Sometimes models say the wrong thing. Ok, models mostly say the wrong thing, but Gisele Bundchen said something so wrong, it turned every single woman in the world against her.
Well, at least the women who read about it.
Modern Lady Erin Gibson takes on Gisele and talking heads like Whoopi Goldberg, Megyn Kelly,
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Deborah Norville, and Laura Ingraham who took the supermodel too seriously.
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Gisele reached the top of the world - as much as I don't care about this fashion world - and stayed there. She's got more money than she'll ever need, she's married to a successful dude that seems to be nice and likes her, she decided to become a mother and she's having fun at it. What she said - and more importantly, the way she did it - is pretty much what any successful young Brazilian mother would say.
So what hundreds of female pundits told her to shut up on TV? She wanted to send her message across and she, again, succeeded.
I've read many comments of mothers that had trouble breastfeeding who said Gisele was insensitive on her remarks.
But that was not why she said it, to make unlactating mothers feel bad. Let's not be blind here. How many mothers are just too lazy or too vain to breastfeed their babies or to bear without a C-section?
Different conditions change the rules. If you can't have a natural labour, or breastfeed, of course you won't have to.
Right on, Gisele. As much as I despise nationalism, you've just made me proud of your big Brazilian balls.
anyway. people[ corporations and the medical establishment] won't stand for it. there is to much money in formula and cecarians.
My son had a spastic jaw due to undiagnosed cerebral palsy. If I had decided to stand up while feeding him, he would have dangled from my chest until he fell asleep - unless he "mastectomized" (or "masticated"?) me first. I can laugh now, but I heartily sympathize with those who have problems with breast-feeding. Gisele should shut up and read before her next proclamation.
It's a f***ing joke, lighten up Francis
GEE-sell-ah, not jih-SELL, which would be correct if she were French.
Her point was apparently that babies do better on breasts than bottles, and she may also be aware that nursing is a natural contraceptive. She was obviously a bit clumsy in her advocacy, probably trying to be emphatic. Our on-air heads would do well to keep in mind English is probably not her first language, more likely her third after German and Portuguese.
AND this video with its attendant civics lesson was right on. Beautifully done.
Don't these news commentators have anything else upon which to focus?
Side note, Erin Gibson is hilarious ...