As all of us breastfeeding mamas know, when baby’s feeding time is here, it is here, meaning those boobs are crying out to be emptied, no matter where you are or how inconvenient the situation.
Nature does not wait for anyone – not even when you are decked out in thousands of dollars worth of designer clobber and jewellery and at the Oscar’s.
Which is exactly what happened to Tom Hardy’s wife, Charlotte Riley, last Sunday night, when she found herself skillfully balancing breastfeeding and date night – at the 88th Academy Awards.
Since the birth of their first child together late last year, Hardy and his wife (who looked out of this world in her Gauri & Nainika gown the other night, by the way!) have been notoriously private about their newborn — like, we literally don’t even know the sex of the baby yet — but Sunday night, we were able to get our first glimpse into their early days of parenthood as Hardy gave a classic dad excuse for hanging around outside the ladies room at the Dolby Theatre auditorium. Riley had to take a pumping break.
The handsome star of The Revenant was overheard telling the Los Angeles Times, “I’m just waiting for my wife to finish breast pumping in the bathroom. She has to do it every hour.”
We’ve said it before and we say it again: Mums are super-heroes.
In fairness, though, we are going to assume that the bathrooms at the Oscar’s are fairly nice in terms of strange places you can find yourself feeding (or pumping!) as a breastfeeding mum.
What about YOU, mamas? Where is the fanciest place you’ve ever pumped?!