Have you missed Kim Kardashian at all? We haven’t been writing about her that much since she gave birth to Saint West last year, even though it doesn’t really feel like she’s gone away that much. There’s still news about her and her family and Kim’s still active on social media and her subscription app. Saint West is now about seven weeks old, and Kim is reportedly refusing to make any kind of big public debut until she loses more of the baby weight. I suspect that the first time we see her on a red carpet following the birth might be for Oscar night? Kim has come out for the Oscar parties before, and I think a three-month pause from the red carpet might be long enough.
Meanwhile, we still haven’t seen photos of Saint West. Which I don’t mind – I suspect the kid is beautiful (everyone says he looks like North) but I don’t hate the fact that Kim and Kanye aren’t throwing out endless images of Saint. But Kim is still talking about him a lot! In a new post on her subscription app, Kim talks about breastfeeding and how she’s doing and all of that. Some highlights:
Breastfeeding is time-consuming: “I’m about two months into breastfeeding and I’m not gonna lie — it can be time-consuming. For some reason, North hates when I feed the baby, and she lays on my lap so Saint can’t be right in front of me to eat, LOL! I’ve started to include her: Sometimes I will pump and have her feed him the bottle. That totally worked! She loved helping me, as opposed to my attention being off of her, and now she is my little helper.”
She’s full of milk: “I feel super lucky that breastfeeding is easy for me and I produce a lot of milk — so much that I’ve taken over my mom’s freezer with tons of milk!”
Nipple shields: “I use a nipple shield most of the time when I feed. I find the baby feeds better, and it allows me to never get irritated nipples or anything because they’re protected by the shield. The hospital suggested shields to me, since at the beginning I found nursing super painful and difficult, so I took some home and never looked back.”
Public versus private breastfeeding: “I know some people find breastfeeding such a private, personal experience, while other people are very open and even breastfeed in public. Now that I’m a mom, I say whatever makes you comfortable goes. I still personally wouldn’t breastfeed at a restaurant with a bunch of people I didn’t know staring at me. I’ve seen this before and remember tweeting how shocked I was. Now that I’m a mom, I’m not that shocked, especially if you have a few kids and can’t leave to breastfeed one kid in the bathroom while leaving the others at the table. But I still personally wouldn’t do it, unless it was an emergency situation and I was fully covered. I would however breastfeed in front of my girlfriends. I think it’s such a natural experience and I’m not shy about that. I know so many people get backlash for posting breastfeeding pics, but I don’t mind them! I know people have their opinions on how others should live their lives and I try not to be judgmental anymore — this is simply just my opinion.”
Because I’m not a mom, I had no idea what nipple shields were. It’s exactly what it sounds like – it’s like a stripper’s pasty only there’s an opening for the milk. The more you know! As for Kim’s thoughts on public versus private breastfeeding… I’ve never had a problem with women breastfeeding in public and I have never understood why some people find it so controversial and distasteful. It’s one of the most natural things in the world to see a woman feeding her child, but so many people (men, mostly) get really salty about it. As for Kim specifically… I think it’s cute that she has some sense of modesty about breastfeeding in public, but she’ll literally show us everything else.
Oh, and while I’m not grossed out about breastfeeding at all, I did feel a pang of sympathy for Kris Jenner because her refrigerator is full of Kim’s breastmilk. Poor Kris. I bet the freezer is full of vodka though.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Kim’s Twitter.
Yeah. she has class. Her breasts are only for porn and photoshoots.
Good one!
Such a shrinking violet.
I think it’s more of a “I don’t want paparazzi to take pics of me with my boobs out if they’re not paying me $1 mill”.
Can’t believe I’m gonna say this but… it makes me uncomfortable to classify what she did as porn. Yes she made a sex tape with that other idiot, yes she profited of it once it got leaked and well.. Kardashian empire began but lots of people make sex tapes, and they are not porn stars!? I don’t know.
Lost my train of thought. But let’s focus on what Kim is doing nowadays rather than dragging her big butt over something that happened 10+ years ago. She gives us plenty of material to make fun of.
that being said, I love cleavage and all (not to that degree but to each their own), so that’s hardly what bothers me most about her. To me it’s really what she says and her voice. And she’s so vapid. But I can’t fault her for what she’s saying here, it sounds completely fine to me.
Meh she got paid to have sex on tape, that sounds like porn to me. Also it was not “leaked” she and Ray-J sold the rights to Vivid productions, thats why people can buy the tape for at home “enjoyment” otherwise she could sue and have it taken off the market.
So funny and right on target.
@Mimz people call her porn star because her tape was calculated ,it’s not that it was leaked by accident. She leaked it herself.
Kim was friends with Paris Hilton at this time and saw her transforming from rich girl to celebrity because of a sex tape. She just copied Paris steps to gain fame,attention and money.
mama kris and her leaked the tape and the tape is probably one of the highest profiting sex tapes around, so I think it’s okay to say she’s a porn star. I’d respect the K Klan’s game more if they just owned how their bread is buttered, kinda like how Amber owns it in terms of her days of being an exotic dancer.
@MIMZ – Agreed 100%
Also, she talk less and type more. She came across very likeable in this post. Her voice is ridic.
If she breastfeeds in public, she’d have to redo all the powder and highlighter she puts on them. She doesn’t want her boob make-up messed up.
I’ll give her credit where its due though, it is sweet that she’s finding ways to help North’s jealousy over the new baby. Also, North’s expressions sleigh me…that furrowed brow. She always looks like she wants to punch somebody.
She clutches her pearls for breastfeeding when she is the pee queen stink and pink!?!
I doubt she breastfed at all. These over indulgent people have servants for their every whim.
Why is it that Kim Kardashian is one of the (few) celebrity moms whose thoughts on pregnancy and all things related actually sound quite chilled and non-judgmental?
Exactly! I thought I would never agree with her on ANYTHING.
And why is her Mom’s freezer full of breast milk? Does she (do they) live with Kris?
White Russians. OH MY GOD I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST TYPED THAT
They (at least, she and the kids) live with Kris because they never finish a house renovation. I’m sure Kris has more than one fridge – she just needed to move some of the liquor bottles over.
They have lived with Kris for some time now while they do neverending work on their house.
The never-ending remodeling is just so Kanye does not have to live with her. It would cramp his style.
@embertine lol. gross but lol
lol @ embertine. Man, I’m so glad I don’t drink White Russians anymore…
I thought the same thing. She sounds reasonable and down to earth.
Breast feed Khloe’s ass.
Because she has a good ghostwriter. Does any of that actually sound like Kim speaks?
