But if breast-feeding is taboo in Africa, cross-nursing in which one woman suckles another's baby is taboo in the U.S. While crunchy sites like Mothering.com have exploded with hundreds of erratic posts praising Hayek for dignifying the cause of breast-feeding, plenty of online reactions were more squeamish.
Although offering breast milk is becoming more mainstream Nadya Suleman's octuplets have been consuming donated milk cross-nursing still conjures up the specter of wet-nursing, with all its class issues and outmoded notions about women's bodies yoked in service to others. The official word on cross-nursing is still objectionable. It seems that no institution, even those that support milk-sharing, is willing to give the nod women who offer their milk without a breast pump serving as an intermediary. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which screens and distributes donated milk to hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, insists that banked milk be pasteurized before being allotted.
"Babies gainfrom human milk donated by other mothers when their own mother's milk is unavailable," La Leche League says in its cross-nursing and wet-nursing statement. But, the statement continues, the group's breast-feeding advocates "shall not ever suggest an informal milk-donation compromise, including wet-nursing or cross-nursing."
La Leche's concerns include the possibility of transmitting infections, a drop in supply for the donor's own baby, psychological confusion on the part of the infant and the fact that the composition of breast milk changes as children get older.
But as guessing that Hayek wasn't at risk of contracting anything from the baby who Hayek reported was healthy but whose mother simply had no milk none of these possibilities seem applicable. Hayek's emergency nursing more closely resembles Chinese policewoman Jiang Xiaojuan's heroic breast-feeding of several babies orphaned by the May earthquake, and few would disagree she was anything but a lifesaver.
Sure, it was only one feeding, and that baby who was born on the same day as Hayek's daughter will need a lot more milk to see him safely out of infancy. But perhaps Hayek's expression will indeed make a difference to the breast-feeding cause in Africa. And if nothing else, the world's cross-nursers deep equated with wet nurses and made to feel shame for their hippie ways suddenly have the most glamorous spokeswoman they could ever have thought up.
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How She Became a Famous Superstar
Salma, this beautiful actress, became famous in her native Mexican Country in the popular soap opera 'Teresa' having dropped out of Mexico City University. Her first break in Hollywood came in the 1995 film 'Desperado' directed by cult Texan film director 'Robert Rodriguez.
Hayek was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Cocteau in Louisiana and afterwards to live in Houston, Texas, with her aunt. In 1991 she relocated to Los Angeles, California, to study acting having dropped her aspirations of becoming an Olympic gymnast. After 'Desperado' she starred very successfully in 'From Dusk till Dawn' and the Wil Smith's film, 'Wild Wild West'. In 2002 she starred in the lead role in 'Frida' which she also interestingly co-produced which awarded her an Academy Award nomination for best actress. In 'Frida' she starred along the side of such Hollywood great's as Antonio Banderas , Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton and Valeria Golino.
My all time favorite film of hers has to be the romantic comedy "Fools Rush In" - which was filmed between New York, Las Vegas and Mexico. It is the story about a young couple who meet by pure luck and eventually fall in love. It is also the story of the conflict of their two cultures.
Salma, the Arabic word for calm, has a beautiful face coupled with an hourglass figure and a sugar sweet smile. When you roll that up with her Hispanic looks and Latino accent to her voice you are left with a totally impressive Hollywood star.
What a stunning looking woman she is!

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