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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Good for Alyssa! I nursed both my sons until they were 18 months old. They never, EVER had formula. It was natural and something I was and am still very proud of. I'm very disappointed in Wendy and how stupid she is here! I'm usually a fan of her, but here she's lost every ounce of my respect. Kudos to Alyssa! I have been and will always be a fan of you!
I fed my first daughter right up till she was 2 & beyond. It was a natural thing for me to do and I loved the mother~child bond that came with doing it. It became a problem when she was just comfort feeding & then I had to wean her off. It 'IS' a fine line. I get that but these women who comment and are opposed, do they have children themselves...?? See 'mamammia' is currently running a story on the hormones that are released when you become a mother, those actual physical changes that flood the brain. That's it.... That's all I've got because at 5.10pm late in the afternoon I've got nuthin'