The big debate
Where do you stand on today’s hottest topics?
Should parents be pre-chewing
food for their young children?
Alicia Silverstone caused a
stir when she disclosed that
she chewed food for her
11-month-old son, Bear Blu,
and then fed it into his mouth
— like a bird! “I really wasn’t
trying to tell anybody what to
do,” said Alicia, 35. But is this
sort of feeding proper?
t is our responsibility to ensure our
children learn the basic feeding and
eating skills necessary. Kiss-feeding,
as demonstrated by Alicia, is harmful
to a child’s appropriate developmental
stages of growth. It also emotionally
promotes dependence rather than
independence. An 11-month-old does
not need partially-digested food. This
child should be practicing the pincer
grasp, chewing and self-selecting
finger foods.
— Laura Cipullo, RD,
MomDishesItOut.com
I
It’s all right in
other cultures
t’s her child and she’s right — in
many cultures it’s no big deal. It’s not
like the world is full of supermarkets
full of baby food with the appropriate
feeding number to follow. Women,
and especially moms, need to be more
supportive of each other and stop
trying to find a way to undermine each
other with criticism all the time.
— Sharon Haas, commentator,
theinsider.com
[[1L]] April 30, 2012 OK!
Alicia posted
a video of a
feeding session
with Bear Blu
on her website,
thekindlife.com.
From left: Jose Perez/Splash News, n/c, Fernando Leon/Getty Images, JB Lacroix/WireImage
I
No, it’s harmful
fighting
words
Is it right to
digitally hide
Jennifer’s
cleavage?
There were two
versions of an ad
promoting Jennifer
Love Hewitt’s
Lifetime series, The
Client List. One
featured Jennifer’s
ample bosom. The
other used digital
magic to shrink
and cover her
breasts. “Apparently
somebody wanted
me to have a boob
reduction,” Hewitt
joked. Should
computers alter the
look of an actress?
Web opinions varied.
I
t’s no secret that
rampant
Leave well
Photoshopping
enough
in advertising is
alone!
becoming a real
problem… but the
wacky thing here
is that instead of using it to enhance
curves, it’s been used to get rid of
them. This is weird, right? It’s weird!
And also unnecessarily prudish! We
saw more dramatic things on this
year’s Oscars telecast (Hello, Jennifer
Lopez’s nipple!), so I’m having a little
trouble seeing why this gorgeous,
curvy woman would need to be
edited down to a smaller size.
— Lucia Peters,
on BettyConfidential.com
LisaVS.
Dayana
“She’ll be knocked
up before the end
of the week.”
This ad
for The
Client List
featured
Jennifer in
full bloom.
A similar
ad hid her
cleavage.
T
here’s no
reason to
It’s just a
get excited
marketing
here. This is a
move
marketing move.
Some magazines
attract lots of
male readers. They most likely
would prefer the full-figured
Jennifer. Others attract women and
children, who, arguably, might be
more inclined to look at a picture of a
demure Jennifer. It’s all about what
is going to capture the consumer’s
attention. The marketers of The
Client List decided to play it safe and
give the public two options. Only one
was true, but this is Hollywood!
— CiCi Chung, media blogger
Lisa Lampanelli has ribbed Dayana
Mendoza on Celebrity Apprentice,
but when Lisa used a Hispanic slur
that we can’t even repeat to
describe the ex-Miss Venezuela on
Sirius XM radio, Dayana reacted. “As
a Latina, Lisa’s words aren’t just
offensive to me, but to millions of
other individuals. [She’s] degrading
an entire Hispanic culture,” she said.
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