Supermodel Doutzen Kroes Promotes Breastfeeding By Sharing Intimate Photo On Instagram

Doutzen Kroes Wants To Highlight The 'Scandal' Surrounding Breasts With This Breastfeeding Photo
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Doutzen Kroes has made a stand for "normalising" public breastfeeding, by sharing an Instagram photo showing her feeding her 10-month-old daughter, Myllena.

The photo comes not long after Nicole Trunfio made headlines in May for breastfeeding her son on the front cover of Elle Australia.

Kroes shared the photo on her Instagram account, with the caption: "Sweet dreams #blessed".

Kroes is a Dutch model and actress. She has two children with her DJ husband, Sunnery James - Phyllon, four, and Myllena.

The initial breastfeeding snap brought in 98,000 likes, but Kroes didn't stop there.

The model then reposted her breastfeeding photo alongside a photo of her modelling a push-up bra.

She wanted to highlight the "scandal" surrounding breasts.

The 30-year-old wrote: "Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality”, which is originally a quote from a feminist, and political science professor Iris Marion Young.

The second photo Kroes posted has already reached 110,000 likes.

One commenter, @rosaliebend, wrote: "Thank you for your promotion of breastfeeding!" and others thanked the supermodel for sharing such a "natural" photo.

Actresses Olivia Wilde and Angelina Jolie have both previously modelled on magazine covers breastfeeding their children.

This isn't the first time Kroes used Instagram to "promote" breastfeeding.

Back in April, she posted a photo of her "daily routine" with a breast pump.

She wrote: "Daily routine! I’m promoting breastfeeding, it’s the best for your baby when possible! #breastfeeding#breastpump #breastfeedingmom#breastfeedingawareness."

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."
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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.
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