I really love that celebrity women who are very influential people in culture are being open and transparent about their journey to parenthood and beyond!
From trying to conceive, IVF struggles, pregnancy loss, woes and all the good and the bad.
The same can be said of Breastfeeding challenges.
This January, PEOPLE mag did a slideshow review of celeb women who have opened up about their frustration with breastfeeding in social media or mag or news features or interviews.
You should take a look at it again for this World Breastfeeding Week.
Kelly Rowland’s stood out to me:
“All that gnawing at your nipples will take its toll!” the R&B singer — mom to son Titan Jewell — wrote in her parenting guide, Whoa, Baby! “In those early days, I was fascinated (my polite way of saying ‘horrified’) by the transformation of the boobs.” When it came time to breastfeed her child, Rowland was shocked by the physical changes her body immediately underwent. “My nipples were HUGE — we are talking the size of Frisbees — and sometimes I could see these veins bulging out while I was nursing,” she shared. “My boobs themselves were so long and stretchy that I sometimes felt like I could’ve swung them over my shoulders.”
Read the rest
