{"id":106196,"date":"2017-07-07T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=106196"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:39:35","slug":"amanda-seyfried-breastfeeding-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/amanda-seyfried-breastfeeding-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried Has Something to Say About Breastfeeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk surrounding breastfeeding, new mothers often find it difficult to decide how to feed their baby. While public breastfeeding is deemed as &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; by many, formula feeding is also frowned upon because of its unnatural content (even if a mom can&#8217;t produce enough breastmilk).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Amanda Seyfried <a href=\"http:\/\/hellogiggles.com\/amanda-seyfried-got-real-on-twitter-about-the-stigma-of-breastfeeding\/\" target=\"_blank\">jumped on Twitter to give her two cents<\/a> on the stigma surrounding feeding.\u00a0The actress gave birth to her first child earlier this year and was pretty fed up with what people had to say about a mother&#8217;s choices of feeding her baby.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breastfeeding is awesome. Formula is awesome. Feeding your baby is awesome. Not awesome? Judgement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Seyfried (@AmandaSeyfried) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaSeyfried\/status\/882703353356177410\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n&#8220;Breasts are intended to feed babies. With all our progress on feminist issues, how can such a simple biological imperative&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Seyfried (@AmandaSeyfried) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaSeyfried\/status\/882734937614540800\">July 5, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;&#8230;remain so stigmatized? In a word: sex. We live in a culture comfortable with exploiting breasts to sell burgers, for goodness sake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Seyfried (@AmandaSeyfried) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaSeyfried\/status\/882735050936262656\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\n&#8220;How would you rather your body be portrayed?&#8221; -Maureen Shaw<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Seyfried (@AmandaSeyfried) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaSeyfried\/status\/882735089452535808\">July 5, 2017<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a string of tweets, she laid it all out and said, &#8220;Breastfeeding is awesome. Formula is awesome. Feeding your baby is awesome. Not awesome? Judgment.&#8221; She followed with a quote from Maureen Shaw, criticizing the shame surrounding breastfeeding as it stems from breasts being portrayed as a sex object.<\/p>\n<p>Other moms chimed in to give praise to the actress and share their thoughts on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Seyfried&#8217;s tweets? Weigh in on the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"With all the talk surrounding breastfeeding, new mothers often find it difficult to decide how ...","author":1427020,"featured_media":106197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/07102408\/amandaseyfried-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/07102408\/amandaseyfried.jpg","formated_date":"July 7, 2017","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#f7f783","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}