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Best of FameCrawler: Week of February 13th

Whit Honea — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Nadya Suleman Exclusive Interview on Dateline - Video

Nadya Suleman's Pregnancy Was Huge. Literally. (PHOTO)

First Pictures of Nadya Suleman's Octuplets

Jade Goody's Boyfriend Wants Curfew Changed

Video: Pregnant M.I.A. Grammy Performance, Says Son To Be Hip Hop Star

Dr Phil Takes On Octuplets Mom. Guess Who Wins?

Octuplets Mom Nadya Suleman: Angelina Jolie Wannabe?

Naomi Watts Says Octuplets Story is Way Too Much

Octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman Received $300,000 For NBC Interview?

Michelle Obama on the Cover of Vogue

Nadya Suleman and the Octuplets - Their Story

Octuplets Mom Nadya Suleman: I'm Not Irresponsible Or Selfish

Kristy Swanson Gets Married to Skating With Celebrities Partner

Salma Hayek Spreads The Breastfeeding Love

Is Seth Binzer Dead From Cardiac Arrest?

Is Nadya Suleman in Hiding?

Salma Hayek Shines Spotlight on Breastfeeding Taboos

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT

As most people know by now, Salma Hayek’s very public breastfeeding in Sierra Leone was not just a moment of compassion for a hungry child. It was that, but it was also a calculated—and noble—attempt to dispel the notion in some parts of Africa that breastfeeding women can’t have sex. Given this entrenched belief, you can probably guess how husbands feel about their wives breastfeeding.

It’s easy to see such an urban legend as shocking, but, as Ada Calhoun points out in TIME, the U.S. certainly has its fair share of breastfeeding taboos—most notably, against cross-nursing. Indeed, many media outlets and online commenters were disgruntled at best by the YouTube video of Hayek nursing another woman’s child. (EW.com awarded the video “biggest eyebrow-raiser” of the day.)

According to Calhoun, no American institution will support informal cross-nursing, citing concerns about “the possibility of transmitting infections, a decrease in supply for the donor's own baby, psychological confusion on the part of the infant, and the fact that the composition of breast milk changes as children get older.”

Hayek’s very public cross-nursing demonstrated that there are certainly instances in which none of these concerns are relevant. The Sierra Leonean baby she breastfed was born on the same day as her daughter and Hayek knew him to be healthy. She’s not in any danger of her milk running dry from one emergency feeding, and no one would argue that any “psychological confusion” the baby boy may have experienced outweighed the benefits of assuaging his hunger.

Photo: The Daily Mail

Girl with Bowel Disease Kept Alive on Donated Breastmilk

Salma Hayek Breastfeeds Hungry Baby in Africa

Salma Hayek Breastfeeds Hungry Baby in Africa - With Video!

SunnyChanel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:07:00 GMT

When actress and mother Salma Hayek does charity work, she doesn’t just give her time and super star status, she gives it her all, including her famous and bountiful boobs. When visiting Sierra Leone on a charity mission for UNICEF, Hayek took it upon herself to breastfeed a young hungry baby . She reportedly felt a bond with the infant because they just happened to share the same birthday as her daughter Valentina. About the generous offering, Salma said:

"The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother didn't have milk. He was very hungry. I was weaning Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk that I was pumping, so I breast-fed the baby.

"You should have seen his eyes. When he felt the nourishment, he immediately stopped crying," said Hayek.

When asked if she thought Valentina might have issues sharing her mom’s milk she said "I actually think that my baby would be very proud to be able to share her milk, and when she grows up, I'm going to make sure she continues to be caring, generous person," says Hayek.

She also related a story about how her great grandmother had also breastfed a hungry baby that she had encountered on the street many moons ago. The generority of the Hayek women seems to run in the family.

The scene was captured by a crew from Nightline and you can check it out below.

Would you ever breastfeed another person’s infant? Would you let your child suckle from another mother’s breast?

