Gisele Bundchen Thinks There Should Be A Universal Breastfeeding Law
Posted on Tue Aug 3rd, 2010 10:10am PDT By X17 Staff
images courtesy of Harper's Bazaar / Cedric Buchet
We love getting a peek at her gorgeous magazine covers and photo spreads, but after having a baby less than 8 months ago, is she really the authority on parenting?
Gisele Bundchen graces the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, and she chats about her son Benjamin, her dreams of living on a farm, and she credits getting her model body back in shape to breastfeeding.
Gis tells the mag, "I think breastfeeding really helped. Some people here think they don't have to breastfeed, and I think, 'Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?' There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months." Of course, Gisele was modeling in a bikini just a few months after giving birth, so not everyone is going to have her luck...
So what about giving birth at home, and not in the hospital? "Not for one second did it cross my mind that I was not going to have my baby at home," she says. "I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this -- so why can't I do it?"
Where does she see herself down the road? "I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place. I will have horses, my kids will be riding, and there will be chickens and ducks. I don't know where it will be, but I have the vision of trees and a lake and mountains in the background." Hopefully her hunky hubby Tom Brady is in that fantasy somewhere!
Is Gisele right about the breastfeeding? Or does she have no business talking about this?
We love getting a peek at her gorgeous magazine covers and photo spreads, but after having a baby less than 8 months ago, is she really the authority on parenting?
Gisele Bundchen graces the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, and she chats about her son Benjamin, her dreams of living on a farm, and she credits getting her model body back in shape to breastfeeding.
Gis tells the mag, "I think breastfeeding really helped. Some people here think they don't have to breastfeed, and I think, 'Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?' There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months." Of course, Gisele was modeling in a bikini just a few months after giving birth, so not everyone is going to have her luck...
So what about giving birth at home, and not in the hospital? "Not for one second did it cross my mind that I was not going to have my baby at home," she says. "I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this -- so why can't I do it?"
Where does she see herself down the road? "I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place. I will have horses, my kids will be riding, and there will be chickens and ducks. I don't know where it will be, but I have the vision of trees and a lake and mountains in the background." Hopefully her hunky hubby Tom Brady is in that fantasy somewhere!
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