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Salma Hayek, Wet Nurse

And her daughter sees dead people

-Julie Ryan Evans

It seems like Salma Hayek is taking motherhood and her mammary glands to the extreme these days. First there's the footage of her in Africa spontaneously breastfeeding an orphan. While there on a humanitarian mission (being filmed by ABC) she felt a connection to a sick little boy and commenced to breastfeed him.

Don't you wonder if Angelina is wishing she had thought of doing it first?

I'd love to be all kumbaya and lactation love about it, but honestly it's just a little much for me ... even as a new mom who's currently battling to breastfeed my 3-week-old daughter because I know how good it is for her. Feeding the poor and needy is noble and all, but aren't there some safety concerns there, and ... ummm, couldn't she have sent some formula instead?

She said she doesn't think it's unfair to her own daughter, who she was still breastfeeding at the time.

"I actually think that my baby would be very proud to be able to share her milk, and when she grows up, I'm going to make sure she continues to be caring, generous person," Hayek said in an interview with ABC's Nightline.

Then she goes around crushing the hopes of pregnant and lactating women everywhere saying that breastfeeding does NOT help women lose weight. Bite your tongue, Salma! Sometimes thought of the 500 extra calories I'm supposed to be burning each day is all that's getting me through the cracked nipple, time consuming, pumping nightmare that is breastfeeding.

Yet she still claims to be ADDICTED to it.

"I'm like an alcoholic. It is like, I don't care if I cry, I don't care if I am fat, I am just going to do it for one more week, one more month, and then when I see how much good it is doing her and I can't stop," she was quoted as saying in a foxnews.com article .

Clearly, she can't stop.

And apparently all that breastfeeding is paying off for her daughter, Valentina, who possesses some special gifts at the age of 16 months.

"Last night she saw a ghost. I'm convinced," says Hayek in an interview. "Last night she woke up and her eyes were open. And she's looking at one specific point and she's going, 'No no no no, au revoir,' which means goodbye in French ... And she's looking at someone, but there's no one there.

I was so scared, and I'm like, 'Yes, au revoir, whoever you are, get out!' And then she started saying it in English: 'Bye bye, bye bye!' I guess she was trying in different languages to see what nationality this ghost was to go away. It was terrifying!"

Spooky ... but maybe little Valentina was just trying to tell her enthusiastic madre to back off and give her some space.

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