Best of FameCrawler: Week of November 7th

Whit Honea — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Obama Elected 44th President of the United States!

Brooke Burke Says She's Married...More Kids, Please!

Sarah Palin Gets Crank Pranked But Good (Video! And Palin Response! GOD THIS IS FUN!)

Jemaine Clement Has A Son

Rahm Emanuel is Now Part of Barack Obama's Entourage (Photos)

Colbert, Stewart and Obama: The Tears of a Clown(s)

Brad Pitt's Parents Don't Want to See Angelina's Boobs

Is Taylor Swift Pregnant?

Salma Hayek Is A Thief

Did A Celebrity Convince You To Vote?

Michelle Obama is a Work of Art

Baby Brother For Suri Cruise?

Which Celebs Refuse To Pimp Out Their Kids?

Amy S.F. Lutz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Since Brangelina's twins arrived, there's been a lot of passionate debate about the ethics of celebrities auctioning off baby pics to the highest bidder.

Me, I thought that, since Brad and Angelina have promised to donate the $11 million they've allegedly scored from People Magazine to charity, everyone wins. Until I read a very rational article on this practice, which pointed out that celebs like the Jolie-Pitts have so much money they could easily afford to donate $11 mil to charity WITHOUT sacrificing their children's privacy. As Bruce Weinstein, who writes on ethics for a syndicated column, points out, "If your own parents are literally selling you out, where can one feel safe?"

Not all celebrities are raking in the big bucks for their baby pictures, however. Which ones are taking the moral highground?

According to Gawker, a few big names were never approached to sell their babes' photos because they made it clear beforehand they weren't interested. In this group are actresses Nicole Kidman (who recently welcomed, with husband Keith Urban, daughter Sunday Rose), Halle Berry (who celebrated the arrival of Nahla Ariela with Gabriel Aubry) and Cate Blanchett (who, with husband Andrew Upton, brought home third son Ignatius Martin in April).

Then there are those celebs who turned down big time offers for pictures of their offspring, such as Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck (parents of Violet Anne, now 2), Courtney Cox and David Arquette (parents of Coco Riley, now 4), Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick (parents of James Wilkie, now 5) and Salma Hayek (who last year delivered Valentina Paloma, fathered by Hayek's fiance, Francois-Henri Pinault). Several of these tots have been snapped while out and about with their parents, or had their pictures distributed for free, but in any case, these folks obviously didn't want their children to become the focus of increasingly aggressive stalking by the paparazzi.

One could argue that no matter how Brad and Angelina resolved the photo distribution question, their no-doubt gorgeous twins would still become the focus of increasingly aggressive stalking by the paparazzi. And one would probably be right - after all, we're talking about Brangelina here! But at least if they had held their ground, their kids would have known, when they were old enough to appreciate it, that their parents never looked at them with dollar signs in their eyes.

20 Mil For Pics Of Twins

Best of Famecrawler: WWJD?

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:10:00 GMT

By Whit

Katie "Jordan" Price popped up in a giant box of Kleenex today. A new fragrance wafted gingerly behind her. Who are we kidding? I'm guessing the place smelled like a French whorehouse, not that I know what that smells like, it's just an expression.

The perfume, called "Stunning" is now available in London, but will soon come to a K-Mart near you. I hope the gift-pack includes one of her nappy weaves. Halloween is right around the corner. It's like Bratz in a bottle.

In parting, let me leave you with the stunning words of Katie, as featured on Perez Hilton:

“I’m thinking of having my vagina tightened. After having three kids, I’d really notice the difference. By the time I’m finished I’ll be like a nun.”