And she is the queen of judgementalism. Even just clips from that blasted show illustrate that. She’s always going off on people, she’s unlikely to have suddenly become a mellow earth mother.
While I don’t doubt that she can be an a**, that show is scripted. And this isn’t the first time she’s said something reasonable about the topic.
Kris to her blog writer: “like, I want to like, talk about how hard it is for new moms to like feed their babies in public and like I’m totally ok with it – oh, and that I still look sexy”
Kim is the most stupid, vapid, superficial and annoying woman on earth, but I genuinely don’t think she’s a bad person.
No, she’s not a bad person, but she’s not really a good person, either, you know? No, she’s not hurting anyone, but what is she contributing? What does she add to the world?
I know a lot of people who fall into that category and none of them are people I would say that I admire or even seek to form a friendship/relationship with because in the end, they don’t make my life better, they have nothing to offer, really.
Not a bad person? She is a liar and will use anybody to get what she wants with no remorse. She is an awful person,
@Kitten
I didn’t say she was good either. I don’t like Kim one bit and I think her schtick has plenty of stuff to be criticized. But I wouldn’t use the same words to describe her and Charlie Sheen. Kim has done nothing to win heaven, but Charlie has a spot in the lowest ring of hell with his name.
@Josefina-I completely understood what you meant and I agree with you. I was just pointing out that I often hear people say “(s)he’s not a bad person” as if that gets them a gold star, when really it’s the bare minimum that a person can be without putting forth any effort. Arguably, it requires much more thought and intention to be a willfully malevolent asshole.
In fact, “not bad” roughly describes the majority of the human population, but we all know that there are still plenty of “not bad” people who suck at life lol.
But yeah, I wouldn’t even put Chris Brown in Sheen’s category–that’s how bad I think he is. I truly think that Sheen is just a terrible, awful, malicious, piece of garbage.
Why do I doubt that she’s actually breastfeeding?
If she’s pumping out a lifelong supply of breast milk, it’s for her and not for the baby. They had an episode where she was trying Kourtney’s breast milk on her psoriasis. But this is Kim Liar Liar Kardashian, so it’s quite possible that all of this is just a carefully spun and ghostwritten story for PR. The cozy little domestic picture, complete with a Nori story, is just a tad hard to believe. Nori does not seem attached to Kim even now. She would be worried only if her favorite nanny was dealing with the baby, and I think they hired new ones for him.
Oh, I’m totally with you on this, J. This is a woman who insists on 10 hours of sleep a night and who has used her daughter as a prop since her birth. Also, she never thought twice about posing in the nude for anyone willing to pay her or have her boobs hanging out in public every day before. It sounds like Kim is trying to rehab her image since her star is fading and I guess she feels like she has to become more relatable to the masses. The “cozy domestic picture” is a joke since we know she lives with her mother and her husband lives at his own place and leads a double life with Riccardo Tisci. Also, her vanity is the only reason she hasn’t been seen since she not only feels she needs to lose more weight but also she probably has to recover from whatever plastic surgery she had post-delivery. Like you said, the statement doesn’t even sound like her. There were no words like “like”, “literally” or “amazing” mentioned.
This. Sounds like she’s pumping out crap her PR people wrote for her. She doesn’t strike me as someone who would sacrifice a thing for another person, and breastfeeding requires a bit of sacrifice. And the bit about not breastfeeding in public sounds crafted to make sure that she doesn’t offend any men or conservative women. I find her ability to spread for porn yet not breastfeed in public very anti-women.
Jwoolman, Lisa and Josephine: you’ve all saved me typing up a long rant – I completely agree with all the excellent points you’ve made. I don’t believe Kim wrote this, either, and she likely is trying to re-brand herself. Her younger sisters – and even the older one, to some extent – have taken full advantage of her temporary retreat from public appearances, to take their profiles up several notches.
Ditto to all of the above.
Well, maybe not quite “anti women” because this is just a rule that she’s made for her own body. If she was preaching to other women about how disrespectful, immoral, and unclassy it is for women to not hide their breastfeeding in public, that would be a probem… Not to mention very side eye worthy coming from her.
As a mum of 4 who breastfed all of mine anywhere and everywhere I actually don’t find her views all that shocking. She’s saying it’s what she’s comfortable with. Lots of women don’t feel comfortable feeding in public for many reasons.
I actually like that she revisited her former views about feeding in public.
I agree! With my first I was too self conscious to feed in public- I would go to my car or a bathroom with a lounge. I always supported moms publicly breastfeeding, but personally was uncomfortable. With my second I was much less worried and fed the baby everywhere. It is all about comfort level and your family’s needs, and it is normal to have your feelings on the issue evolve.
Agreed. Whether she said it or a ghostwriter said it, it is an intelligent measured response. Worlds of difference between saying “I personally don’t do it because it makes me feel uncomfortable” and “other people shouldn’t do it because it makes me feel uncomfortable.”
And some women are blessed with easy breastfeeding, generous supplies, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t wean early, but it’s totally conceivable that she is breastfeeding now.
This is a woman that constantly shows off her body parts and she’s nervous about breast feeding in public?
Besides, why even make that comment when she’d never take the baby out in public to begin with? Until some one offers money.
I nursed my 2 children for 3 years EACH, and find it really hard to believe that Kim is breastfeeding. For one thing, she is too selfish, and wouldn’t want her fake boobs to be stressed out. Also, I think she professed to be uncomfortable nursing in public because she’s not nursing! This way she’s off the hook, and can maintain her big lie without being caught out. No one will question that she’s out and about and not breastfeeding Saint (his name sticks in my craw.). This is the Kardashian way.
Agreed. She didn’t say moms shouldn’t breastfeed in public, she just said SHE personally didn’t feel comfortable doing it. She also didn’t say she was shamed into not doing it.
I think she’s fine with exposing her body in photoshoots and *ahem* video(s), but I think it’s because she still views her body as a sexual commodity, rather than a biological, life-housing one that’s given birth twice. Giving birth isn’t sexual and “hot” so she doesn’t want to parade that around. That’s my take.
We’ve already seen every nook and cranny, Kim. Now you get shy about a perfectly natural thing like breastfeeding your baby?
yeah it’s a little counterintuitive. She’s fine with exposing her body sexually and publicly, but gets all leery when it comes to exposing her body biologically and publicly. Okay.
I’m glad she isn’t judgmental but I kind of feel like anyone who even reacts to a woman breastfeeding–shocked? She was shocked? Really?–in public is being childish. And the judgment is so misogynist! Women take their clothes off for men=cool. But lift your top for a baby? You’re an exhibitionist or somehow imposing on other people…just, no.
