Coco Austin is standing by her decision to breastfeed her and Ice T’s daughter until she turned 6.
On the latest episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, the model, 46, defended her choice to breastfeed her daughter Chanel, 9, until she was 6 years old.
Austin shared that she and her daughter used it more as a “bonding experience” in her later years.
“It wasn’t like I was feeding her because she needed a meal. She was able to eat by a year, you know, full, like, solids,” she told the podcaster, 45.
“It was more of a bonding experience and more of like, ‘Okay, I’ll give you the milk.’ But, it was more like she wanted to be around me. So I was like, I’m gonna let her stop when she wants to stop.”
Austin, who shares her daughter with husband Ice T, said that she wanted to allow her daughter to decide when she wanted to stop.
“She’s not gonna be 16 on my boob,” Austin said. “She’s gonna eventually figure out, ‘Okay, this is kinda strange or weird and stuff.’ And that happened around 6, … which was still [an] extremely long amount of time apparently. But in Europe, they’re doing till 7. Like, it’s nothing to them. I mean, Americans think that’s weird.”
Austin went on to say that her daughter mostly used the experience as a comfort thing for her.
“It was mostly when she went to sleep, she wanted me to be there. So it was more of like a comfort thing with her, but I got so many people that loved it. Like, they were on my side,” she said. “I had everybody come out of the woodwork when it comes to breastfeeding ladies.”
She added, “I was like, ‘Oh, this is so nice’ because I was the only one speaking about it. And I’m like, why is this so hard? Like, people have been doing this for thousands of years.”
Austin revealed that her daughter is “obsessed with boobs” to this day, adding that it’s “not a big thing.”
“She loves boobs,” she said. “I think she’s like she’s always very comforted.”
She continued, “She’s like sitting always sitting there laying on me and then it’s just a really nice moment because it’s not gonna be like this when they get into the teenage years.”
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