Posted on 07/21/2022 7:24:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
"I think that being a mom is the most unbelievable experience in this world"
Actress Alicia Silverstone said this week that she “still” sleeps with her 11-year-old son Bear, emphasizing that she’s a “natural mama” and a “loving mama.”
The “Clueless” actress has made headlines for some of her parenting choices and even joked that her ex-husband and father to her child, musician Christopher Jarecki, initially dismissed the decisions as “hippie s***,” but he’s since come around.
“Bear and I still sleep together,” Silverstone told podcast host Ellen Fisher. “And I’ll be in trouble for saying that, but I don’t care.”
Fisher noted that Silverstone’s non-“status quo” parenting has been criticized in the press, highlighting “co-sleeping” with her son Bear.
“I’m a natural mama, and I’m a loving mama,” Silverstone reacted. “I believe in love, I believe in nature. And our society is scared of nature and love.”
Silverstone noted that it’s normal in our culture for women to wear string thong bikinis on the beach, but breastfeeding in public is not normal. “And I’m just like, what?!”
The 45-year-old further questioned why women are “sexualized” everywhere you look. “But we can’t gently feed our children with the thing that was made to feed them? Like, what is wrong with you?”
Silverstone and Fisher then gushed over motherhood. “I think that being a mom is the most unbelievable experience in this world … for me, it’s so divine,” the actress said. “I wanted to savor every moment of [Bear’s] life.”
The “Batman & Robin” actress told Fisher that ideally, she’d have more children, at least two or three in total, but didn’t have more kids because she didn’t have a partner after her relationship got “messed up.”
During the same podcast, Silverstone reportedly described how she rarely used diapers while potty-training Bear, instead watching for “clues” from her child.
“It’s so awesome. It’s so easy,” she said. “When I was done feeding him, he would go to the bathroom in the toilet. When he woke up from a nap, he went to the bathroom.”
“There was a period of time where I was watching him naked and watching the cues,” Silverstone continued. “The cues part for me was really fun because I thought that he was flirting with me because he would do this little smile. That’s when he had to pee.”
Notably, in 2012, the actress made waves online when she fed her then-10-month-old son food that had first been chewed in her mouth.
Yea but is he still breast feeding?
It is all very odd, but the worst to me is that she is making this all public. This kid is going to be in for years of relentless teasing.
11 year old? Maybe, it depends.
14 year old? NO, NO, NO.
They will be in freezing houses as they won't be able to pay for food and fuel.
just another hollywood pedophile
It appears that this mom is feminizing her male child. This kid needs a father figure.
She is not that cute anymore, but it happens. Actresses tend to have very short shelf lives (compared to actors).
While this is a tad odd, I’ve heard way worse.
Not the same thing, but my mom has a music student who nurses her six-year-old daughter. Just eeewwww.
Wait til he shows her what he needs next...
With surgery, he will have a girly figure.
I do too. It’s mentally unhealthy.
I wonder why the left likes to mess up children like that?
Letting your kid join you in bed for a short time if they had a nightmare is ok, although if it is mother and son or father and daughter it could get weird.
But this along with her other statements says she is setting the kid up for problems.
Just telling the world this stuff is going to set him up in his interactions with his peers.
“Wait til he shows her what he needs next”
Being hollyweird she might just oblige him
we also know a woman in her 50’s who takes cruises with her grown son, they share a little room.
I’ve been on a cruise ship and even on the “bigger” cabins there’s not much room left for privacy.
So weird to me.
well, she’s rich, so she’ll be able to afford the years of therapy the boi will need...
ISYDT.............................
everyone should give her a break.
So what?
Sometime me and my 21 year old son crash in the same bed after we fall asleep watching TV together.
A whole lotta nothing.
Pure cancel culture but in a different form.
11 years old is NOT that old anyway.
Ridiculous story.
IIRC, there was an uproar years ago about her feeding her kid a vegetarian diet only.
In some cultures that is so.
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