Ricki Lake's New Documentary About Home Births Is All About Her

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Ricki Lake's new documentary The Business of Being Born is premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival and her publicists have been working overtime to promote it. From interviews on the Huffington Post to this little gem in New York Magazine, it's all about ~~the shortcomings of hospital births~~ Ricki Lake.

Ricki Lake wants us to know that she had a natural child birth at home in her tub. Naked. She wants us to know that her publicist told her that she needed to lose weight if she was going to film her naked water birth so she lost 24 pounds. (But looks "better now," she adds. You know, naked.)

Ricki Lake also wants us to know that after giving birth in her tub (naked), she made her assistant clean it. I'm sorry but what kind of selfish beeyotch makes an assistant clean up a bathtub soiled with amniotic fluid, blood, and afterbirth?

Apparently the assistant "still talks about the experience" to this day. Shoot, if I had to touch Ricki Lake's placenta juice, you bet I'd still be talking about it. Let's just hope Ricki Lake paid her or him a wad of cash. Perhaps Ricki Lake should consider changing the title of movie to The Business of Being an A-Hole.

[via Daddy Types]

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Ricki Lake's New Documentary About Home Births Is All About Her