Katie Hopkins Slammed For 'Hateful' Comments About Tamara Ecclestone's Breastfeeding Photo

Katie Hopkins Slammed For 'Hateful' Comments About Mums And Breastfeeding
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 9: Katie Hopkins seen leaving the ITV Studios after an appearance on 'Loose Women' on February 9, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle/GC Images)

Katie Hopkins has slammed Tamara Ecclestone for her public breastfeeding photo that sparked a public debate, as well as the "Mammary Mafia" in general.

Ecclestone recently sparked controversy after sharing a photo of her breastfeeding her daughter, Sophia, but Hopkins hit back saying that she "can't stand" it.

"Why do breastfeeders have to do it in coffee shops? You can smell the breast milk mixed in with your latte.

"And why do they post snaps online, like Tamara – what a donut."

But Ecclestone is probably far from affected by Hopkins' claim, after she said on This Morning on 22 June that she is "over trying to please anyone".

The mother to one-year-old Sophia said: "I just do whatever feels right and I think as a mum you just follow your instinct of what feels right to you.

"I’m completely obsessed with my daughter, sorry everyone all I do is post pictures of her - and my husband took the picture and I loved it."

Members of the public on Twitter were keen to disagree with Hopkins for slamming Ecclestone and breastfeeding in general.

Another user wrote: "I would rather see a mother breastfeeding, than look at Katie Hopkin's spoiled brat face."

While one person questioned whether she was simply doing this for publicity.

She tweeted: "Katie Hopkins has to be some kind of TV stunt. Nobody is this hateful, "I loathe all breastfeeders". It's ridiculous."

Is she simply trying to get noticed? Thoughts?

Breastfeeding Photos
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Ashlee Wells Jacksons' "4th Trimester Bodies Project" embraces the changes brought to women’s bodies by motherhood. Above, is a photo of herself and her baby.

Says Jackson: "I see beautiful, inspiring, real women on a daily basis who struggle with their body image because they don’t feel they measure up with who the media tells them to be... So much more needs to be done in our society to embrace body positivity and normalize breastfeeding."
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In the September 2014 issue of Glamour magazine, actress Olivia Wilde said: "Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast."
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Photographer Jade Beall takes portraits, like this one, that celebrate moms' bodies for her project, "A Beautiful Body."
via A Beautiful Body Book Project
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In 2012, singer P!nk shared this gorgeous photo of herself nursing baby Willow Sage on Instagram and Twitter. (credit:Pink/Instagram)
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In 2014, singer Gwen Stefani posted a beautiful Instagram photo of herself feeding her son Apollo in Switzerland. (credit:Gwen Stefani/Instagram)
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Russian model Natalia Vodianova debuted her son Maxim to the world with this stunning breastfeeding photo in June 2014. (credit:Natalia Vodianova/Instagram)
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This photo is from Vanessa Simmons' Normalize Breastfeeding campaign. Says Simmons: "If [women] read other stories, then it becomes more normal like, 'Oh, I'm going through that exact same thing.' Or, 'My baby's screaming their head off at six weeks and I can't figure out why,'... Sharing those stories enables women to be able to connect." Read more about Normalize Breastfeeding here.
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This photo is from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This image is also from Leilani Rogers' Public Breastfeeding Awareness Project. Read more about it here.
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This picture is from HuffPost blogger Jillayna Adamson' "Breastfeeding is Beautiful" series. See more images, and read about it here.
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HuffPost blogger Jamie Davis Smith wrote about her difficulty breastfeeding her first child, and what the experience was like. Read her blog post here.
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In a blog post where this image was featured, author Mama Bean writes, "We are continually sold The Ideal; the picture-perfect, fully-clothed, fully made-up portrait of Motherhood... And yet in the real world, motherhood takes a far more literal shape; a far more physical form. It may well be slim, trim and toned... just as it may be rounded, softened and stretched. And yet, this second and more common reality is hidden and censored by default, as if motherhood is somehow something to shelter from."

Read the full post here.
(credit:Paulina Splechta Photography)