At least according to these high-power women.
We’ve all seen celebrities like Miranda Kerr sharing their blissful breastfeeding photos on Facebook. Mother and baby looking serene as they do what is so beautiful and natural and simple.
Except when it isn’t.
Because sometimes breastfeeding is painful and awkward and messy. Thankfully, there are some celebs who are happy to talk about the realities.
Acting legend Meryl Streep has said that when she was called up to accept a Golden Globe for Kramer Vs Kramer, her boobs were leaking through her white dress. It was 1979, she’d just given birth to her first baby, Henry, and she went to the ceremony wearing her wedding dress.
“It was a perfectly nice white silk dress,” she told The Graham Norton Show, “but the luncheon went on and I was breastfeeding and two o’clock came, three o’clock came, and boom! I started to lactate. In a white silk dress.”
“It was not good and I sat with my arms crossed over my chest. They called my name and I walked to the stage with my arms crossed and accepted the award one-handed, while still covering my breasts. They must have thought I was so odd. It was so embarrassing.”
Meanwhile, Zoe Saldana skipped this year's Golden Globes, even though her movie The Book Of Life was nominated, to stay home with her six-week-old twins Cy and Bowie. It sounds like things have been a little rough for the first-time mum, and she's not hiding it.
A few days ago she tweeted,
