Chrissy Teigen Wants to ‘Normalize Formula’: ‘You Are Doing It Right If Your Baby Is Fed’

Continuing to share her journey with raw honesty, Chrissy Teigen took to Twitter with a simple message: “normalize formula.”

The mother and cookbook author shared a thread on the subject a few days after her Thanksgiving. “Ok I’m gonna say something and you all are definitely gonna make it a thing but here goes: normalize formula,” she wrote on Sunday, November 29. “Normalize breastfeeding is such a huge, wonderful thing. But I absolutely felt way more shame having to use formula because of lack of milk from depression and whatnot….”

She continued, “People have surrogates, people have trouble breastfeeding and all you hear as a new, anxious mom is how breast is best… ‘Normalize breastfeeding’ is great. ‘Normalize formula’ is great, too! so yeah. That’s all! Normalize formula! Your baby is gonna be BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT, AND OKAY,” she continued.

Teigen tweeted candidly about her own experiences breastfeeding, explaining that the pressure to produce enough milk actually made the situation worse. “I remember pumping my ASS OFF, highest mode, so often, because I didn’t trust milk was going into their mouths if I breastfed,” she wrote. “It drove me mad to the point I could only get an ounce. An ounce!”

The model continued by naming this topic her next “crusade.” “The stress of it, combined with the guilt that you cannot do nature’s most natural thing for your own baby is too much,” she said. “I dunno why this is my crusade now. I just remember the sadness I felt and want you to know you are doing it right if your baby is fed, mama.”

Chrissy Teigen’s tweets have been met with messages of support from other parents agreeing that keeping babies fed and mothers healthy is the most important thing.

Just a few days before these posts, Teigen opened up about her recent pregnancy loss. “When I’m old and grey, I will look back on the last two months as being brutal, exhausting, sad, physically challenging, mentally painful bitches of a couple months,” the model wrote on Instagram on November 27. “But I refuse to not find humor in both the rage-fits and the outfits.

“I already see the leaves as orange instead of grey, realized the sky is indeed blue and not black and horn honks on my forced morning walks only bring me to my knees half the time,” she continued. “I can make it up my stairs only stopping once or twice instead of every other, and can get out of the bathtub all by myself as long as I have the promise John will dry me off. Anyhow the point is, fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I think it’s happening.”

Originally Appeared on Glamour