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Moms Are Living For These Videos of Chrissy Teigen Saving Her Spilled Breast Milk


Back in December, Chrissy Teigen mused on Twitter about what she would grab if she needed to escape a fire in her home. At the time, all she could come up with were her daughter Luna, “some limited edition Oreos and my spike tv award.” As seen in another series of tweets this week, however, it seems that Teigen’s found another thing she’d go to any lengths to save: her breast milk. (And, you know, probably her newborn son Miles, too.)

On Wednesday, the model and cookbook author shared two videos in which she and a friend use a syringe, a turkey baster, and what looks like a shoehorn or some kind of spatula in a (mostly futile) attempt to salvage a small amount of breast milk that spilled out of her breast pump bottle and onto a table. “Spilled my breast milk, and this is how important it is in this house,” Teigen says in one of the videos. “I am so jealous of people with plentiful boobies,” she captioned one clip on Twitter, writing alongside the other, “EVERY DROP COUNTS IN THIS HOUSE.”

Since Teigen posted the silly but all-too-real clips online, many of her fellow moms have shared their own stories of doing whatever is necessary to save even the tiniest amount of spilled breast milk. Some, like Teigen, have turned to syringes to recover the milk, while several others wrote about soaking it up with paper towels and wringing them out into a bottle. The replies to Teigen’s tweets were a rare space of almost nothing but positive and supportive internet comments — all of which seemed to agree that it actually is OK to cry over spilled milk when it comes to that “liquid gold.”

This isn’t the first time since Teigen and husband John Legend welcomed Miles in May that moms everywhere have applauded Teigen for getting real about the struggles of breastfeeding. While he and his wife were heading to dinner in honor of Father’s Day the following month, Legend shared a photo of Teigen pumping in the backseat of a car, prompting countless responses from fans who were thrilled to see the stars getting real about the less glamorous parts of parenthood. Keep it up, you two!

Related: Chrissy Teigen Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Her Favorite Instagram Shots





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Chrissy Teigen Just Called Out a Man for Taking Pictures of Her Breast Pumping


From “shitty friends” who sell stories to tabloids, to an online forum dedicated to trashing her, Chrissy Teigen has had to call out more than her fair share of toxic people. This time, the creep in question is a man who allegedly took pictures of her while she pumped breast milk in her car.

“Also to the man who took photos into our car as I was topless and pumping you can go f*ck yourself if you sell them,” the author/model/Lip Sync Battle host wrote in a couple of now-deleted tweets, according to Entertainment Tonight. “If I wanted to show you my salami nipples I’d show you my salami nipples on my own doing!”

Teigen elaborated on her thoughts about the situation in replies to other Twitter users. In response to a fan who suggested she share a breast-pumping pic herself to take the “wind outta that fools[‘] sails,” she wrote, “Oh I am definitely happy to! It’s most of my day ? just so creepy to be sitting in a car, dark out, and see flashes and a dude.”

Unfortunately, she also had to do a call-out within a call-out when another Twitter user defended the man’s decision to take pictures. “Yes jerry. Die on this hill,” she wrote. “This is what you should stand up for. A man’s right to shoot his camera into my (tinted) car. This is a great cause.”

The incident took place just three days after she had to fend off online hate about a breastfeeding photo she willingly shared herself. “Christ in a hand basket,” one self-styled Internet critic wrote. “Menstruating, childbirth and sex are natural, too, but that doesn’t mean I want to see pics of it and/or celebrities like @chrissyteigen taking a bath or nursing. We get it.”

“I don’t care to see grainy fireworks, coachella selfies or infinity pool pics but i let people live. calm your tits and scroll on by,” Teigen replied.

“Calm your tits and scroll on by,” indeed. And don’t take pictures of women without their permission!





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The Ocean's 8 Cast Insisted They Stop Filming So Anne Hathaway Could Pump Her Breast Milk


Not only has Ocean’s 8 hit number one at the box office, but the behind-the-scenes stories that have come to light during the film’s press tour have made it number one in our hearts, especially the ones about the all-star cast having each other’s backs. The most recent tale of women supporting women on the set of the film comes from Anne Hathaway, who revealed that the cast demanded that they stop filming so that she could pump her breast milk.