-Jordan

Other Famecrawler goodness today:

[Photo Credit: dlisted]

Normal-Looking Pregnant Celebs Get Flack From Losers

Kelly Mills — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:24:00 GMT

Time flies, doesn't it? It feels like only hours ago that I was posting about how women feel pressure to lose pregnancy weight by watching celebrities squeeze themselves into size four jeans ten minutes after giving birth. I recommended getting your celeb news with a dose of snark, and now I'd like to clarify that position. Don't get it from the lame-ass mockerazzi that picks on lovely pregnant ladies like the wonderful Salma Hayek. Because when you read this, and notice the 47 related stories, all a variation on "Salma Hayek is really big, yuck" then you know lameness, and its name is trashing pregnant celebrities for not having wee little bumps.

Stuff like this makes me want to pound my head against my keyboard repeatedly. Pregnancy should be a time when you do your best to take care of yourself and your growing fetus, not worry about being svelte. Of course, many people also feel very comfortable in making dumbass comments like "Wow, you must be due any day now, you are huge" and "Are you having twins? Because I've never seen anyone so big." And if you are famous, I suppose those comments just get nastier and come from folks who find great pleasure in attacking famous women for looking, well, pregnant. I think Salma is geee-orgeus. And the haters should be condemned to a lifetime of undies that go all the way up to the chest, inexplicable cravings, and swollen ankles. And the only cure would be to drink a nice glass of shut the f*ck up.

Salma Hayek Sounds Off on Motherhood, the Bible, and the Pressure to be Perfect That All Women Face

Alisyn — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:11:00 GMT

Newly engaged and pregnant with her first child at age 40, outspoken actress Salma Hayek sounded off to Marie Claire Magazine about the mounting pressures women today face, and how the Bible is partially responsible for it.

"Motherhood is for me, [but] it's not for everyone... " she said. "Society thinks if you don't have children, you've failed as a woman, even if you are CEO of a company. You've got to be beautiful, smart, skinny, tall, rich, successful at your job, married to the right guy – and have genius children. And by the way, you also have to be a nun!"

Let's see... we have to have kids, raise them, keep your day job, stay skinny, make a lot of money, have a happy marriage, all while living by a strict moral code... just to be considered "good enough" as a woman?

Yep, that sounds about right.

There are many theories about where the pressure to be perfect comes from - magazines, TV, our peers, ourselves, all of the above - and Salma added one more to the pile, when she spoke of her belief that the Bible, and its perception as the literal word of god, is at the heart of society's oppression of women. "I don't like the way the Bible views women - this thing about the Virgin Mary conceiving a child without having sex - so if you conceive a child by having sex, there's a subliminal message that there's something dirty about it... [But] the possibility of creating another life should remind women that we are creators, that we are made like God in our ability. And this is what makes us divine!"

Some strong words, and I think she has a point. Christian dogma dictates that we, as women, must protect our virginity, because our value is lessened without it, which is simply ridiculous. It implies that women are second-class citizens with few critical thinking skills and even fewer rights, and that we're all either whores or saints. Mostly whores. From biblical times, through the ages and into the present, women have been expected to conceive children (but not enjoy it), raise those children (and love every second of it!)... and that's about it. We are judged unfavorably (to say the least) for choosing something different. And that kind of judgment has trickled down through the ages, keeping women down, and making us feel bad about ourselves, even when we are successful on many different levels.

So is the Bible at the heart of female oppression? I personally am inclined to blame Christianity, especially in its fundamentalist form, for most of society's ills - but I'm a heathen like that. What do you think?

Salma Hayek Engaged, Expecting

Alisyn — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Actress Salma Hayek, 40, announced today that she is expecting her first child and embarking on her first marriage. The lucky guy is French millionaire François-Henri Pinault.

Salma is known for her curves, her sultry Mexican accent, and for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the film Frida. She is also a producer, and recurring guest star, on Ugly Betty. Salma's new fiancé, Monsieur Pinault, 44, is the CEO of luxury goods firm PPR, which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as a French department store and national music chain. His father, François, is a famous art collector, and the entire family is well known on the European and American fashion and art circuits. Baby Hayek-Pinault will be well taken care of - the family fortune is estimated in excess of $7 billion.

Congratulations - y felicitaciones! - to the happy couple!