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Actress Salma Hayek recently traveled to Sierra Leone to raise awareness about tetanus, a leading cause of death in the developing world. While there, she witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of extreme poverty. Hayek, who has a 16-month-old daughter named Valentina, was moved to offer herself quite literally to a starving child. In front of Nightline cameras, Hayek began breast-feeding a hungry African baby.
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Wednesday 11 February
By SarahH
What a beautiful story by a beautiful woman :)
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Wednesday 11 February
By andy
i guess theres still are some good people out there.
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Wednesday 11 February
By algonquin j. calhoun
...wouldn't mind having a shot of that myself...
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Wednesday 11 February
By David
The baby looked fine. What a gross self-serving publicity stunt. Hey galmor girl, if you want to help, go help without the cameras and the stardom. Otherwise, take your shallow self and get back on a magazine cover where you belong.
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Wednesday 11 February
By william bandy
Wake up people! This was no great act of kindness. I'm not even sure what it was exactly, but it was totally unnecessary. Look at the pictures and use your brain at the same time. This was no starving child. Look at it's face,arms and legs. This was a normal healthy baby. Had it not been black there would have never been a story. This was not about the child, hunger or any of the top things on the list to make one noble. This was about her. What would compel
anyone to pick up a fat, healthy baby that wasn't even theirs and stick their breast in it's mouth. Wonder if the cameras had anything to do with it.
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Wednesday 11 February
By chigirlmi
Possibly the baby happened to be HUNGRY and mom wasn't available or something. You must not be a parent. (Admittedly I can't watch the video since I'm on dial-up)
Wednesday 11 February
By Boopercat@aol.com
I am disturbed that people think it is wrong that Selma is still breastfeeding her 16 month old. The fact is that the US society is conditioned to stop breastfeeding much too soon. The immune benefits and exceptional nutrition for a young child is irreplacable. We should be breast feeding our children longer than we do. The immune system isn't even finished developing for at least 1 year after a child is born and studies not implicate that children who were breastfed longer are lifelong healthier.
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Wednesday 11 February
By olan5
My own mother saved a baby by breast feeding him. It is wrong for our society reject breast feeding or to consider it a sexual act. Women have been breast feeding other peoples babies through out history. The USA is very backward about it.
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Wednesday 11 February
By Cathy
We used to employee people to do this, they were called a "wet nurse".
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Wednesday 11 February
By Nikki Marx
heroic it may be . and i have followed her courageous act to bring the babies in Africa medications, food, etc ... but i agree with others before me who have said that WE in AMERICA have MILLIONS of starving children, needy families, etc ... and i firmly believe that if we are not strong and connected as a country and family first then we are no good to any others ...
she fed that baby today, but that baby will not eat tomorrow. just as the millions of American babies and children won't either.
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Wednesday 11 February
By Kimberley
My question is - if her daughter is 16 months old - why is she still lactating enough to breast feed a child? Most children opt to stop breast feeding around 12-14 months old, so unless mom is insisting on continuing - she should not be lactating sufficiently to feed a child 16 months after child birth.
I applaud her actions, but just have to wonder about her ability.
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Friday 13 February
By dm
You can breastfeed for up to three years. Americans are the morons who think that breastfeeding is weird and we treat breast feeding mothers like they are aliens when they pop the teet out to do it. ITS NATURAL AND IT IS A NATURAL AID IN BIRTHCONTROL AS WELL AS AIDS IN PREVENTING SIDS. Maybe you guys should read a text book or took and study some anthropology....hmmm...maybe Americans aren't so bright afterall.
Wednesday 11 February
By EnglishFamilyus4
This totally cracks me up...Two weeks ago here on the Dallas/Fort Worth Craigslist, a woman ran an ad offering to breastfeed other babies...and I am telling you, I have never seen Craigslist come so alive before!!! They flagged that lady's ad and went on and on the entire day about it...even a woman from social services posted an ad about how this was such a dangerous thing to do in case of disease. The concept totally grossed out the bottle-feeders!! But suddenly it is okay with some of you if it is a movie star's "nins"!! I agree that the baby looks a healthy weight and this was more of a publicity stunt...But I think this country needs alot more positve publicity for breastfeeding anyway, so hopefully no harm is done. The majority of women in the US think that bottlefeeding is the normal way to feed a child and breastfeeding is "strange" and it is really sad because breastfeeding is really what is healthier for our children and our country has a weird concept of why the good Lord gave women breasts in the first place!!!
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Thursday 12 February
By Amy
What a beauitful blessing to that child!
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Wednesday 11 February
By Lisa
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? That was plain STUPID! That baby could have transferred HIV to her, or if this actress has it, she could transfer to the baby! I believe you can transfer Hep C in the same manner! She should have expressed her milk if she felt so strongly about it. DUMB MOVE! I am an ardent believer in breastfeeding, but this was irresponsible. If that baby had even a microscopic sore in it's mouth and she had a crack to the nipple, it could be transmitted that way.
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Wednesday 11 February
By mlopez
first off I have to say I am a hetero-sexual male, so my what I have to say here should be taken with a grain of salt, the concept of feeding a starving child is never a bad thing, the idea of a wet nurse is not that unusaul in most devolping countries, or even that wierd 50-100 years ago in English and French Speaking North America, or western Europe, so i don't see any moral problem with this act.
2nd I am how ever torn on the Africa chic movement, it seems that Africa is the cause of the day, if you can start somthing that you intend to countinue feel free to help, but if it is fashionable and your role will soon fall the way of other fads, (anybody remember "save the whales") that is just going to hurt more in the long run.
3rd Selma is from Mexico, she has seen the most impoveished people in the world, so it probally breaks her heart every time she sees that kind of thing, the second edge of that sword howerver is she is from Latin America, Africa is chic, Latin America is right there, it is not like there are not people in Mexico Guatemala, Panama, Venuzuela, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and on , and on and on. that need as much help as those in Africa or developing Asia.
So help where you can, but don't treat people like a hobbie that you lose interest in either.
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Wednesday 11 February
By smartassmama08
ok thats a little out there on hospitality.....we don't act like a cow factory and let animals run up to us for milk...the mother should be doing it herself or milk a real cow.you just don't go up and put your kid on someones nipple for some food.micheal jackson tried to help and was considered a pervert she whips out a boob and is a hero...what is wrong with you people
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Wednesday 11 February
By David Rockdale
I wonder if I could pass for a starving african baby? Get my motor-boat workin'.
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Wednesday 11 February
By Sam Price
What I do not understand is, why is there all of this hunger and disease on probably the richest continent in the world?
There are really no chances for anyone living in Africa to advance and even have a chance for the "Pusuit of Happiness" in Africa unless they somehow belong to Royalty.
Think about it, DIAMONDS, OIL, Two of the richest commodities to ever exist and they continuosly look for free help from everyone. The Royalty use their own people as slaves to mine these diamonds with absolutely no respect for life or limb.
I will not say that slaves in this country were better off here a long time ago, because I do not believe in slavery. But if everyone knew what was really happening to the common people of Africa by their own hierarchy they would soon come to realise that it is worse there at this time than it ever was here in the US.
Just my 2 cents.
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Wednesday 11 February
By JAMALIHESS
i would of been so concerned about diseases, and to then feed your
own baby!!
no way,
these people are full of diseases, and filth, i dont think it was a heroic
act, i think it was a stupid act, by a uninformed women, trying to make
a point, why else do these stars do these things..
i hope her baby is allright
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