Kate Upton Just Said What So Many New Moms Are Secretly Thinking About Breastfeeding
For Kate Upton, the hardest part of being a new mom was breastfeeding. In a new cover story for Editorialist, the supermodel opened up about how her life has changed since giving birth to her daughter, Genevieve, in November 2018, her first child with husband Justin Verlander.
Motherhood, for Kate, came with "so much pressure" during those first few months "to be doing all these things, like breastfeeding on the go." Breastfeeding didn't come easily for her, either. "The reality, for me, was that breastfeeding was sucking the energy away from me," Kate said. "I realized I needed to calm down, to allow my body to recover."
It's not the model's first time opening up about her experience with breastfeeding, having previously bonded with Kelly Clarkson over how difficult it was. "The hormones are crazy," she told Kelly on The Kelly Clarkson Show in September. "And no one talks about it. The hormones after pregnancy, for me, were crazier than when I was pregnant, and it took forever for them to calm down, like months after breastfeeding."
Having long been vocal about things like Photoshopping in the modeling industry, Kate isn't about to pretend life as a new mom is picture-perfect, either. "Women are bombarded with this push to be perfect all the time," Kate told Editorialist. "We went from Photoshopping covers on magazines to Photoshopping our everyday lives—you know, a picture of you at the grocery store. It's getting more extreme, literally people changing their face with plastic surgery. The industry has to be the trendsetter, to show there's more than just having the perfect brand or messaging. We don't need that in our lives. We need connections."
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