The 'Bad Moms' star reveals she has been shamed for breastfeeding in public and tells the shamers, 'But I respect the opinions on both sides. If it's not for you, don't look.'
- Jul 21, 2016
AceShowbiz - Mila Kunis is the latest celebrity who supports breastfeeding in public. The mother of one opened up with Vanity Fair the problem of being a mom in this society which still sees a woman breastfeeding in public as inappropriate. "I support every woman's choice in what she wants to do and whatever makes them happy, but for me, I did nurse my child and I literally breastfed everywhere," she said when met at the New York premiere of her movie "Bad Moms" on Monday, July 18.
The 32-year-old actress, who is currently expecting her second child with husband Ashton Kutcher, shared her experiences, "There were many times where I didn't bring a cover with me, and so I just did it in a restaurant, in the subway, in the park, at airports, and in planes. Why did I do it in public? Because I had to feed my child. She's hungry." She went on defending her actions, "I need to feed her whether it's out of a bottle or out of my boob no matter where I was."
"It always made my husband and I feel a little weird," she admitted. "It took us a little back because people actually looked at us in a shameful [way], and we were like, 'Oh my God,' because it's so not a sexual act." She added, "It didn't matter to me what other people thought. That's what I chose to do, but I think it's unfortunate that people are so hard on women who choose to do it and do it in public. In the States and in our culture, we sexualize the breast so much that there's an aspect of it that people just don't know how to wrap their head around the idea of showing your breast in public."
While she said that she respected "the opinions on both sides," the "That '70s Show" alum had a message to those breastfeeding shamers. "If it's not for you, don't look," she said.
In another interview with Howard Stern on his radio show on Tuesday, Mila talked about her ex Macaulay Culkin's "abnormal" fans whom she encountered when she was dating the former child star, who is now 35 years old. "He was huge so you couldn't walk down the street with him," she recalled.
"He always had this weird [attraction]; fans would just scream - they didn't know how to react," she said of the "Home Alone" star's devotees. "It wasn't like a normal response to a celebrity. Fans responded in a very abnormal way to him."
