Ashley Graham Defends Choice to Stop Breast-Feeding ‘Strong’ Twins: It Was ‘A Lot of Work’

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Her kids, her choice. Ashley Graham explained her decision to stop breast-feeding her 13-month-old twins — and she has no regrets.“Overnight, my whole life changed,” the supermodel, 35, said during the Tuesday, February 7, episode of The Daily Show. “It felt like I was feeding a nation.”The American Beauty Star host and husband Justin Ervin welcomed twins Malachi and Roman in January 2022, two years after the arrival of son Isaac, now 2.

Graham told guest host Chelsea Handler that she exclusively breast-fed her eldest child, but she reconsidered the process after giving birth for the second time.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“There’s also this whole thing with people telling you how to feed your child,” the Nebraska native said. “So, with my first kid I was like, ‘I can only breastfeed!

This is the right way!’ And then I had the twins, and I was like, ‘I’m not doing this. This is not working here. Both of you want both of these?

This is a lot of work.'”Graham decided to stop breast-feeding Malachi and Roman last year after they turned 5 months old and switched to “the best formula” she could find. “These little guys are so strong and so happy, so I don’t think we should be telling people how they should be feeding their kids,” she concluded.Last year, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model revealed that she almost died from blood loss while giving birth to the twins at home. “The night I gave birth to the twins, I hemorrhaged,” she wrote in a May 2022 essay for Glamour. “We didn’t even have enough time to blow up the home birthing tub because everything happened so fast.”After her sons arrived, Graham told her midwife that she didn’t “feel good” and needed to lie down. “I remember seeing darkness