Actress Olivia Wilde welcomed baby Otis with fiancé Jason Sudeikis in April, and in the September issue of Glamour magazine, the new mom talks about her experience breastfeeding. Accompanying the interview, is a stunning image of her nursing him [below].
Wilde's cover debuts during World Breastfeeding Week, an annual celebration promoting breastfeeding awareness worldwide. The actress joins other celebrities who have also shared photos in order to normalize the sight of breastfeeding and show support for other nursing mothers.
For more celebrities, including Giselle Bundchen and Yaya Dacosta, pictured breastfeeding in the past, check out this post.
Excerpts from the cover story and more photos below...
Olivia Wilde says on being photographed with her son;
“Being shot with Otis is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn’t complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that. Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don’t know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast."On her first marriage...
"It felt like we were capturing that multifaceted woman we’ve been discussing, that we know we can be. You can be someone who is at once maternal and professional and sexy and self-possessed. [But] I mean, I certainly don’t really look like that when I’m [typically] breastfeeding. And there’s usually a diaper involved.”
"[I] wouldn't be this person without that first marriage. I really grew up with my first husband. Now I'm in a much wiser, more centered place in life. I think if we can see people in our lives as chapters, we have a much healthier perspective about the whole thing. It's like it had to happen the way it happened. Jason and I lived two blocks away from each other for years and never met."
On whether she and fiancé Jason Sudeikis are getting married...
"We're engaged, but no specific plans yet—we just have to find the time to put it together. In many ways, a child is more of a commitment. We are fully committed and really happy as a family. And there's no definition of the 'normal family' anymore. Kids today are growing up with so many different definitions of family. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel any pressure to do it. But I think it will be really fun."
On her earlier roles...
"I felt that I had been cast in films that, though I was very excited to be a part of, didn't feel that they were actually the right roles for me. I felt like I was almost a fraud—like I somehow had become a kind of pinup version of myself."
On whether she worried it would be hard to be a working mother...
"No, because of the example of my mom. My mom is such a badass working mother. That inspired me when I was pregnant. I wasn't going to sacrifice myself because I was becoming a mother."
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