Gisele Bundchen, Jaime King, Gwen Stefani, and Miranda Kerr are among the celebrity moms who have helped glamorize breastfeeding recently — and now, with her buzz-inducing mom-and-baby photo image included in a spread for Glamour, cover girl Olivia Wilde has joined their proudly lactating ranks. “Breastfeeding is the most natural thing,” she told the magazine, regarding the pose in which she’s wearing a Roberto Cavalli dress and Prada shoes while nursing her naked infant son. “I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast.” Wilde added, ”Being shot with Otis is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn’t complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that.”
It was a fitting message coming
from Wilde, film star and former cast member of “The O.C.,” who seems to
be a champion of maternal health around the world, judging by her appearance
at UN Global Moms + Social Good Conference this past spring. The UN
World Health Organization (WHO) encourages breastfeeding for at least
six months, and Wilde’s son is already 5 months old. The timing of the
image couldn’t have been better: We’re in the midst of World Breastfeeding Week,
during which the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, with the
support of WHO and UNICEF, is busy promoting the health benefits of
nursing in 175 countries around the world.
Wilde’s Glamour photo has been enthusiastically received on Twitter, where she’s been called “stunning,” “glamorous,” and “my hero.” It’s also where Wilde herself thanked the magazine for “knowing there’s nothing indecent about feeding a hungry baby.”
In the Glamour photo caption,
Wilde notes that she is happy with the message her breastfeeding image
sends — but also admits she doesn’t always look so picture perfect. “It
felt like we were capturing that multifaceted woman we’ve been
discussing — that we know we can be. You can be someone who is at once
maternal and professional and sexy and self-possessed,” she said. “[But]
I mean, I certainly don’t really look like that when I’m [typically]
breastfeeding. And there’s usually a diaper involved.”
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