Did anyone catch The View this morning? The ladies on The View spoke about Selma Hayek’s latest breastfeeding adventures in Sierra Leone during their “Hot Topics” segment. They had a video clip of Selma breastfeeding a starving baby she encountered while in Siera Leone. When the video showed Selma nursing, the clip obscured her areola with a fuzzy circle, the high-tech equivalent of a blackout bar. Before the clip even ended Whoopi was exclaiming” Whoa, wait a minute, what was that?” Sherri explained that they had to block out her areola because it couldn’t be shown on daytime tv. Whoopi looked disgusted and made a comment about how it was horrible that a woman breastfeeding a baby couldn’t be shown without covering up something.

Yaaaay Whoopi! I am so glad someone on the show had the brass to say something! How are we as a society to normalize breastfeeding when broadcast networks insist on covering the areola in breastfeeding footage? Seriously. It’s an areola for crying out loud, we all have them.

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