Salma Hayek Wet-Nurses in Africa

Actress Salma Hayek nursed a starving baby in front of an ABC News crew while on a trip to Sierra Leone in support of a tetanus vaccination project. She did this, she told the camera crew, in compassion for a starving child, but also to help lift a breastfeeding stigma in Africa, where men think that women cannot have sex while still nursing. "So the husbands, of course, of these women are really encouraging them to stop," Hayek said.

The mother of this baby boy is an obvious victim of this stigma. Hayek intervened with her emergency nursing because the mother simply had no milk. While the child, who was born the same day as Hayek's own daughter, will need a lot more nursing to make it safely out of infancy, Hayek's gesture could help relieve the African situation.

For those in the United States, Hayek has crossed many stigma lines as well. Cross-nursing or wet-nursing, in which one woman occasionally suckles another's baby, has long been considered a taboo in America. The later even denotes classism. Despite the taboo, cross-nursing has been on the rise. Nadya Suleman, mother of the octuplets, has been receiving breast milk donations to help feed her newborns.

Experts say that the cross-nursing taboo has nothing to do with class, but the safety of the mother and child. Even organizations that support sharing of breast milk do so conditionally, through the intermediary breast-pump. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which screens and distributes donated milk to hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, requires that its milk be pasteurized before distribution. The child Hayek nursed was reportedly healthy, and Hayek is reported to show no signs of illness.

No matter the outcome of Hayek's actions, the video has become an overnight internet sensation, reaching record views on YouTube. EW.com gave the clip its "biggest eyebrow-raiser" of the day award.

Sigourney Weaver Performs Live Basic Instinct Show

There is nothing like a bunch of women sitting around gossiping. But often it's not what they say but what they do that is more interesting. If you missed The View on ABC today you did yourself a favor. You will sleep well tonight.

You'd hope a woman of 59 would have the whole 'class' thing down by now but Sigourney Weaver's upskirt flash on live TV startled everyone who had their eyes open. I may have nightmares just thinking about it. I'm certain this is the View's plan in attempting to force men not to tune in during the day.

The incident occurred when Sigourney went for a couch hug with Joy Behar the show's resident angry woman - outlasting Rosie O'Donnell in the shows dual angry woman phase. So offering Joy a little love made perfect sense as angry women need love too. It seems that Sigourney wanted to make the most of the moment.

I'll try not to close my eyes tonight when I sleep. Unfortunately now you may have a hard time sleeping tonight too.

Diane Sawyer Lowers the Bar on Journalism!

This montage is priceless! ABC's shrill and haughty Diane Sawyer showed up to work today at ABC drunk as a skunk! What's better is the dumb azzes at ABC put her on the air! She didn't sober up throughout the telecast.

Sing it with me!

What do you do with a drunken Sawyer?
What do you do with a drunken Sawyer?
What do you do with a drunken Sawyer --Early in the morning!

Her description of the children as "some very teeny teeny citizens..." is to die for!


This couldn't have been any better if someone asked her what she thought of the Roman Empire? and she said.. 'Fug it' She was that drunk!

One more time from Diane.... "You wook absowootly bwootiful!"