Paper Monitor
11:38 UK time, Thursday, 20 January 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
What a commotion an obscured breast can cause. The breast in question belongs to model , who also happens to be Mrs Orlando Bloom and mother of two-week-old Flynn.
The happy couple have posted a picture of Ms Kerr breastfeeding their new son on their personal website. Young Flynn is covering most of one breast and a dressing gown is covering all of the other one, as well as the rest of Ms Kerr's body.
But it seems that when the underwear model isn't revealing her flesh on a catwalk, it becomes a hotly-debated subject. According to the Express, Ms Kerr is now in the middle of a "breastfeeding row" about whether or not mothers should breastfeed in public. With whom is not really clear.
The Daily Mail says "in a world where celebrity parents insist on introducing their babies to the world in big-money, glossy magazine deals, the picture marks a refreshing change". The refreshing bit for the Mail being that it hasn't had to fork out a fortune to buy the picture.
"BLOOMING' ECK" is the headline in the Mirror. The paper is rather confused. In a world where many celebrities moan on about privacy, why post a picture with your "boob out" it asks? Columnist Polly Hudson also admonishes them for "dishing all the birth dirt for anyone who cared to read it". That "dirt" being that it had been a "long, arduous and difficult" birth. Hardly the gory details.
Unusually, it's the Daily Star that takes the most measured approach to the picture. It takes it for what it is - a proud mum and dad presenting their new son to those who are interested. The Star being the voice of reason. Now that's not something that happens everyday.
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