Washington
(ANI):
Mexican/American
actress
Salma
Hayek
has
revealed
that
she
breastfed
the
starving
baby
of
another
woman,
who
could
not
produce
milk,
during
a
trip
to
Sierra
Leone.
According
to
Huffington
Post
website,
Hayek
had
last
year
revealed
that
she
was
so
addicted
to
breastfeeding
her
baby
daughter
Valentina,
she
felt
"like
an
alcoholic".
She
recently
helped
a
desperate
mum
in
a
refugee
camp
during
a
UNICEF
fact-finding
trip,
and
revealed
it
on
the
Today
show
in
America
when
host
Kathie
Lee
Gifford
asked
her
about
it.
"You
found
a
child
that
was
starving
to
death,
the
mother
had
no
milk
and
you
nursed
that
baby?"
Nodding
her
head,
Hayek
added:
"It's
about
women
sticking
together
and
we
really
need
to
help
the
children
in
any
way
we
can," Contactmusic
quoted
her
as
saying.
And
now
the
actress
is
fighting
to
promote
breastfeeding
in
Africa
-
because
it
helps
boost
the
immune
systems
of
at-risk
babies.
"It
is
the
best
thing
you
can
do
for
your
child,
not
only
the
bonding,
that's
how
you
build
the
immune
system,
so
in
a
country
like
Africa
imagine
how
important
it
is
for
the
mothers
to
do
that," she
said.
"But
there
is
the
belief
that
if
you
are
breastfeeding
you
cannot
have
a
sexual
life,
so
the
husbands
of
these
women
are
really
encouraging
them
to
stop
and
this
is
just
a
taboo,"
she
added.