Chrissy Teigen Shared Her Experience With Breastfeeding

The outspoken celebrity Chrissy Teigen shared her past struggles to breastfeed her children on Twitter. She is over the stigma that comes with giving your baby formula over breast milk and that’s why she asks to “Normalize Formula”.

The Cravings author shared how difficult it was for her to breastfeed. She mentioned that it was made all the worse by people insisting it was the best option for her baby. Later she shared her struggles in a series of tweets.

She said, “ok I’m gonna say something and you all are definitely gonna make it a thing but here goes: normalize formula,” Chrissy also shared, “normalize breastfeeding is such a huge, wonderful thing. but I absolutely felt way more shame having to use formula because of lack of milk from depression and whatnot.”

Then she continued, “people have surrogates, people have trouble breastfeeding, and all you hear as a new, anxious mom is how breast is best,”. She also explained, “‘normalize breastfeeding’ is great. ‘normalize formula’ is great, too! so yeah. that’s all! normalize formula! your baby is gonna be BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT, AND OKAY.”

She wrote, “pumping my ASS OFF, highest mode, so often, because I didn’t trust milk was going into their mouthes [sic] if I breastfed. it drove me mad to the point I could only get an ounce. an ounce!”

Finally, she concluded, “the stress of it, combined with the guilt that you cannot do nature’s most natural thing for your own baby is too much. I dunno why this is my crusade now. I just remember the sadness I felt and want you to know you are doing it right if your baby is fed, mama.”

Chrissy Teigen shares two children with her husband singer John Legend. Now she is trying to raise her voice to break down stigmas around unnecessarily taboo topics.