I just remember being exhausted and desperate for a place to sit and nurse my baby that wasn’t a toilet stall. Nobody ever said a word to me, but I wouldn’t have taken it well if anyone even dared.
I wouldn’t have minded people seeing my breasts, but my babies got so relaxed feeding and seemed so vulnerable in that moment that I wanted to protect them from public judgement. But I did breastfeed in public, came in handy on a few landing planes to sooth them, despite a giggling 20-something hipster sitting next to me one time.
She sees herself as a sexpot and breastfeeing in public does not feed into that image. If you are not calling her sexy or glamorous, forget it.
You have to read between the lines. She won’t do it in public because… she’s not doing it, most likely. She tried to spin stories about breastfeeding Nori and wanting to courier her breast milk to the kid from France when she went with Kanye, but none of it really made a lot of sense. I suspected that at most she tried breastfeeding in the beginning but didn’t really like it and had stopped long before the trip to France. Nori would have been far more comfortable with her if she had done it, but instead Nori had this “who the heck are you?” look on her face when Kim tried to do mommy bonding poses for the cameras for at least the first year and a half.
Kim might be more interested in breastmilk now if it can help her psoriasis (did her experiment with Kourtney’s milk ever work?), but I don’t know if she would be willing to focus on her son long enough for breastfeeding. Kim is interested in Kim. Breastfeeding a baby means altering your schedule to fit the baby’s needs, and I’m not convinced Kim would do that.
Is Kim continously pumping that she has so much milk that it is overtaking the refrigerator? And what is the purpose of having that much milk. I get you need an occasional bottle now and then, but she isn’t going out for any length of time. Something just doesn’t add up.
I had a freezer full of milk with my first. Literally. I just had so much it was more comfortable to pump then have it go to waste. And it meant others could feed my daughter or my husband if we were out. It’s not that unusual.
I had an emergency supply of expressed milk in our deep freeze, just in case. I ended up being hospitalised with kidney stones when our baby was four months old and that stash meant my husband could take care of the baby at night so I could rest. It’s not unusual, and definitely handy to have!
I was hospitalized for kidney stones a week after giving birth! Didn’t realize it happened that often. Definitely more painful…
I get all that as I also breastfed and had extra on hand in case needed. Kim is either going incognito when she goes out or does not go out at all and so would not need someone else to feed Saint for her. I had to go back to work after 6 weeks and therefore needed the supply. Just saying.
I was luck to produce an abundance of milk. I could feed my kid and then pump 8 oz out of each side. I didn’t feed him expressed milk, but I expressed the milk for my own comfort.
I generated a huge stash with my second. At six months, I was able to go to pumping only once a day at work and stop altogether by nine months. He still got breastmilk at daycare until he was like 15 months old. Assuming she does actually have a substantial stash already, she may be saving it in anticipation of when she does start leaving him for longer period.
Wow, it really sounds like she’s matured some. Her thoughts on it sound completely normal. Good for Kim?
She is the queen of tmi. Her daughter is cute but always looks p.o.’d in photos. Daddy’s girl. She already knows who her family is, poor little thing. Please stop sharing Kim, your boobs got all the attention they needed on your sex tape. You got what you were looking for and we’re paying the price of it. So go take a seat, feed your baby and stfu.
“I still personally wouldn’t breastfeed at a restaurant with a bunch of people I didn’t know staring at me. I’ve seen this before and remember tweeting how shocked I was.”
“But I still personally wouldn’t do it, unless it was an emergency situation and I was fully covered.”
Kim Kardashian, sex tape and all kind of nude pics&frontals leading lady said this. Breastfeeding in public is embarrasing and she can’t tolerate the thought of not being fully covered in front of strangers.
The jokes are endless.
I AM CRYING 😂😂😂😂
I agree with her, it’s a personal choice to breastfeed in public or not for whatever cause. If that makes you uncomfortable then don’t do it, and viceversa.
Yeah me too. It’s completely fine and normal. To each their own.
That being said, I think it’s absurd to expect women to feed their children in bathrooms or at home in the dark, but where I live, moms are putting it all completely on display. Like. Just take your shirt off already. I’m not a mother, and it doesn’t bother me in a sense that *it could be seen as sexual* because that is gross, but I don’t see why some mothers need to get the whole breast out and have the shirt unbuttoned to the navel while feeding. I’m sure there’s a happy medium? Like. I don’t need anyone to cover up – I actually think it’s endearing to see a child nursing, but I don’t think there’s need to put it all the way out.
If you don’t look, the mother has all the privacy in the world.
If she wants to “unbutton to the navel and pull it all the way out”, she may do so. You have the free will to turn your eyes away if you dislike it. If she doesn’t care, why should you?
I think this woman is the Queen of Vacuous, and she also has shown everything she owns to the world, but still…I think breast feeding in public is a personal decision, and no one should get shade for saying it politely. I also think that not breastfeeding is a personal decision, and it quite judgmental to say that only selfless people can breastfeed, implying that those who don’t are selfish. I tried for all three kids and made it a week before bleeding, cracking body parts caused me to stop. I wanted to pass out every time I did it. And how it that discomfort good for my babies. Really, women love to criticize other women. This is as bad as all the women who say that Kate M can’t bond with her baby if she works ten hours a week, implying that working mothers don’t bond with their babies. What a load of crap.
No, the fact that breastfeeding would be uninteresting for someone entirely self-absorbed doesn’t mean that all women who don’t breastfeed are self-absorbed. There are a multitude of reasons why women don’t do it, and everyone has the right to make their own decision for whatever reason, including Kim. My generation was the one for which doctors and family and friends convinced our mothers not to breastfeed, that formula from a bottle was better. I remember the hushed curiosity when we discovered that a woman a couple of blocks away with a large family was breastfeeding the latest baby… We couldn’t really imagine it! Plans were hatched by some to catch a glimpse of it, as I recall. The only one totally unimpressed in our group was her son… My mother did not breastfeed and she was neither self-absorbed nor selfish.
The difference with Kim is that she lies so much and her stories don’t seem to hold together. It’s an interesting game to try to figure out if anything she says is another lie or a rare truth. So the probability is high that she’s lying about all of this and that she lied about breastfeeding Nori beyond possibly a short trial period. The woman seriously expected us to believe she was going to ship her breast milk home for Nori from France via air! Really. That made sense to her as a story to prove how dedicated she was. She claimed Kanye shut that down. She must have learned from reactions to that, pointing out that breast milk can be pumped and frozen, and nobody in their right mind ships it home to California during a week in Paris, so now her story is that her mom’s coolers are overflowing with the stuff… People did point out that Kim showed no sign of leakage ever, despite her alleged rapid weaning of Nori for the trip, but I suppose that could be luck.
