - she works WITH Ok mag - ie gets paid shedloads to be in it every week, and will have picture and copy approval of everything that is printed.
Women do breastfeed with implants - Paula Yates did - but she clearly had no intention of doing so. Her breasts are for everyone except her baby, apparently
And yes, she can feed her baby what she likes, but people are also entitled to criticise her publicly made comments and to point out the kind of damage her stupidity does to the health of the nation. I find it incredibly depressing that this horrible woman is a role model, but she is.

noddyholder · 02/08/2007 16:07

I was really shocked at her whole attitude to feeding even though I ff myself for health reasons Her attitude to the disposable teats etc was so wasteful and throwaway She definitely doesn't think before she speaks or is just horrendously advised.She is not a role model please tell me she isn't!

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 02/08/2007 16:07

To be fair to Jordan she is not the only person to discuss BF in OOK, I remember Geri Halliwell (oh the great sleb that she is ) talking about the breastfeeding police, or something along those lines.

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 02/08/2007 16:07

I think the environmental implications of what she said about those teats and bottles are far more horrific than the choice to bottle feed!

belgo · 02/08/2007 16:10

I remember Geri Halliwell saying that she isnot going to be one the bfing nazi who insists that everyone bf their babies well into toodlerhood

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lljkk · 02/08/2007 16:18

Jordan is free to think what she thinks and feed how she chooses, but how can a UK magazine publish those comments next to photo of her feeding her little baby with a branded bottle opposite an advert for the same brand of formula? Breaks the spirit of the Code, surely, if not the letter?

aloha · 02/08/2007 16:20

Geri Halliwell is a dimwit, she really is.

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paolosgirl · 02/08/2007 16:29

This is the woman who said that it didn't matter that Princess was a ginge, she would love her anway - and that making fun of someone because they were ginger was the ame as making rcist comments. Words to that effect, anyway.

The woman is not very bright, really...nd let's face it, OK isn't exactly highbrow!!

Cloudhopper · 02/08/2007 18:01

The ante-natal group I went to was an eye opener, because I got to mix with a very wide variety of mums of different ages and backgrounds.

I would honestly say that issues like breastfeeding are pretty much split along cultural lines. There were a lot of mums-to-be who said similar things to Jordan - along the lines of "Ewww, the thought of a baby sucking my breasts. My boyfriend thinks they are just for him." Many of the grandmothers were giving advice along the lines of "get him on a bottle as soon as you can, so he will sleep through the night".

That's why the pro-breastfeeding publicity campaign is so important. This presents a positive image of mothers using their breasts for the purpose nature intended. It informs them and helps them to at least see the other point of view. At least with a balance of viewpoints they can make their own informed choice, whatever that may be.

I find it really sad that SMA have found a mouthpiece in Jordan. Bizarre it may be, but wasn't she voted "Mother of the Year" in some poll? Role models are nominated by the people who want to copy them, not decided by themselves. I think Jordan should have been more careful, and I certainly don't think she is as thick as anyone might think. Her carefully orchestrated 'career' is at least testament to that.

Actually I think this is a calculated attempt on her part to say to the wider public of men "Don't worry, my breasts are still a sexual thing, despite having children". And be damned how much this sets back the huge amount of work done in the NHS to give people the facts, not to mention the millions of pounds spent promoting breastfeeding.

For this reason I think it is more a feminist issue than a breastfeeding one. It is about fighting the empty-headed sexualisation of everything female, and trying to minimise the damage done by soft-porn stars who are now assuming the place of role models for our daughters.

mm22bys · 02/08/2007 18:29

Why am I not surprised? Of course Jordan wouldn't bf!

Bubble99 · 02/08/2007 18:47

Of course Jordan wouldn't BF!

Bfeeders all have hairy ankles, don't they?

hunkermunker · 02/08/2007 18:50

How very dare you, Bubble!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 02/08/2007 19:11

IF her bazookers were for one person only, why does she insist on showing them to everyone at every available opportunity???

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milkmummy1 · 02/08/2007 21:25

completely agree with you honeymum, what a selfish statement. being in the public eye she shoudl set a better example to those mums out there. perhaps if more celebreties promoted BF then it might help to increase the rates in this country. hate it when i hear things like this!

Amelily · 02/08/2007 23:02

Late to this thread, sadly. Just read the OK article and Jordan actually says that "the thought of (bf) makes me feel really funny." But not the thought of someone cutting you open and shoving several pounds of silicone inside you, huh? It's a strange world out there.

vole3 · 03/08/2007 03:48

I didn't think that you could bf after enhancement or at least the surgery was more difficult if you did want the option.
Perhaps it's her way of assuaging her guilt about not being able to.

lazyemma · 03/08/2007 08:39

lol, I very much doubt any women are going to get their "health advice" from the pages of OK Magazine. Plenty of women think like Jordan do, and that's their business and their prerogative. Just because you don't agree with her views, doesn't mean she has no right to state them, or that OK magazine shouldn't be printing them. It is a celebrity rag, not a health promotion leaflet.

vole3 - yes, you can breastfeed after an augmentation. It's reduction surgery that makes breastfeeding more difficult.

growingbagpuss · 03/08/2007 08:49

i'm sure I read at some point that she had said she couldn't breastfeed because of the implants - I think it was in an article about Harvey and the miscarriage she had....

Odd this thread really - as there was one the other day where she was being heaped (well.... maybe not heaped) with praise for her loving attitude towards Harvey.... not sure the public face of Jordan could show anything else really...

The woman fascinates me in an odd sort of way -partly coz i can't work out the attraction. She is false, and untrue to herself, and clearly can't work out which of her 2 personalities she wants to be.... "Katie" or "jordan"