The TalkAlyssa Milano had received mixed reactions for posting a photo of herself breastfeeding baby daughter Elizabella Dylan and she recently fired back at her critics again, saying she finds it "crazy" the people get upset about seeing a mother nursing her child.
The Who's the Boss?, Charmed and Mistresses alum and Project Runway All Stars host had shared the pic on Twitter, where she has more than 2.77 million followers, on Oct. 27. She and husband David Bugliari are also parents to son Milo, 3. Milano spoke about the breastfeeding pic and reactions to it on The Talk earlier this week.
"This is crazy to me, but not everybody was a fan of it. So were you surprised by their reactions?" co-host Sara Gilbert asked.
"I was, because I got really sad about it," Milano replied. "Because...who are we, that now we get upset as human beings if we see a woman feeding her baby? It's crazy to me. Crazy, crazy, crazy."
"But I just think, 'Where are we that this has now become offensive?'" she later added. "So not only is it beautiful, but it's also a necessity. I'm feeding my kid."
Milano had posted her breastfeeding pic more than a week after Kim Kardashian set off to "break the Internet" with a naked photo shoot for Paper magazine, which features the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star posing and showing her bare behind on the cover.
One day after the first and latter pic was posted online, Milano tweeted, "Wait! I don't get it. No disrespect to Kim but... people are offended by my breastfeeding selfies & are fine with her (amazing) booty cover?"
She then added, "I mean...it really is an unbelievable ass."
Kardashian's photo was brought up on The Talk during Milano's interview.
"Meanwhile, we gotta look at Kim Kardashian's butt all over the place," said co-host Aisha Tyler.
"That was my point," Milano said.
"Like that's less offensive," Tyler replied.
"Everyone thought she was so brave," Milano said. "Like, OK."
Kardashian has not commented.
Watch Milano's interview on The Talk below.
Milano has said postive things about the reality star. In 2013, she took to Twitter to compliment Kardashian, who was pregnant with daughter North West at the time, about her maternity look.
@Alyssa_Milano wow thank you so much!!! That's so sweet!
? Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) March 23, 2013Milano did receive a slew of positive reactions to her breastfeeding photo as well, including on E! Online.
"I am all for breast feeding, but WHY do these celebrity moms feel the need to display this intimate moment, all over the internet ??" one person asked in the comments section, to which another replied, "Because it normalizes it. When a nursing mother is told to go to a closed door area to feed her child, we have a problem."
Another commentator wrote, "I've always liked her as an actress and this is showing a different side of her as a person. You go Alyssa!!!"
Milano had also received positive feedback on Twitter, including from women who shared their own breastfeeding photos.
"But the coolest part of the whole thing, the coolest part without a doubt, is that I got so much support from the women that do breastfeed, and if you're on Twitter and you go into my 'Favorites,' you'll see, I got hundreds, I favorited all of them, I got hundreds of selfies of women breastfeeding—'brealfies—that they sent me in solidary and support and it was so lovely," she said on The Talk.
Among the positive reactions: "@Alyssa_Milano thank you for helping to #normalizebreastfeeding you're amazing," "@Alyssa_Milano if someone isn't comfortable, then stop looking #normalizebreastfeeding," "@Alyssa_Milano one day old and we are doing great! #normalizebreastfeeding" and "I support @Alyssa_Milano! Did everyone forget Charmed season 7 'Bare Witch Project'? #NormalizeBreastfeeding."
In a season-seven episode of Charmed, which aired in 2004, Milano's character, the good witch Phoebe, and sister Piper, played by Holly Marie Combs, are refused service at a coffee shop after the latter breastfeeds her child inside. Phoebe later channels Lady Godiva by appearing nude on horseback in public in a bid to make a statement.
"This man is living in the 11th century," she says. "He wants women to be barefoot and pregnant and stay at home. He thinks we should be ashamed of breastfeeding, the most natural thing in the world. Well, shame on him. I'm not ashamed and neither should you be."