Hip Mama Cover Banned Because Breasts Being Used For Breastfeeding Are Just So Scandalous
It’s an amazing issue on motherhood and creativity and I just wanted people to know about it. Of course I think the cover photo is gorgeous, too, so I wanted to show that off. It honestly didn’t occur to me that it would be a problem for anyone,” she explained. ”I know what Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus look like naked — and I know they’re adult women with every right to represent themselves as they please — but I think of them as children and it bugs me a little to see them naked, but I mind my own business. It doesn’t bug me at all to see another mother breastfeeding her child in a self-directed image that isn’t exploiting anyone. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would raise an eyebrow. I figured that if anyone didn’t like breasts, they would, as I do when I see images I don’t care for, mind their own business.”
Now the new cover has a nice little censor sticker over the breastfeeding image so all of the pearl-clutchers can not be so scandalized by it. I love the image of Ana and I think it’s gorgeous. The whole idea of people getting so outraged over breastfeeding is just so absurd to me, especially considering the fact we see boobs all day everyday – usually not used for breastfeeding, but for selling bras and just doing their sexy breast work which is being sexy. Not only are breasts sexy, they also serve a a purpose – but as soon as we see them serving this purpose they are suddenly deemed obscene. This whole thing is just totally eye-rolly but I am super stoked to read the latest issue of Hip Mama. I think Ariel should sell uncensored prints of the cover because it’s a gorgeous picture of a mom using her breasts to do what breasts were created to do. Which is just not sit around and collect cracker crumbs and be used for sexy times.
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