Posted on 02/11/2009 7:29:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Salma Hayek was so taken aback by the plight of an African woman in Sierra Leone who was unable to breastfeed her child that the star breastfed the newborn herself.
The 42-year-old actress, who was nursing her own daughter Valentina at the time, offered to help when the baby's mother stopped producing milk.
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I pumped breast milk for premie babies long after I quit nursing my son. We lived in the Washington DC area and Children’s Hospital had a great need for breast milk for premies (their mom’s usually didn’t have milk yet and were often “absent” due to other health issues). While I didn’t have Ms. Hayek’s assets, I could provide milk enough to feed a couple of babies at no cost to me other than a little effort. I froze the milk and a volunteer picked it up once a week.
LOL!
Precisely.
Not everything is political. A lot of bizarre opinions on these threads.
Agree, and am disgusted by some of the comments on here about here making this a photo opp.
I CALL NEXT!
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Such as leering over Salma Hayeks ability to feed 3rd world infants "On the Hoof", as it were.
So tittelating.
I saw her in some movie about a Mexican musician-guy who gets his hand shot and can no longer play guitar and spends the rest of the movie walking around Mexico seeking revenge with a guitar case full of weapons. Doesn't matter, forget the movie plot, she is absolutely one of the most beautiful women I have seen in movies.
That kid is going to “scoreboard” all of his friends when he becomes a teenager.
I’m speechless. Utterly speechless. Happily married for 21 years but still speechless.
1) My sister in a swimming pool.
2) Salma Hayek
That was my initial reaction but watch the Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM7kKJ1NbQA
I agree with some of the other posters that this was a warm gesture that was meaningful -- listen to the part about a great-grandmother of hers doing the same thing.
I personally think that Angelina Jolie's forays into Africa are nothing more than staged photo-ops but this one is genuine and the act was probably very spontaneous.
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Them are some huge mommy-bags !
I have no issue with Ms Hayek doing this. It looks and feels more heartfelt than Angelina Jolie or Maddona’s “gestures.”
And it has potential for better visuals.
Typical Liberal photo op.
Running out of milk is not an on the spot event.
And there is plenty of cooperation among the locals regarding such needs in that part of the world.
And those of you that are commenting that, “Not everything is political,” have missed the point.
Everything is moral! And, both the Media and Hayek took part in a calculated staged event. The media sold stories and Salma looks like a princess. The unwashed masses buy in and enjoy a feel-good story. What’s the harm (they think).
um ... visuals of the lovely Miss Hayek, available at images.google.com, show just about as much “visual” as this happily-married middle-aged fellow can handle.
It is the same as the staged photo op meeting with Obama in Florida yesterday. It is all propaganda. Pour hundreds of billions more into Africa. Do you know how much has been poured into the continent from the US, Europe and the west?
It is creepy propaganda and even people here fell for it.
“These poor people are so hopeless and we need to send them a trillion plus bring millions of them here.” This is there plan. Obama already signed the Middle East refugee relocation bill.
No it is to soften you up to send another trillion of your tax money to Africa. “These people cannot help themselves...” It was totally staged.
Same thing in that staged FL Oprah-esque press conference yesetrday. It is propaganda and people here fell for it.
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