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‘Breastfeeding is addictive’: Penélope Cruz

The Spanish Hollywood star is enjoying being a mum at 39; so much so that she doesn't want to stop breastfeeding her baby girl.

Published: 18 December 2013 14:20 CET
'Breastfeeding is addictive': Penélope Cruz
"It's hard when the day comes when you have to stop," Penélope Cruz says about breastfeeding. Photo: Carl Court/AFP

Cruz and her Spanish Hollywood counterpart Javier Bardem had their second child six months ago; a girl they've named Luna, meaning moon in Spanish.

The Madrid-born actress is a firm believer in breastfeeding. "I breastfed my son (Leo) for 13 months and I plan to do the same with my daughter," she told fashion magazine Allure.

"It's hard when the day comes when you have to stop.

"Nursing is addictive," she added.

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Only days after being named 'Celeb with the hottest body' by Fitness Magazine, the mother-of-two doesn't seem at all concerned about packing on the baby kilos.

"I'm supposed to get extra calories because (when) breastfeeding you burn, like, an extra 500 a day."

In her interview with Allure, part of the January edition, Cruz also explains how she always knew she wanted a family because of the way she was brought up.

"Family has always been the most important thing," she said. 

Motherhood is also the central theme of Cruz’s new movie Twice Born, a story of an infertile woman's struggle to have a child, set against the brutality of the Bosnian war.

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Disneyland Paris apologises after mother stopped from breastfeeding at the park

Disneyland Paris, Europe's biggest tourist attraction, has apologised to a mother after two members of its security staff ordered her to stop breastfeeding her baby in public.

Published: 7 July 2021 10:05 CEST
Disneyland Paris apologises after mother stopped from breastfeeding at the park
Photo: Jaime Reina | AFP

Another female visitor drew attention to the incident on Sunday, tweeting indignantly that two security agents had “prevented a mother from breastfeeding her two-year-old baby on the grounds that it shocked foreign clients. In France, in July 2021!”

The tweet was accompanied by a picture of the two agents standing over two women sitting on a bench, one of them holding a small baby. In another tweet, the witness said the mother was Australian.

Responding to the messages, on which the French government was copied, Disneyland said Tuesday it “profoundly regrets this situation and present once more our apologies to the mother in question”.

The agents’ actions were “not compatible with our regulations and our values”, it said, insisting “there is no restriction on breastfeeding at Disneyland Paris”.

It also added that it offered “different places” at the site “for those who prefer a dedicated place” to nurse their children.

In its first Twitter response to the incident on Monday, Disneyland had struck an unapologetic tone, saying only that mothers had the use of special rooms “with suitable and comfortable material such as special breastfeeding seats”.

It changed its tune after being castigated on Twitter by France’s minister for citizenship, Marlene Schiappa, who was previously minister for gender equality.

“Dear @DisneylandParis, breastfeeding a baby is not an offence. It’s good that you have dedicated rooms but no-one knows when and where a baby will be hungry,” she wrote.

“Don’t you also start stigmatising mothers, it’s hard enough like that elsewhere,” she added.

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