So this is all about Kim and her pathological lying, not about anybody else.
I breastfed any time or place my kids wanted to eat and my oldest didn’t wean until 4 years. Only once was I asked by a store manager to go the restroom to feed. I politely declined and he just went away. Women should do whatever they feel comfortable doing and everyone else should support their choice.
That made me giggle. “Um, m’am, would you please go into the restroom while you’re breastfeeding your baby?” “No.” “Oh. Ok. Bye.” Good for you.
So glad you told the store manage to shove it.
I breastfeed anywhere, including restaurants, and I have never had a problem, although in restaurants I do it very discreetly out of respect for the other diners.
I do not think I would take kindly to someone confronting me about it.
Nipple shield are important because some nipples are like belly buttons: you got innies, flats and outies. A shield will help the baby latch on to flat nipples. I used them and I never could have breast fed without them. They are a straight up miracle.
Just saying, but with all the pictures that have been put out there with her nipples showing, I don’t think she has a problem with flat nipples.
And many times after the baby is an established nurser, flat and innie nipples pop out of their own accord. Nipple shields are a huge boon in the beginning though.
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I actually agree with Kim. While I don’t see a huge issue with public breastfeeding, I do take issue with exhibitionism. There are many ways to discreetly breastfeed in public. There is no need to whip your entire boob out for the world to see.
“Exhibitionism.” This is misogyny. It’s not exhibitionism for a woman to use her breasts to feed her child. Women’s breasts are all over the place. They’re on billboards–all but the lightly shadowed nipple–for goodness’ sake. They’re falling out of tiny bikini tops. They’re marketed to men, and marketed to women. They’re EVERYWHERE. So when you say you take issue with “exhibitionism” because some women whip their “entire boob” out in public–what are you referring to, exactly? The fact that a breast is exposed to feed the child? Because women’s breasts are exposed all the time FOR exhibitionist purposes. Do you take issue with the nipple? Some women have large nipples that will always be visible. Do you take issue with the fact anything at all is visible? Some babies do not tolerate fabric near their faces or maybe it’s simply hot outside.
“Exhibitionism” is the wrong word to use. Especially in American culture. You are surrounded by exhibitionism. I can’t fathom why you’d look at a nursing mother who hasn’t covered up to the level you deem appropriate and think, “Hm, I spy me some exhibitionism in this FLOWING SEA OF EXHIBITIONISM EVERYWHERE and I’ve decided that THIS is the time I’ll be offended!”
Misogyny. You might not see it that way, but this is misogyny.
I don’t think exhibitionism is the wrong word to use at all. I should be able to take my 10 year old out to lunch without some woman whipping her boob out in front of him. If you want respect, give it! I have NO issue with breastfeeding be it public or private. I simply stated that it is entirely possible to discreetly breastfeed in public. There ARE mothers who get off on the attention they receive when exposing their breasts. Whether the attention is positive or negative. In my opinion, these women are the ones making a mockery of public breastfeeding. I am not saying a breastfeeding mother should have to go hole up in a bathroom stall or go back to their vehicle to feed their babies. That is a ridiculous sentiment that undermines a mother’s right to feed her child. It is not some huge ordeal to use a burping cloth or small blanket to cover an exposed breast while breastfeeding. One could even just wear a oversized jacket or sweater that minimizes exposure. I have come across many breastfeeding mothers in restaurants, stores, even a zoo lol. All of those women at least attempted to maintain a bit of modesty. It was no big deal at all. My irritation begins with the women who insist on fully exposing their breasts in public places with absolutely no consideration of the people, especially children, around them.
Well, I don’t go with my boobs out when I am hot, I do not dress to attract men, but because I like this or that.
I am careful because I work with teens, not to show cleavage and see trough blouses. I am less “buttoned up” when I am not working, but I maintain some kind of image.
When I am out I see breast feeding moms that are discreet. Breast feeding is wonderful, but do not get practically undressed for it when you are in some place with strangers, just because you are proud.
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This woman, I bet someone wrote the answer for her, especially is it is an email interview.
I’m with Mimi. We can breastfeed covered by a blanket. No need to put them on exhibit and for every woman who claims they should be able to put their boobs on display in public, there is a child who should be able to go shopping or ride a bus without seeing boobs. I breastfed in public and I’m pretty sure nobody ever saw my boob – either one of them.
For the record, I would rather not watch women breastfeed topless either. But not every woman is able to nurse discreetly. Like I said, some babies do not tolerate fabric on their faces and if it is warm, covering up can make it uncomfortable for the baby to breathe. Maybe the mother put on a shirt that she thought would work for breastfeeding only to realize that it doesn’t.
But none of that should be of your concern. If I happen to see a woman breastfeeding when I’d rather not, I simply look away because I’m an adult, not a teenaged boy or a man who tolerates women as sexual agents only. I don’t accuse her of exhibitionism or make a fuss over protecting my child’s eyes.
I’m not some warrior for breastfeeding mothers. But the fact that you can’t recognize your own misogyny is disturbing.
@greenweenie. Cheeses – you do have an opinion …not my own opinion, but you’re entitled to it. As is everybody else, but you don’t want to hear those do you ?
You talk about misogany And “internalized contempt of women”, then a little while down the line you compare the breast-feeding co ntroversy to racial disparity. Seriously?
You sound like a First year psych student. and a hostile one at that.
You obviously don’t have kids Mimi. You sound like a sad lady.
You obviously didn’t read my entire comment. I have a 10 year old who I breastfed for 13 months. I breastfed in public several times. I covered myself so that I could maintain my modesty and be respectful of others. As far as your “sad lady” comment… nope! Great husband, awesome kid who is a honor society member and an elite baseball player, lots of friends too! My son has seen all 3 of his aunts breastfeed but has never seen their breasts. Funny how that is entirely possible lol
@Upcake: Mimi very clearly said she has a kid, and she doesn’t sound sad at all. Since when is anyone who has a different opinion than yours automatically “sad”? Maybe your lack of reading comprehension is actually making YOU sad.
