Pretty Little Liars’ Shay Mitchell just shared a gorgeous breastfeeding photo
Former Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell and her boyfriend Matte Babel welcomed their first child back in October.
“Breast friends”
The pair’s baby girl Atlas is the apple of her mama’s eye.
“I’m really, really lucky,” she recently told US Weekly. “She’s an easy baby so far, so we’ll see!”
Now a couple of months out from the birth, Shay’s posed for very glam mum and bub photo shoot.
“Breast friends,” Shay captioned the very glamorous image she just shared with her Instagram followers.
Model and mum-to-be Ashley Graham loved the photo, excitedly commenting “Mommy goals!”
“That exactly what I looked liiiike !!! ” Younger star and mum-of-two Hilary Duff posted under the shot.
“I mean come onnnnn,” actor Vanessa Hudgens posted approvingly.
“Friggin epic,” Troian Bellisario, Shay’s former Pretty Little Liars star gushed. (Troian and her husband Suits star Patrick J Adams are parents to one-year-old Aurora.)
“Mommy goals!”
Of course, it wasn’t just famous folk who were kind of in love with this image. Lots of regular non-celebrity types were nuts for it too.
“This is so amazing and empowering,” one follower posted.
“SLAY Mitchell at it again,” another fan wrote.
“The most gorgeous mama,” someone else declared.
Here come the parent police
However, not everyone thought this image was a positive one. What. A. Surprise.
“This does a huge disservice to women who are struggling with breastfeeding and being a new mom. This is NOT what it looks like,” one wrote.
“Ok beautiful!! But also I wanna see one I can relate to … in a pukey house coat and hair in a messy bun,” another follower commented.
“I’m a fan of her, but this picture just says but it’s an attention getter. She’s not even looking at the baby, she’s not connected with the baby she’s connected with camera,” a ‘fan’ posted.
That all seems ridiculous to us. Clearly Shay’s celebrating becoming a mum in her own way, and one photo does not capture all of her reality. There’s plenty of time for her to share more candid photos if she chooses, and if not that’s totally her call.