It is a spicy topic when it comes to breastfeeding in public. Many people say that breastfeeding in public should not be allowed because it “disturbs” or “distracts” other people around. On the other hand, others support every mama breastfeeding their child in public because not only it is not a shame, a child comes before anything else!
Viral Strange has collected 16 pictures of celebrity mamas breastfeeding their babies in public to support other moms to do it with pride!
1. Blake Lively joked about how “the first Monday in May” looked a little different this year. Historically, that’s when she’d be attending the Met Gala, but this year, she shared a picture of her pumping breast milk for her newborn daughter who was born in February.
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In a 2015 interview with Allure, Blake referred to breastfeeding as a “full-time job” and recalled times she’d literally pull over on the side of the road to pump.
Advertisement 2. Mandy Moore has openly posted about her breastfeeding journeys with both her first son Gus and her younger son Ozzie. She has been particularly candid about struggling with clogged ducts and mastitis — inflammation in the breast which most commonly affects people who are breastfeeding.
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In honor of National Breastfeeding Week in 2021, Mandy posted on Instagram with a caption about her journey feeding Gus. “Breastfeeding is not always smooth sailing (clogged ducts, timing life around feedings, pumping for when I’m at work, etc…), but nursing this baby boy for the past nearly six months has been a beautiful, messy, and an oh so rewarding experience I will treasure forever. It goes without saying that #fedisbest and I’m grateful to my body and the tremendous support I’ve had around me (especially in the beginning days and weeks when I had no clue what I was doing) for allowing me this time to nourish my sweet guy.”
3. Olivia Munn posted a super vulnerable video on Instagram about her struggles with breastfeeding, and when she had low milk supply, she tried several tricks to increase it — everything from trying different teas to seeing multiple lactation consultants to even hoping the pillow she used would make a difference, but it took a toll on her emotions.
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Ultimately, she combo fed her baby Malcolm and shared the important message with fellow mamas: “Do whatever you need to feed your baby and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it. ❤️”
4. Keke Palmer opened up about the feeling of becoming a new mom and realizing you don’t even know where to start when it comes to breastfeeding — her experience was trying to search for tips on the internet and then ultimately finding a lactation consultant who helped her tremendously. 5. Halsey has shared a number of photos from their breastfeeding journey, specifically normalizing feeding in public places. 6. Jodie Turner-Smith discussed how she had originally just wanted to try to breastfeed her daughter Janie for six months, but ultimately ended up on a 2-year breastfeeding journey.
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“My boobs are deflated and reaching southward, but I wouldn’t trade a minute of this journey for anything in the world,” she wrote on Instagram. “Cheers to all the mummas on their breastfeeding journey and especially Black mamas — I see you!!!”
7. Ashley Graham opened up about how even though she exclusively breastfed her firstborn, she decided to stop breastfeeding her twins because it was no longer working for her.
“With my first kid, I was like, ‘I could only breastfeed. This is the right way,’” Ashley said on The Daily Show. “Then I had the twins, and I was like, ‘I’m not doing this.’ This is not working here… This is a lot of work.” The mom of three ultimately chose to formula feed her twins. “These little guys are so strong and so happy, so I don’t think we should be telling people how they should be feeding their kids.”
Advertisement 8. Serena Williams opened up about her decision to stop breastfeeding her daughter Olympia at 6 months, which she made for the sake of her tennis career.
In the documentary series Being Serena, Serena opened up about how she wouldn’t have been able to return to her tennis form if she continued to breastfeed. “What I’ve learned through the experience: Everybody is different, every person is different, every physical body is different,” she said. “For my body, it didn’t work. No matter how much I worked out, no matter how much I did, it didn’t work for me.” Serena ultimately ended up breastfeeding Olympia for six months. “Once I got to six months, I felt good about it. Then it was just emotionally letting go. I literally sat Olympia in my arms, I talked to her, we prayed about it. I told her, ‘Look, I’m going to stop. Mommy has to do this.’ I cried a little bit, not as much as I thought I was. She was fine.”
9. Kristen Bell discussed her struggles with clogged ducts and mastitis, even sharing a particularly harrowing experience involving her husband Dax Shepard sucking a clogged duct out for her.
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“I said to my husband, ‘I just need you to suck this out.’ We could talk about it. We could be weird about it, or you could just go ahead and nurse,” she revealed on The Ellen Show’s series Momsplaining. “He pulled it out. He had a cup next to him. He was pulling out and spitting into this cup, and I’ve never been more in love in my life.”
Advertisement 10. Kerry Washington opened up about something breastfeeding and pumping parents know all too well — the need to stop and pump while out and about. One part that might be a little, well, less relatable to us normies? One time she needed to stop to pump at a White House party under President Barack Obama.
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She recalled the story on The Jennifer Hudson Show last year. “I was nursing at the time, and I remember I brought my pump with me, just in case. And thank God, because at 2 a.m., I was like, ‘Can somebody show me a little closet where I can go and pump?’ Because I’m not ready to leave this party!”
Advertisement 11. Katherine Schwarzenegger posted about breastfeeding while her daughter Eloise was going through a growth spurt — a time when babies tend to want to feed a lot more frequently or cluster feed. 12. Ashley Greene shared that breastfeeding her daughter Kingsley Rainn was “one of the worst experiences” in the beginning and revealed she had trouble with latching and using a pump flange that was the wrong size for her breasts. 13. Cardi B shared some sweet moments after feeding her son Wave last year, which isn’t the first time she’s shared publicly. Of course, Cardi famously was seen breastfeeding in her 2018 music video “Money.”
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Before she had her first child Kulture, Cardi told Rolling Stone she felt apprehensive about breastfeeding and worried that her breasts were too sensitive.
14. Heather Rae El Moussa shared much of her early breastfeeding journey on her Instagram stories, explaining that she loves breastfeeding and the feeling of being skin-to-skin, but that it was “definitely harder than I thought.” 15. Ilana Glazer opened up about having a newfound appreciation for her breasts since being a mom, and talked about how she started supplementing with formula when her supply dropped — which was scary because it happened to be around the same time as the formula shortage last year. 16. Finally, Chrissy Teigen opened up about her breastfeeding journey with her kids, saying that she was lucky because Luna, Miles, and Esti all latched immediately, but she also supplemented with formula.
