Penelope Cruz: ‘I was breast-feeding my son 13 months, [nursing] is addictive’
Penelope Cruz covers the January issue of Allure. She’s so beautiful it hurts, although I kind of hate the photo they chose for the cover. It’s TOO cropped, too much FACE. I could stare at her face all day, but jeez, the cover is like “LOOK AT HER NOSTRILS.” Anyway, Penelope talks about breastfeeding and a bunch of other stuff in her interview. Penelope calls breastfeeding “addictive” and says she plans to breastfeed her daughter for 13 months, just like Penelope did with her first kid, some Leonardo. Which… is completely normal, even WHO-recommended. Some highlights from the Allure piece:
Diet & breastfeeding: Penélope Cruz dug into the soup, Peking duck, and crispy fish she ordered during her Allure interview, saying, “As you can see, we’re not going to talk about diet for this story.” Not the deprivation type, anyway. Cruz, mother of six-month-old Luna, says, “I’m supposed to get extra calories because breast-feeding you burn, like, an extra 500 a day. I was breast-feeding my son 13 months, and I plan to do the same with my daughter. [Nursing] is addictive. It’s hard when the day comes when you have to stop.”
Family: Cruz and her husband, actor Javier Bardem, are also parents to Leonardo, almost 3. “I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up,” she says. “Family has always been the most important thing.”
Hair: “My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people’s hair—if they let me,” says Cruz.
On Salma Hayek: “She’s one of my best friends. We call each other huevos [eggs]. It was because when we were working together, we didn’t have children yet, so we used to sleep much more than now. So it was a way to call each other lazy. We slept in the same bed so many times and it was like she was always trying to wake me up and call me huevos.”
I knew Salma and Penelope were friends but I didn’t know that about the “huevos” nickname. That seems… silly and sweet. As for her babies… I had forgotten that she named her daughter Luna. So Penelope and Javier have a Luna and a Leonardo. I like the name Luna – my name means “moon” as well, so I’ve always had an affection for “moon”-type names.
Photos courtesy of Allure, WENN.