@Mimi: I usually don’t say this in public because others feel they have a right to be nasty, but I agree with you. I am VERY pro-BFing. I exclusively breastfed three children for over 14mos each. I would probably still be breastfeeding my youngest (she’s 3yrs old) if she hadn’t weaned herself. 🙂 None of my children ever had formula, and I even had so much milk left over from 2 of my babies that I donated it to mommies who had production issues. When my oldest was a few months old I helped nurse my great-nephew for about a week when my niece got ill and had a drastic drop in her milk supply. However, I feel that completely exposing one’s entire torso to breastfeed is simply unnecessary. I happily BF’d in public–I just made sure to wear garments in which I could easily feed my babies while still keeping covered. And I never felt inconvenienced. My 2nd HATED having a blanket, but if I just wore a loose blouse that covered the top of my breast but not her face she didn’t mind. I’ve BF’d while in military uniform, in restaurants, on buses and planes, sporting events, church, museums, shopping malls, libraries, my workplace breakroom, you name it. I have just found it best to be respectful of the people around me by being discreet while still exercising my right to breastfeed where and when I want. What’s wrong with being happy with middle ground?
no children=sad lady???
Mimi is not sad. She just doesn’t agree with you. Sad is someone who puts people down for having differing opinions. Name-calling and put-downs are for people who don’t have a valid argument and refuse to see another’s point of view. You don’t have to agree with her, but you don’t need to make enemies of people you can’t get to align with you. You make it sound like it’s all or nothing – either no breastfeeding in public or breasts hanging out for the world to see. There’s a lot of other options in that spectrum.
And it is not misogyny to prefer a modicum of modesty. If men could make milk and peen-feed, I wouldn’t want to see their peens on display either.
I don’t think Mimi is sad. I think she has just internalized contempt for women.
“There ARE mothers who get off on the attention they receive when exposing their breasts.”
Oh honey no. You are very wrong about that. Feeding a baby isn’t about any kind of sexual exhibitionism. It’s about the baby.
I am not wrong about that. Let me clarify that I did not say all mothers or even most mothers get off on the attention. Just that some women turn breastfeeding into a three ring circus. It is not necessary to expose your entire breast while breast feeding. Some women simply enjoy the reactions. For example, the facebook post that went viral. That woman came across not as a advocate for breast feeding, but rather an attention seeker who has no respect or consideration for other people. Why is it so hard to cover up a little? Just a little! Lets take the regular adult out of the equation. I do not want my son to see some strange woman’s breast hanging out while eating his lunch. I don’t mind him seeing a breast feeding mother. I would simply say to him “she is feeding her baby” and leave it at that. No big deal, right? It becomes infinitely harder to explain to a child why a strange woman has her entire breast hanging out of her shirt. Would you be okay with some stranger walking up to your child and showing them photos of nude women/men? Probably not, right? I am pro breast feeding and even support a woman’s right to breast feed her baby in public. I just also happen to think that a modicum of modesty, propriety, and consideration should be a part of that process.
Agreed!! I’m not bothered by my boys seeing breasts in the context of breastfeeding. When they see my sister feeding my nephew I just tell them baby is eating and that’s that. I guess some parents are more opposed to nudity of any kind.. It is true that some babies will not breastfeed with a blanket or cover. My niece wouldn’t. And while I would avoid going out into public if that were the case for me, my sister-in-law was a single Mom. So what is she suppose to do? Not run errands? Stop going out? Why have we been taught our breasts are shameful anyways? We are so blind to the fact that some women are coming from different circumstances. I wish ‘supportive’ rather than ‘judgemental’ was the social norm. That just doesn’t seem to be the case most of the time..
I think there are some small groups of breastfeeding activists who like to make a big show of staging nurse-ins and all that in response to alleged rude behavior on the part of store employees and the like. I don’t think people in general are as worked up about public breast-feeding as some of the activists would have one think.
I hate how the traditional values crowd hides behind the “protect the children” argument to defend sexism. Seeing the breasts of a nursing mother isn’t going to scar a 10 year old any more than seeing a chubby shirtless man mowing the lawn in the summer or a shirtless man at the beach. But I’m sure these Very Concerned Women For America aren’t morally opposed to that. The real issue is not the children, it’s the parents and their moral code that requires female modesty. Let’s be honest. If you don’t like showing your breasts while feeding your baby in public, you’re free to keep them covered. Like female modesty? practice it. But you and your child aren’t entitled to a world where nobody publicly does anything you’ve been taught to believe is unclassy or not wholesome enough. Also, the comparison of female nipples to a male penis is a false equivalent. Penises are genitalia. Nipples are not. And since both sexes have to keep their genitals covered in public, there’s no sexism in people not being able to show penis or vagina.
For the people on the thread who shame the breastfeeding crusaders, let me just translate this into terms that are easier to recognize:
You: “I’m fine with black folk eating at the whites-only counter, but these black folk who are sitting here taking up all the seats are just rude. This is disrespectful. Where is the courtesy? Look, they’ve even barred the door to the diner!”
The thing is those disrespectful and inconvenient boycotts and sit ins and whatever else are the things that make it possible for black folk to eat at the whites-only counter everywhere. You thinking it’s fine won’t change anything, and you’re standing in the way of the people who will. Your comfort and convenience are not the aims of those demanding lasting social change.
Okay, I’m getting off this thread now. Said my piece all over it, mainly because I’m shocked at how many women use terms like “exhibitionism” with respect to women breastfeeding!
@Jaygee. I worked at a museum with a large childrens’ play area. Many, many mothers nursed their babies there while their older kids played. I don’t remember most of them. I do remember one woman who came in at least once a week with her kids, sat on a backless bench in the middle of the room, stripped to the waist and nursed with a creepy smile on her face. For this woman and the rare birds like her, I most definitely believe there was an element of exhibitionism. That’s not misogyny to note, either, at least in this case, it’s observation.
I never felt comfortable nursing in public. Had I committed to nursing clothes, maybe, but I just felt so exposed.
@Mimi, I know what you mean. I have absolutely no issue with breastfeeding in public but honestly I tend to roll my eyes at those viral FB posts or breastfeeding sit-ins I see in the news sometimes. While I appreciate that breastfeeding moms still get unwelcome comments and glances and that’s wrong, it gets tiresome when it has to be blown way out of proportion and turns into a circus of self-righteousness and martyrdom.
It absolutely is misogyny and sexism. Wanting women to hide breastfeeding stems back making them stay home to care for babies, out of the workforce. It’s about controlling women and diminishing their status in society by shaming them.
Do you vocally oppose shirtless males in public too?
They have nipples and breast tissue (often more than women!) and yet every day of my life I am accosted by hairy ugly shirtless men. There is never opposition to that and their being shirtless serves no purpose at all. When a woman is FEEDING A BABY, there is clearly a purpose.
