Politics | 11/12/2008 4:45 pm

Salma Hayek: 'I Can't Stop' Breast-feeding

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Salma Hayek has an addiction that involves a breast pump and her baby.

The 42-year-old actress and executive producer of "Ugly Betty" gave birth to her first child, daughter Valentina, on September 2007, with PPR CEO Francois-Henri Pinault. Apparently, Hayek has been breast-feeding Valentina ever since.

Fox reports that Hayek said to Style magazine: "I’m like an alcoholic. It is like, I don’t care if I cry, I don’t care if I am fat, I am just going to do it for one more week, one more month, and then when I see how much good it is doing her and I can’t stop."

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Yes, well…when Ms. Hayek’s child is old enough to pull down her shirt and say, “All done!” it’s time to quit. That’s the cut-off point in my family.

By Ms. Dee on 11/12/2008 5:08 pm

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Ms Dee, I have to say you are always right on! This site is really becoming more and more fun!

By sibelle daubigne on 11/12/2008 5:33 pm

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Haha! One fan! Thanks sibelle! I love this sight. You’re bound to find others who are right on, too.

By Ms. Dee on 11/12/2008 5:43 pm

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I breastfed my kids till they were between 14mos and 2 yrs old (the last one was 2). There is no reason for her to stop at one, that’s ridiculous. Do people stop allowing their children to use bottles at one? No.

By DeBúrca obj on 11/12/2008 5:53 pm

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yo momma!!!!! right—-only 10 year’s ago, ‘extended’ nursing was considered a ‘pathological’ problem by both shrinks, and the PH.d’s—-no longer—-now? it’s ‘O’tay’. hard not to be offensive—-but adult men clearly benefit—-am i saying ya should be ‘cows’—-no—-rather hoping Big Pharma will cease killing me—-spend $$$ on ‘what’s in mom’s milk’? ——from what i’ve seen (and the ‘scientific-method’ starts by hunch)——human milk may be very important—-cure depression—-cancer—-best to not ‘second-guess’ mother nature——learn——

By gulliver fourmyle on 11/12/2008 8:49 pm

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In some countries it is considered bad parenting to nurse a child less than 2 years. Certainly less than 1 year.

By DeBúrca obj on 11/12/2008 10:37 pm

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LOL De, i bet you cannot turn everything GREEN into milk like Salma does! She could feed a lot of people too!

By sibelle daubigne on 11/12/2008 6:12 pm

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relax—-20 year’s ago this was considered ‘abberent’ behavior—no more—-now, women are ‘pushed’ to nurse, and not just their own—-anyone’s—-for long as they lactate—-seems to protect both—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 11/12/2008 7:10 pm

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No, it wasn’t “aberrant” behavior 20 years ago, though you could say that it was in the 50s. In fact 20 years ago breastfeeding began to make a come back and was most often done by the most educated women. Breastfeeding was the only way to go until around the 50s when we became obsessed with synthetic EVERYTHING. The benefits have been well known for years now, but although it has been known to be a fact that breastfed infants have higher on average IQs ( I think around 8 pts), only recently did they discover why. There is a chromosome, which most humans have, that responds to the fatty acids in breast milk, which triggers the brain to develop faster.

By DeBúrca obj on 11/12/2008 10:45 pm

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that’s Good—-i expect breast-milk found vital—-in many areas——

By gulliver fourmyle on 11/12/2008 11:35 pm

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What is abberent behavior is someone like you still looking for milk! Get over it! Cut the cord!

By sibelle daubigne on 11/13/2008 7:44 am

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apologies for ‘wide-data-base’—-comes in handy, ya should get one—-J.P. Morgan, robber-barron-surpreme, attributed his longevity to a pint/day of ‘human-milk’—-you truly missed my point—-it has already been noted that human breast milk May have properties of medical benefit for adults—-‘immune-enhancement’, ‘anti-depressant’——nobody actually knows at this point—-I’m not ‘looking for milk’—-simply suggesting Big Pharma start looking at it—-so what’s your beef?

By gulliver fourmyle on 11/13/2008 3:17 pm

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Funny Story - I was the last generation that did not nurse, my mother didn’t, my two older sisters didn’t, non of my friends, well one, did, so I didn’t. Didn’t seem like a big deal, and it was nice to hand the babies over to my husband. I had 3 healthy boys, they grew fine, they were not any sicker than any other children, But my middle son was very colicky so we put him on a soy formula. WELL - fast forward 30 years and that son, who lives in “all natural,organic, tree-hugging” Boulder CO, just found out that he was not nursed, AND HE WAS APPALLED !!!!, ‘MOM, I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT, HOW COULD YOU NOT ? I must admit, it was a very awkward explanation, and I even say to myself, “how could I have not “… what the heck do we have these things for ? ( OK , OK, I won’t go there ) AND THEN, when I told him he was on soy formula , he was aghast again, “MOM, YOU SHOULD NEVER PUT BABIES ON SOY, IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING THEM A BIRTH CONTROL PILL !! ” What could I say ? I told him that is why he is so sweet. The moral here is that some things ARE better than the “old’ days ……. what were we thinking ?

By EKA - on 11/12/2008 8:04 pm

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what were we thinking? not much——still ‘programmed’—-‘wild robots’—-i recall a dr. Fred Hoyle’s intro Astronomy Text——much consisted of ‘how-to-think-for-yourself’. What a concept—-but it worked—-when you learn that, a new world of truth opens—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 11/12/2008 9:07 pm

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I have a relative who nursed each of her children until they were five. Seriously. Now, she cannot understand why they can’t be two feet from her without having whining, screaming fits…they can barely get through a day at school, and when they come home they are all over her. She can’t get out of their sight. Clearly she took this a tad too far!!

By J B on 11/13/2008 10:10 am