Mom drinking her own milk
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Tyra Banks’ hit show “America’s Next Top Model” has had its share of quirky contestants, but one of this season’s hopefuls may qualify as the most bizarre of all, after she admitted to the competition’s judges that she drinks her own breast milk.
The contestant, Claire, a 24-year-old native New Yorker, told host Banks that she wants to keep her breast milk flowing so that she can continue to nurse her daughter after she leaves the show.
But when asked by Banks if she’s FedExing the milk home to her baby – a common practice by mothers who are separated from their nursing children – Claire’s response was surprising.
“Right now I’m actually drinking it,” said the bikini-clad Claire, whose last name, like that of all contestants on the show, was not revealed by the show’s execs. “It tastes kind of like light soy milk.”
“Top Model” contestants are prohibited from talking directly to the media before they are eliminated from the competition, according to a show representative, but Claire answered questions via e-mail.
When asked what her reason was for drinking her breast milk, Claire said that she didn’t feel right just throwing it away.
“I drank my breast milk only during audition week because I did not want to waste it after putting all my effort into making and extracting it. Dumping milk just seems wrong,” Claire said, adding that at one point she was drinking two or three glasses of breast milk a day. “A mother’s milk is like liquid gold, so I also wanted the nutritional value back and to keep my immunity up.”
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