Multitasking? The catwalk that sparked a breastfeeding debate [Photo: Instagram/Diandraforrest]
Last week Diandra Forrest made headlines as she took to the runway at New York Fashion Week holding her 7-week-old daughter, Rain. But it wasn’t the appearance of a baby on the catwalk that whipped up the frenzy, it was the fact that some people in the audience assumed she was breastfeeding. Cue outrage!
Now the model is speaking about her surprise at the fuss, particularly as she wasn’t actually breastfeeding at the time.
“I was so shocked when people were shocked by it,” Diandra told The Telegraph explaining that she’d already ensured her daughter had been fed backstage beforehand. And that she would have found walking the catwalk while nursing way too tricky to pull off.
“It’s hard to breastfeed in that position, so it would have been a little impossible on a runway,” she explained. “Because she’s so small — if she could hold her head up that would be easier, but you can’t really walk and breastfeed.”
Last week Diandra Forrest made headlines as she took to the runway at New York Fashion Week holding her 7-week-old daughter, Rain. But it wasn’t the appearance of a baby on the catwalk that whipped up the frenzy, it was the fact that some people in the audience assumed she was breastfeeding. Cue outrage!
Now the model is speaking about her surprise at the fuss, particularly as she wasn’t actually breastfeeding at the time.
“I was so shocked when people were shocked by it,” Diandra told The Telegraph explaining that she’d already ensured her daughter had been fed backstage beforehand. And that she would have found walking the catwalk while nursing way too tricky to pull off.
“It’s hard to breastfeed in that position, so it would have been a little impossible on a runway,” she explained. “Because she’s so small — if she could hold her head up that would be easier, but you can’t really walk and breastfeed.”
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