# Salma Hayek's Boobs Save The World
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624 "2009-02-13T01:19:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/1 "2009-02-13T01:19:44Z")
Subtitle: Dopers are slacking on the news front, why wasn’t I informed of this?
So I just found out that Selma Hayek breastfed a malnourished Sierra Leonnian baby on camera in an attempt to reverse the breastfeeding stigma in that country. To which I only have to say, “Woo-hoo!”
And, of course, “lucky baby!” 😃
> **[Salma Hayek On Why She Breastfed Another Woman's Baby](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6854285&page=1)**
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> Actress and mother Salma Hayek journeys to Sierra Leone to fight a devastating disease for babies and mothers: tetanus. Hayek, who has teamed up with Pampers and UNICEF to fight the disease in Africa, also breastfeeds another mother's newborn infant.
(My apologies if this was already covered and I missed it.)
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/2 "2009-02-13T01:22:03Z")
Two cheers! Tit tit hooray!
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/3 "2009-02-13T01:27:19Z")
I have always loved her, and now there’s even more reason to. You go, girl!
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/4 "2009-02-13T01:27:28Z")
There was [a great article in the January 19, 2009 issue of the New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore) about breast feeding, breast pumps and how pressure to not breast feed had resulted in higher infant mortality. The baffling part is why anyone would think this odd? Milk from another healthy nursing mother is still more healthy than formula or cow’s milk for an infant. We’re mammals - get over it! More power to her!
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### Author:  [@hopesperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hopesperson)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/5 "2009-02-13T01:31:23Z")
My right butt cheek once saved a kitten stuck in a tree, but am I all over ABC news? Harumph.
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### Author:  [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/6 "2009-02-13T01:34:45Z")
> [@hopesperson](#):
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> My right butt cheek once saved a kitten stuck in a tree, but am I all over ABC news? Harumph.
Do your ass cheeks look like Salma Hayek’s boobs? 'Cuz if they do then I totally agree - a travesty, sham, and mockery of justice.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/7 "2009-02-13T01:36:56Z")
Should I be embarrassed to say that I watched the video for all the wrong reasons?
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### Author:  [@hopesperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hopesperson)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/8 "2009-02-13T01:37:39Z")
> [@Ol\_Gaffer](#):
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> Do your ass cheeks look like Salma Hayek’s boobs? 'Cuz if they do then I totally agree - a travesty, sham, and mockery of justice.
A passing resemblance, with enough Vaseline on the lens.
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/9 "2009-02-13T01:43:50Z")
> [@hopesperson](#):
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> A passing resemblance, with enough Vaseline on the lens.
Q-How do you make 10 lbs of fat look attractive?
A-Put a nipple on it.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/10 "2009-02-13T01:44:32Z")
You know, I’m kind of hungry. Where’s Selma when I need her, huh?
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/11 "2009-02-13T02:28:35Z")
This thread is not at all what I thought it was going to be about.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/12 "2009-02-13T02:32:02Z")
Sure she saved humanity. But what about the kittens?
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### Author:  [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/13 "2009-02-13T02:37:33Z")
I feel obliged to emphasize that the actress’ first name is spelled “Salma.”
“Selma,” on the other hand, was the chain-smoking bailiff from _Night Court._
> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> You know, I’m kind of hungry. Where’s Selma when I need her, huh?
[Knock yourself out…](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2495)
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### Author:  [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/14 "2009-02-13T03:21:20Z")
> [@gaffa](#):
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> There was [a great article in the January 19, 2009 issue of the New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore) about breast feeding, breast pumps and how pressure to not breast feed had resulted in higher infant mortality. The baffling part is why anyone would think this odd? Milk from another healthy nursing mother is still more healthy than formula or cow’s milk for an infant. We’re mammals - get over it! More power to her!
Thanks for that! It actually references the hospital where I just completed nursing school. I did my Role Transition Practicum in Postpartum, where they told me that the Mother’s Milk Club was world-famous. I guess they were right.
I wonder if women sharing their milk, either by breast or donating bottles, will become more common in the future. It’s a little bit taboo right now, but it could help a lot of people.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/15 "2009-02-13T03:31:29Z")
> [@gaffa](#):
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> There was [a great article in the January 19, 2009 issue of the New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore) about breast feeding, breast pumps and how pressure to not breast feed had resulted in higher infant mortality. The baffling part is why anyone would think this odd?
Because for decades women were convinced that Medical Science was the best thing for their babies, and that artificial food and artificial feeding schedules that were Scientifically Designed were the healthiest best options available. Even today, even \*pasteurized \*donated breastmilk is discouraged by most doctors, because there is bacteria in mother’s milk that could potentially make someone else’s baby sick (presumably, your own baby shares your microbial pool). Women to this day are warned against wet nurses or nursing their friend’s child, and told that formula is the better choice if you can’t make your own milk. (Note that the article you linked to reported that a child drinking someone else’s bottle at daycare “should be treated just as if an accidental exposure to other bodily fluids had occurred.”)
Many African countries (I don’t know about Sierra Leone specifically) also suffer from the Anglophile syndrome, where what Western mothers do is of higher status, and someone who can afford formula has a higher status than the lowly mother forced to breastfeed. Formula manufacturers worked that angle hard in the 70’s and 80’s in their marketing materials to African nations. As a result, there were (are) babies dropping dead from malnutrition from watered down formula and dying of dysentery from contaminated water used to make formula because of their mothers’ vanity and misplaced desire to do what they thought was right.
That’s why what Salma (thanks for the correction) did is so awesome: a beautiful, rich, successful, high status Western woman was \*openly \*breastfeeding one of “their” babies. Think of the message that sends. If _Salma Hayak_ thinks breastfeeding is okay, maybe it’s not low class and gross after all!
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/16 "2009-02-13T04:04:56Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#):
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> A-Put a nipple on it.
You missspelled ‘modified sweat gland.’
I’ve never been a big fan of her work\*, but this is cool.
\*Except the snake dance in From Dusk till Dawn, that rocked
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### Author:  [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/17 "2009-02-13T04:17:32Z")
That is awesome. I’ve had to supplement my own breastmik with formula, but a friend of mine from our Bradley class also gives us all her extra milk so my baby can get as much breastmilk as possible. I know some people think it’s strange, but I think it’s wonderful.
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### Author:  [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/18 "2009-02-13T04:20:37Z")
> [@WhyNot](#):
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> Women to this day are warned against wet nurses or nursing their friend’s child, and told that formula is the better choice if you can’t make your own milk. (Note that the article you linked to reported that a child drinking someone else’s bottle at daycare “should be treated just as if an accidental exposure to other bodily fluids had occurred.”)
While I agree with most of your comments, I think it is important to note that this part isn’t because doctors think breastfeeding is gross. It is because diseases like HIV can be transmitted through breast milk.
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### Author:  [@Jorge\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge_Burrito)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/19 "2009-02-13T04:22:51Z")
Is there anything her breasts can’t do?
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salma-hayeks-boobs-save-the-world/485624/20 "2009-02-13T04:25:19Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#):
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> While I agree with most of your comments, I think it is important to note that this part isn’t because doctors think breastfeeding is gross. It is because diseases like HIV can be transmitted through breast milk.
Of course. That’s what I said. (Well, okay, I said “bacteria,” and HIV is a virus.) It’s also a very delicate virus, destroyed by the heat of pasteurization, and should not be a realistic worry from pasteurized milk bank milk.
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