The View hostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned on October 19 from maternity leave — and had a funny anecdote about a revealing photo.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck deserves points for calling out her own blunders. She returned to her seat on The View on October 19, after being on maternity leave with her new son Isaiah. The leave included baby pictures – one, in particular, she said, that created some embarrassment.
“You know when your baby smiles for the first time?” she said to View co-hosts. “I reach for the iPhone — I had just been feeding him — and I took the photo. And he had this huge, huge smile and it was the cutest picture, so immediately I forward it to everyone on my family distribution list. I get home and I open up the photo…No wonder why he is smiling, because my nipple is in the photo!”
Hasselbeck’s bare breast was partially on view in a picture with her newborn – an image that she’ll probably keep out of future scrapbooks.
“It’s worse than drunk dialing to forward pictures post-partum,” she said told her co-hostesses.
Hasselbeck herself hasn’t been tied to plastic surgery by rumor or confirmation, though it is true that she is now the mother of three. And, after hearing her story about the picture, it’s also true that she is nursing.
The hostess hasn’t been reported as having had breast augmentation – such as breast implants – but mothers who have had it are advised against nursing. A study from the Institute of Medicine found that breast augmentation renders a woman three times less likely to provide an infant with an adequate supply of milk.
And, aside from nursing issues, Hasselbeck joins many celebrity mothers who face the consideration of plastic surgery as a way of regaining their pre-pregnancy figure. She may soon examine the prospects of the “mommy makeover,” which offers new mothers cosmetic procedures on body parts that sustain the effects of pregnancy. This includes the breast lift, tummy tuck or many manners of liposuction.
Hasselbeck may not opt for any of these — but if she does, it may not be wise to pull out the iPhone and capture the results in pictures.
