Thursday, February 12, 2009

Salma Hayek on Breastfeeding

This now viral video from Nightline of Salma Hayek breastfeeding an infant in Sierra Leone is quite touching, as she reaches out in an incredibly intimate way to a child in need while also offering the US a version of motherhood that is stripped of the sterility and artifice so often associated with raising/feeding children in this country.

Of course it's disheartening to read comments that continue to sexualize her and her breasts, even when she is offering such a pure gesture of outreach to a tiny, starving body. so weird!

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