In an interview on Today with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, new mom Hathaway, who appeared with fellow actresses Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Mindy Kaling, and Cate Blanchett, discussed the solid her costars did her when it came time to pump. “I was so happy because I was breastfeeding and I had that moment where I was like, ‘Oh, is this going to be a positive environment to be able to do that in?’ Everybody was fantastic and they understood,” she said. “I remember there was one moment where we were shooting a little long, and I just kind of went, ‘Uhhh,’ and the girls were like ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry, I should have pumped an hour ago.’ And the girls just, like, formed around me, and they were like, ‘We need a break. We need a break. Annie needs to go do this.’ And it was just, like, I mean, who gets that?”

Hathaway was quick to point out that everyone should get that kind of support, no matter where they work or who their coworkers are.

The women also said in the interview that they became each other’s resources for parenting and general life tips, like where to get Halloween costumes for their children (just don’t ask for Blanchett’s help—she hand-makes hers). And previously, Hathaway has said that Bullock, Blanchett, and Rihanna all made her feel more comfortable in her post-baby body when she showed up on set in a new pair of jeans and all three complimented her look. “Damn, girl! You got an ass!” Rihanna said, according to Hathaway.

Let’s hope there’s a sequel to Ocean’s 8 just so this group of women can hang out more. Watch the full interview, below.

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Related: Jessica Alba Just Shared a Photo of Herself Breastfeeding Her Newborn Son at Work



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I Was Fighting Breast Cancer as an Underinsured Woman, and I Couldn't Get the Care I Needed to Live


“I’ll do whatever I have to do to get out of here,” Nikki “Trip” Triplet, 39, remembers thinking when she showed up at one clinic for breast cancer testing. But the self-employed, under-insured Texan wasn’t talking about fighting and surviving breast cancer. She was talking about getting out of that particular run-down facility. She was determined to receive her care in a cleaner, better-managed medical center than her bare bones government-issued insurance allowed.

“I needed chemo once a week but they had it scheduled every six to eight weeks because that was how long it would take to get an appointment,” Triplet tells Glamour. “When I tell you ‘sometimes you almost die before you get treatment,’ it’s not a joke. When it comes to cancer and the medical world, you’re poor unless you’re rich.”

Triplet says that financial discrimination was her toughest fight when she was battling breast cancer. Tougher than the white women who wouldn’t move their purses so a black woman—accompanied by her girlfriend, no less—could sit down next to them in a waiting room. Tougher than the doctor who said, “I’m pretty sure you’re not going to be milking any babies with those.”

courtesy Nikki Triplet

“If you are not insured, then you might as well be Black or Hispanic or gay or a lesbian because you will be treated just like we are treated every day,” she says. “But being insurance-less is the new black.”

Once she was diagnosed, Triplet, a real estate agent, says she and her girlfriend called medical offices endlessly, trying to find the right words to say in order to get her the help she needed. When she heard, “We don’t take your insurance,” she’d say, “I’m sure somebody else there does.” When she heard, “Your girlfriend can’t come in the room,” she’d say, “Oh, good thing she’s my best friend, so now she can come in.”

“We would put on the pressure on anyway that we could,” Triplet says. It paid off—eventually, she landed in the hands Jamie E. Terry, MD, who specializes in breast surgery at Texas Breast Specialists-Houston Medical Center, and received excellent care. Triplet can’t rave enough about Dr. Terry. So now she advocates for others to stand up for themselves and get the physicians they deserve.

“I want all Black people, all broke people, all gay people to know: you gotta take a whole bunch of nos to get to yes,” she says. “But I don’t want anybody giving up.”

And words matter. That’s one of the most important lessons Triplet learned on her cancer journey. But she also learned how to speak without saying anything at all. She just smiles—to reveal a gold grill that says “FUCK CANCER.”

“It’s offensive awareness,” she says. “I want as many people who can be offended to be offended by it. Because I was offended when cancer picked me. I was offended that I was going to lose my hair. I was offended by the things that I was about to go through that I wasn’t prepared for.” It’s a reminder to everyone that cancer can happen to anyone.

After multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, Triplet will continue to take a once-a-day pill for three more years as part of her battle. “Cancer broke me down,” admits the advocate for Avon (she’s also a state leader for the Young Survival Coalition in Texas). “But at the same time it built me up. I became the person I didn’t know that I was supposed to be.”

“Never for one minute believe that you must defend [what happens in] your bedroom or [what’s in] your bank account in order to defend your breasts—or your life.”