Are you raising your 10 year old to attach shame to the female body and believe that women should hide natural parts of raising a child? Good work! Just what we need…
Nobody here ever said to hide breast feeding. Even with a blanket or whatever covering your breast, we are still very aware of what you’re doing and couldn’t care less. I myself am not offended by a breast feeding mom as long as she attempts to at least partially cover herself. I don’t care if you breast feed in a restaurant, museum, school parking lot, or wherever else. A woman has EVERY RIGHT to feed her baby when he/she is hungry. Not everybody wants to see your boob hanging out. Everyone keeps asking “why should we cover up”? Let me ask you this… Why should we have to see your boobs when we don’t want to? And to those of you saying, “don’t look”, trust me, we didn’t mean to.
thank you, there are many times I am disgusted by men who take their shirts off in public. The human body is rarely all that attractive and I’d just as soon not see anyone’s. But I recognize that it’s not my business to tell people to cover up and the LEAST appropriate situation is telling someone to cover up when she’s performing a biologically vital function
This is so ridicolous. There are many different ways to breastfeed, dofferent boobs, different babies. When he’s hungry or cranky, I have to whip oit my whole boob to feed my baby, because he won’t latch easily. I guess I’m not the only one. But I should let my child go hungry so I don’t offend, in a world where T&A are available and visible everywhere and part of practically every commercial on earth? Come on. Don’t like it, don’t look.
I know I’m the only one who admits to loving her but I do. What she said sounds so normal.
I totally am obviously is someone is feeding in public. Like I just see a lady with a blanket over her and it doesn’t cross my mind she’s feeding her baby. I mean it’s not like you see anything. What’s the big deal?
The key is not to see anything. In restaurants I have seen women pull out their full breast to feed their child. That is gross to me and should not be done in public. I get that it’s a natural and beautful thing, but keep it for you and your family to see. Nor everything needs to be a statement.
So breasts are gross? They are a body part that has been sexualized by men so women are meant to feel ashamed when it comes time to actually use them for their original purpose. A baby doesn’t care about social mores and is hungry when they are hungry. Feeding a baby at a restaurant when everyone else is eating makes sense. And the few seconds a breast is exposed before the baby starts feeding isn’t going to scar anyone. Women shouldn’t feel ashamed to feed a baby.
KK was certainly ok with exposing her entire body for sexual purposes so pretending that she is embarrassed to do it when feeding her child is horseshit. I thought she had implants anyway, so I am not sure how you can breastfeed with implants.
^^@Nic919, Thank you, so tired of hearing people talk about exhibitionists and women “pulling it out”, etc. It’s a biological function. So sorry it doesn’t unfold along your personal standards of propriety. Because that’s what a nursing mother needs to concern herself with.
You have got to be kidding me? Don’t look!
we will see her next week maybe … kanye west release his new album and Yeezy season 3 … i guess, i don’t know …. OR she will make her come-back : 1) on vogue cover with her kids …. 2) at the MET gala ..
The irony…
After having breast cancer, I felt like saying “if anyone in this town has not seen my breasts and wants to, let me know.” It just became “normal” to walk around with one breast exposed in front of hoards. It was sort of crazy because they were fanatics about covering up your other breast, like, ooh, now nobody will notice the one that’s exposed. But my point is, it’s just a breast. And that’s what it’s FOR. I don’t understand why we make it into such a huge thing when a mother breast feeds in public.
It shouldn’t be a huge thing for a woman to breastfeed in public. Most people have seen breasts or have them. It shouldn’t be a big deal.
It is a bit odd that our society tends to worry about children seeing a breast during breastfeeding but not so much about children viewing all the explicit violence on TV shows, including newscasts, and in video games. It seems to be an especially American thing. We have much greater tolerance for violence, blood and gore.
I just don’t get why people stare if they don’t like what they are seeing. Just look in another direction and let the woman be.
Here’s the thing: on a personal level, I completely agree with you. I wouldn’t give two effs if my kid saw a mother feeding her baby with her boobs.
Where it gets tricky for me is that I think that parents who, for whatever reason, aren’t comfortable with their kids seeing breasts on another woman shouldn’t necessarily have to expose their kids to that.
That was poorly articulated but do you see what I’m getting at?
I respect mothers’ right to feed their babies when and how they please but I also respect other people’s rights to not have to see that if they don’t want to.
I was trying to come up with an example and all I could think of was when people eat on the train. Some (disgusting) people think it’s cool to eat a sandwich on the train. They lick their fingers and touch the handrails, etc. I find it repulsive and vomit-inducing. They have the right to eat on the train–there is no rule that says they cannot. Yet I wish so much that they didn’t because they are spreading germs and making people like me want to hurl as I’m forced to smell their pastrami sandwich at 8:30 in the morning.
Maybe that wasn’t an apt example..
Just forget it.
*coughs*
Carry on….
Kitten, I get what you are saying. Unfortunately it’s a fine line and for some people that line is finer than for others.
Except then those people are raising children who have grown up with breastfeeding being a hidden/shameful/secretive thing.
The adults are raising more generations of kids who will be the adults who look down on women who BF in public as ‘gross’, ‘unclassy’, ‘attention seeking’.
A kid will see it once or twice and it will then be normal. Explain ‘the mother is feeding her baby, that’s where the milk comes from and that is what breasts are for’. End of.
Start shielding them from it makes it a bigger problem.
But most of us as children have seen a woman breastfeed at least once. How many of us were scarred by it? Parents are going to feel however they feel about it, but I don’t think the public should always have to cater to parental beliefs about what behavior is ok for one sex (male nipples? perfectly fine.) but unclassy, improper, and disrespectful for the other sex (female nipples? Jesus save our babies from these unsophisticated exhibitionists!)
well, it’s a good time to explain to kids that sometimes women have to expose their breasts in public. I sympathize, I understand a lot of parents raising their kids in religious cultures aren’t comfortable with that. But it needs to be a social norm. Just like when immigrants come from other cultures, they need to adapt to the social norms of their new countries in general ways (they can’t expect women in the West to walk around covered head to foot, for example, regardless of their expectations for women in their family).
I wish my fridge was full of Vodka.
Just like most things in life…people love to over share every detail of being a mom. I don’t disagree with anything she says. I also don’t understand why if you can cover up a tad in public, why not? I was at the mall and this lady lifted her shirt over her head pretty much and both boobs were just out and then she put a baby on one of them. She never covered up the other. I was puzzled. It’s not that I find it disgusting or shocking, I just don’t understand that level of it! I feel it’s like the typical new parent over share. I don’t get the over sharing, and I have a baby! I also don’t have Facebook because it’s this fake world that is full of drama and overexposure (past experience). I don’t understand breastfeeding pictures on Facebook?! I feel like it’s the humble brag situation. Like the ‘mommy wars’ crap. I don’t even understand why you think people want to see that picture? Or, why do you want people to see that picture? Seems like an odd thing to post, but I’m a private person. Everyone is different with breastfeeding.
