Four years ago, I was on the cover of Time magazine. My life hasn't been the same since.
I had been interviewed for a story about Dr. Sears and attachment parenting, and so I was as surprised as anyone to see an image of me, standing there with my hand on my hip my, my then 3-year-old son on a stool and nursing at my breast.
The headline asked, "Are You Mom Enough?"
Yeah, remember that woman? She was me.
This image—was it my age (I was 26), my hair (I'm a blonde), the age of my son (well beyond the point when most American women stop nursing their kids), my skinny jeans (which one prominent feminist journalist, Slate's Hanna Rosin, kind of fixated on)—sparked a kind of outrage and judgment I still haven't managed to wrap my mind around.
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