Alyssa Milano is still baffled by all the criticism she sees women facing for breastfeeding their children in public.
The actress appeared on HuffPost Live for an interview Thursday and discussed her stance on the issue (she's pro-breastfeeding wherever). The interviewer started by sharing the photo Milano put on her Instagram that showed her breastfeeding her baby while wearing a Wonder Woman costume—what a way to multitask on Halloween LOL.
While many lauded the former Charmed star for her open sharing, some also criticized her for not keeping her private life off of social media. "It's so crazy to me how the mentality is so archaic where people are just not comfortable with women breast-feeding," she said. "Obviously it's because we've sexualized breasts to the point where people can't see past them being breasts or boobies or titties or whatever you want to call them."
Earlier in the week, Milano spoke candidly to host Wendy Williams about breastfeeding, emphasizing how breasts' original purpose was strictly for feeding. Williams argued that breasts are "more sexual than a feeding thing" and even referred to them as "fun bags."
"Breastfeeding is only a particular amount of time, [but] the rest of your life, your breasts are sexual things," Williams said.
"But biologically, they're not made for sexual things," Milano replied. "That's what we've done to them."
Although they debated the interesting topic, the actress and talk show host were anything but hostile. The conversation also included a discussion about Milano's new pixie cut, which she said she plunged into after dyeing her hair resulted in a lot of dead ends. Quick to cut off her hair, Milano admitted that her usual mentality is to take things slow, especially when it comes to losing baby weight.
"I always take my time losing the baby weight because there are so many more important things to be going through," she said. "I was 172 lbs. the day I gave birth to Isabella, which is exactly what I gained with my son [Milo]...So it was about 55 pounds [weight gain with each baby]!"