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My Dad Had Just Died from Cancer—Then I Got Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Too


When Homa Sadat’s father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010, her family, including her mother and seven siblings, watched him shrink from 187 pounds to 118. Every day after work she would put on a brave face and visit her dad to lift his spirits. Then she’d head to the bathroom, close the door and cry from feeling so helpless. “With pancreatic cancer, you usually find out at the last stage,” says Sadat, a 33-year-old former property manager who lives in Los Angeles. “There was nothing we could do.”

Her dad passed away in 2011. “Seeing him go through that was really hard on me—we were really close,” says Sadat. “I saw what cancer and chemotherapy could do to someone.”

Because of her father’s illness, Sadat was persistent about checking her own body for signs anything was off, including her breasts. About six months after her father died, she felt a lump.

At her gynecologist, they decided to take a watch and wait approach. “I put it out of my mind,” she says. “I was so busy with my life with work and school. I didn’t think that it would be anything serious.” By the time a shooting pain in her breast brought her back to the doctor, it had been another six months. Testing eventually revealed she had triple negative breast cancer, which had spread to her lymph nodes.

Homa did a lot of research on where she could get the best treatment, eventually deciding to participate in a clinical trial at City of Hope, a cancer treatment and research center in Los Angeles. “I felt really comfortable there,” says Sadat, who went through 16 weeks of chemotherapy followed by surgery and radiation.

Homa Sadat in Los Angeles.

“I was pretty strong about it because I witnessed my dad go through it. I was like, “Okay, I can do it, too,” she says. But she also knew that her mother and siblings had just faced the loss of an integral part of their family to the same disease, and that made her want to shield them from her treatment at times. While her family was an incredibly strong support system, Sadat felt inclined to stay away from them at times and relied heavily on friends, living across the street from her mother’s house after recovering from surgery.

“I didn’t want to be in their face going through the same thing again. My mom was just trying to deal with the loss of my dad. It had only been a year since we lost him. I didn’t want to be a reminder,” she says. “But no matter how strong I acted around my family, they knew my pain and what I was going through. I couldn’t hide it from them.”

Part of trying to stay strong meant normalizing her life as much as possible and not looking like a “sick person,”—especially after her little brother broke into tears one day when she took off her wig in front of him. As a part of this, working was incredibly important to her. “Just because I had cancer didn’t mean my life stopped,” says Sadat, who continued to try to work throughout her treatment. “I’d go out, have dinner—keep living my life.” In the end, Sadat, who is now cancer-free, says this approach helped her. “Fighting and acting like I didn’t have cancer really got me through it,” she says.

She also focuses on a new philosophy of spending as much time as you can with loved ones and stressing less. “One thing I didn’t have before that I do now,” she says, “is balance.”



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I Wanted My Friends to Know What a Breast Cancer Lump Felt Like—So I Let Them Touch My Boobs


Three years ago Rebecca Scheinkman, then 32, was having a prebirthday brunch with a group of friends when one of them asked her a bold but important question: “Can I feel your lump?”

Just days before, Rebecca, a licensing manager in New York City, had received a devastating diagnosis: triple positive breast cancer, which she later found out was metastatic. Her friends wanted to know what it felt like, so they’d be better able to detect their own lumps. “I took off my shirt and bra and let them go to second base,” Scheinkman says with a laugh. “That was the moment I became a breast cancer advocate.”

But that wasn’t the first time Rebecca had come up against cancer. At 14, the native New Yorker was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. She needed repeated bouts of chemotherapy and painful spinal taps over the course of two years. Unfortunately, new research shows that adult survivors of childhood cancers are at a greater risk for breast cancer, and Rebecca is living proof. Weeks before that birthday brunch, she found a lump in her breast while putting on her bra. It was hard and immovable. “Instead of taking the ‘Let’s wait and see’ approach, I called my gyno right away,” says Scheinkman.

When she first received her breast cancer diagnosis, Rebecca felt surprisingly optimistic. “I thought, I did this once, I can do it again,” she says. But she also admits to being daunted by the severity of her disease—stage IV means the cancer is a chronic illness she must fight for the rest of her life. It spread to her brain last year, though she’s been able to manage her symptoms by taking up to 22 pills each day. That hasn’t stopped the 36-year-old from thinking about her future and even starting to plan an epic, wedding-style party for her fortieth birthday. “Instead of gifts, I want to donations to breast cancer research,” she says. “It’s going to be a fund-raiser to end all fund-raisers.”

She also volunteers with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and tells every woman to do what her friends did after that brunch. “They were feeling their own breasts right there in front of me,” she says. She loves seeing women take charge of their own health: “If you feel like something is wrong in your body, get it checked out. You are your own best advocate.”



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