Gisele Bundchen: ‘There should be a worldwide law’ forcing mothers to breastfeed for six months

Posted by mija on Aug 2, 2010 in News | 0 comments

She may be a first-time mother, but Gisele Bundchen already has plenty to say about parenting.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, the supermodel, who gave birth to son Benjamin in December, lends her opinion to the never-ending debate between the benefits of breastfeeding versus feeding a baby formula.
“Some people (in the US) think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child when they are so little?'” Bundchen says in the magazine’s September issue, according to the Daily Mail.
She adds, “I think there should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
As if women around the world aren’t already envious of the Brazilian beauty, who is married to NFL hunk Tom Brady, Bundchen goes on to recall how easy it was to give birth.
Thanks to some meditating, the model says the eight-hour natural birthing process “didn’t hurt in the slightest.”
“It prepared me mentally and physically. It’s called ‘labor’ not ‘holiday’ for a reason, and I knew that,” she says. “You want to go into the most intense physical experience of your life unprepared? That doesn’t make any sense to me.”
“Then I was ready and I thought OK, let’s get to work,'” she continues. “I wasn’t expecting someone else to get the baby out of me.”
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