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Watch Alyssa Milano promptly shut down this talk show host's anti-breastfeeding nonsense.

 

Actress and mother of two, Alyssa Milano has had an impressive career since she first appeared on stage at age seven playing everyone’s favourite singing orphan Annie.

Recently, the 43-year-old added a new title to her already overflowing resume: breastfeeding advocate.

Milano, who says breastfeeding her 16-month-old daughter Ella has been “one of the greatest joys in my life” has copped a lot of flack for her efforts to (shock! horror!) normalise breastfeeding.

Here’s a perfectly natural and sweet picture of baby Ella’s dinner time that appeared on her mum’s Instagram recently:

 

“I was surprised by the reaction and I was surprised that I then was put in this position of being a breastfeeding advocate — which I love, and I take that job with a lot of responsibility,” Milano told talk show host Wendy Williams when she appeared on The Wendy Williams Show this week.

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“But it was kind of shocking that [people] were so opinionated about something that’s supposed to be so incredibly natural.”

Turns out, Williams has a few of her own fairly strong opinions on breastfeeding, mostly that it should be done in the privacy of one’s own home or, er, vehicle.

“I don’t need to see that,” Williams said.

“I just don’t want to.”

Milano hit back: “Would you eat under a blanket?”

“I would go to the car, not on the bench in the front of the big-box store,” Williams replied.

 

Milano didn’t take kindly to Williams’ unsolicited parenting advice or anti-breastfeeding nonsense, questioning why Williams’ felt more comfortable looking Miley Cyrus’ semi-bare chest than at a woman feeding her child.

“So for you maybe you’ve sexualised breasts, that that’s okay,” Milano said referring to an image of suspender-clad Cyrus on the big screen.

#freethenipple

“Yes, they’re more sexual than a feeding thing,” Willams said.

“I’m a mum also, breastfeeding is only a particular amount of time. The rest of the life your breasts are sexual things.

“They’re the funbags!”

Milano, admirably side-stepping the funbags gaffe, very calming countered that, biologically, breasts weren’t intended as sexual things and that, in fact, women all of the world consider breastfeeding to be a normal function of their bodies and then moved on with the interview and her life.

Though not before making on final, nail-in-the-coffin quip:

“I mean you’re lucky the baby’s not here, I’d whip him out and feed him right on this show.”

We doubt these two will be hanging out at mother’s club any time soon.

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