THANK YOU! where has the class and sophistication gone? Cover it up!
Realitycheck, I feel bad for you.
A woman feeding her baby isn’t a situation for you to judge and assign rankings of ‘class’ to. If you think it is, you’re the unclassy one.
Internalizing the same old sexist ideas passed down from my ancestors will make me more sophisticated? Omg, who knew! Traditionalist Lemmings Society, here I come!
Lex – please don’t feel bad for me or sad for me or anything of the ridiculous things women say when someone doesn’t agree with the way they think. Please don’t twist my words around, class in this context is not used as a social standing, but more behaving in a decent respectable and stylish way. If you need to make a stance about breastfeeding and have to draw attention to yourself, then fine, there is nothing wrong when women do it discreetly. Key word here is discreet, do you understand?
It seems like everyone has to share everything and also, if you don’t agree with someone who wants to share everything, you are a misogynist, a sad person, a hater, etc.
It wouldn’t hurt people to have a bit of respect for others’ point of view. Some people don’t want their young kids to see an adult woman’s breasts. How is that wrong?? They may have a different point of view than those who think it’s fine. But it’s like an agenda: I don’t care if my breasts make you uncomfortable, I’m going to breastfeed right in front of your children. Screw you!!!
A real lack of respect for other people, when I see people insist that the world must not only see, but appreciate, the beauty of their breasts while breastfeeding.
Exactly Jib, and I do think that some people who make a big deal about “I breastfeed anywhere, at any time, in front of anybody” are almost daring people to have a reaction to them, so they can be outraged. One woman I know had to tell a bunch of us how she breastfed at the Thanksgiving dinner table in front of the whole extended family. (I would breastfed in front of a bunch of male prison inmates before I would do so in front of my father or brothers, ha ha.) Another friend of mine saw a woman breastfeeding a kid at Walmart one time while walking down the aisle with her whole shirt open, exposing both breasts and her whole abdomen and also somehow talking at the top of her lungs – don’t tell me she wasn’t looking for attention or a reaction. There’s attention-seeking people in just about every group of people you could think of these days – why would breastfeeding women be any different? Not every woman or mom is a saint.
BTW I wish people would stop just calling other people they don’t even KNOW “misogynist” or “racist” like has been happening here lately. It’s tiresome and tends to diminish when those things really occur. Go tell people who mutilate their daughter’s genitals they’re misogynists, not people who don’t want to look at your nipples in Market Basket.
Any time you dissaprove of a woman doing something that you don’t dissaprove of a man doing, or label a woman with qualities you consider negative for doing something without labeling men who do it the same way, you are being sexist. That same argument is true for racism and other forms of discrimination. People aren’t obligated to be respectful of discriminatory beleifs. By the way, a person doesn’t have to know you to know that something you’re saying is sexist or racist. And no, just because a woman doesn’t submit to your more traditional moral code doesn’t mean you’re being disrespected as a human being. The whole “Female genital mutilators are the only real sexists” argument is about as idiotic as the “violent kkk members are the only real racists” argument.
All these “one time, I saw a……” are anecdotes of personal and individual encounters. They’re so shocking to you that you recall them years later, when you’re commenting on an article on the internet. That alone shows you they’re the exception to the rule. So I don’t know why conversations about breastfeeding always go there, like exceptional or uncommon behavior is a major concern we all need to be wary of. “But what about…(insert event that’s about as rare as Haley’s comet) or that one time in band camp when (stranger I’ve never met and know nothing about) did THIS?”
Okay. Cool story, but not one that is particularly relevant to a conversation about the sexism ingrained in social norms.
Call people names often enough – or even once in some cases – and watch them ignore everything else you have to say.
…I really like how she is dealing with North’s little envy of her brother…it shows she understands that she’s a mother..& yea its a stupid comment…but some of the moms I see…between their cells and their work…their kids barely get side eye…
I have a 4 month baby and I feed her on demand. So I will feed her where we are when she’s hungry and I’ll cover up with a muslin.
However I would never feed her in the toilet. Would you want to eat a toilet?
Thank you for saying this. Exactly. Why should your baby have to eat in a BATHROOM?
Yeah agree – even in those parents rooms at shopping centres. They’re always in the same place as the toilets (i.e. they stink) and there are gross toddlers being changed and such. Not a nice place to feed!
I’ve fed in toilets before, and was annoyed and irritated the whole time. Just wasn’t in the mood to be a social warrior I guess, so sat there and mentally added it to the list of things women shouldn’t have to deal with but do.
I think her politics are on point. SHE doesn’t feel comfortable but she’s not telling YOU what to do. Bingo bango. Kim is so good at staying neutral, you gotta admit she’s bright.
I will never admit she is bright. She’s not. She just has a lot of bright people working for her.
Which is… say it with me now… a smart thing to do.
Sorry but no. The only smart person in that family is their evil mother Kris. Seriously, the rest are all airheads. Kim has been trained for this lifestyle by her mother since birth. She doesn’t have two brain cells, stupid woman.
@jenniferjustice. Exactly. Hiring good people doesn’t make you smart. It may indicate you acknowledge you aren’t capable of handling your own matters, or are PR savvy enough to know someone can spin nearly anything, but it doesn’t increase or identify your level of intelligence. Kim’s an absolute idiot (judging her by her interviews). shes fortunate and lucky and shameless, and may even be hard working, but a smart person she is not.
Whatever makes you comfortable. If you think it’s gross to breastfeed in public, don’t, and don’t watch the people doing it. Simple as that.
So she won’t take her breast out in public,that’s new.
I agree with everything her ghost writer said, I hope someone reads it to her.
Lol, she will prob see it in her google alerts.
It’s more than obvious she did not write that. She does do her own tweeting though because those are always filled with “omg” or “like” or “literally” and stuff like that. She is trying so hard to make us believe she’s a hands on mom. We know she has a night nurse, day nurse, and two nannies. Who is she fooling?
I would pay somebody to burn that damn beige unitard!
I have an absolute hatred of all things Kardashian but I can’t fault her here. This time, she sounds like a regular mom. I know there are people here that are saying “but you did a sex tape and nude photo shoots” but this isn’t the same. Idk why some women are particular about breastfeeding but some are… I know several ladies, friends of mine, who would have boobs out, leg slits, played strip poker at parties, had no inhibitions about sexuality, etc, before we all had kids and then all of the sudden get the willies about pulling a teet out to feed their babies in public. You can’t explain it because everyone’s different. Me, I’m the opposite. Jeans and t-shirt everyday, until a date night and then cower at the click of my husband’s camera phone because he’s saying “please let me take a picture, you look so sexy! I’m not gonna see you like this again until our anniversary!” Lol.
Pro tip: wear v-necks, take a receiving blanket, use one of those satchel thingies where the baby faces you and you’d be surprised at how discreet you can be. And absolutely tell anyone to piss right off if you’re asked to go to the bathroom to feed. 🙂
I think she’d change her mind if she was getting paid to do it.
^^^ Bingo!
Are the shields a brand new thing? I’m wondering why the baby nurse Kim hired for Nori or even the people at the hospital wouldn’t have suggested them before if she’s telling the truth about having such a problem with breastfeeding initially. Kim never said anything about having trouble breastfeeding Nori, though. Assuming she really did…
Really? She doesn’t hav problem displaying them in every single picture, so she obvs wants them on display…hmm..don’t get it 😄
She’s acting like Saint is her first child. Didn’t she use nipple guards with North?
Yeah since when did she become a “modest” person? She takes her clothes off the minute someone waves a big fat check in front of her. Who is she kidding? I’m sure a new nude photo shoot will be in the works soon.
Okay, cool, that’s her prerogative. But her choice is also hilariously filled with hubris.
I took it as she thinks it’s a special bonding experience that she doesn’t want tainted by any ogling. Not that ‘ogling’ always happens when you breastfeed publicly, but you can’t control how strangers view it. I chose not to do it in public because I had seen other women breastfeeding in public receive unwanted attention..It isn’t wasn’t for the sake of modesty. And I know that Kim is superficial and all..but she is my favorite Kartrashian. Don’t ask me why!
Except there is plenty of ogling by strangers when Kimmie poses naked for magazine covers and photo spreads….
But I also can see that women might want to make a distinction between what they do for male sexual attention and feeding their child, explaining why some women who ordinarily let it all hang out with wild abandon become reluctant to breastfeed in public. Different contexts.
Yep different contexts. I’m far from a conservative dresser, I sunbathe topless with no problem, a lot of strangers have seen my boobs but if I had a kid I suspect the idea of people ogling while I’m feeding my kid would weird me out in a way that it never does otherwise. I’d feel it was violating the kid somehow. I don’t think any woman should be made to feel uncomfortable if she chooses to feed publicly, even if they do it completely topless in whatever public place they choose. They’re just boobs and I don’t have a lot of time for the idea that you have to defer to people’s unreasonable squeamishness over something so normal (especially as very very few of these people ever have an issue with topless men) but I can understand a woman choosing not to herself if that’s what makes her comfortable. After all shouldn’t the comfort of a mother be important?
Because she will only parade her self for fame and money?!
Mm..More like she doesn’t seem like a judgemental person.
North’s hair always looks like it’s pulled back too tightly.
Everybody has different levels of comfort. Some won’t even do it in front of family, others will whip them out anywhere. Each to their own. I’m not sure I believe she’s breastfeeding though, I think that may have more to do with her uncharacteristic shyness on this issue. She’s happy to pose stark naked and do sex tapes, I really think if she was breastfeeding she’d exploit it for the paps as she does everything else.
…it’s her choice to make, and she has the right to make it for her own reasons.
God didn’t deny me the ability BF and give this CYNT the ability to have her waste it. The world had ended,
She (or whomever) sounds reasonable. Not all women are comfortable with their breasts being out in public.
On the other hand… Ewww, the thought of feeding your baby in a public bathroom is FAR more disgusting imo than to whip it out at the table. The fecal matter you and the little one are breathing in…a nipple at the table is better than that any day.
On another specific hand…a bunch of people have already seen her breasts anyway BFD.
I gained 70 lbs on a sturdy shortish frame when I was pregnant. Strangers wondered if I was carrying triplets, or more. Breastfeeding on demand was extremely important to me, and while I don’t often lunch at ivy, I did have to feed my kids in public at times.
Super awesome trick. I was more sensitive about the look of my post-preg belly, so I wore supportive nursing tank tops. Then another shirt over top. Lift top shirt, pull tank down over breast, and if the kid’s head is right there, not one millimeter of skin shown.
That said, I find nothing wrong with a woman exposing any amount of her breast to feed a child, no matter how old. No one complains about breasts when they are sexualized.
I’ve known many young ones who can’t stand having their head/face covered while feeding. Also, many mothers want to be able to look at the face of their baby as they feed. It can be an intense bonding experience.
A friend’s baby was born with some awful lung issues and sometimes had trouble breathing. Her mama had to watch her while she fed to ensure she was still breathing properly and placing something over her face during could have further impeded her breathing anyway.
Wonderful if it works for you but when other people use the “JUST COVER UP!!!1!” line, it is irritating.
I’m the only one in my family who is fine with public breastfeeding. My family is extremely conservative and, most days, I wonder what planet beamed me down. It drives me crazy to hear my brothers bitch about this, because they think it is disrespectful. I didn’t have the good fortune of being able to breastfeed my own. Here’s what gets me about their perspective. They think it exposes their kids too much………..The hypocrisy in my own family kills me, because I know during hunting season my nieces and nephews are out with their dads looking to clear the woods of Bambi’s offspring. They also just plop their kids down and let them watch whatever. Now, I may sound judgmental, but that is their choice. Different strokes for different folks. Kids aren’t like a cell phone where you can always have a private “conversation” or plug them into the wall to recharge. I think mothers should be able to nourish their little ones in whatever way is comfortable for them. Breasts get too much attention for the wrong thing, but they are functional and propriety is cultural. Definitions of this are inconsistent.
to each to their own as long as they are able to breastfeed that’s what matters.
North is so cute, I would like to see Saint too, only because I love baby pics. I’m always curious to see ( don’t know why) what features the child has and who they take after. Obviously they change as they get older but just from a genetics standpoint I like to see them at different ages. Like George and Charlotte otherwise I have no interest in BRF.
I would love to see North’s hair loose and out, it looks so tight and pulled.
There are pics of Nori with her curls wild and free. They seem to all be with her dad, though. When she’s with Kim, they tend to be tightly pulled back. She’s young enough that I would imagine she would be screaming if it were uncomfortable, though.
Considering how much breast surgery she has had, I find it hard to believe she’s capable of breastfeeding.
Okay, so she personally wouldn’t breastfeed in a restaurant. Yet, she had no problem sitting in a restaurant with Kourtney & Khloe sniffing each other’s panties. *rolls eyes*