Supermodels Should be Seen and Not Heard! Posted by Kate Flower 6 August, 2010 - 1:20 PM

Supermodels should be seen and not heard!

Supermodel and new mum Gisele Bundchen recently graced women everywhere with her opinion on mothering.  According to Gisele not only did her drug free, eight hour birth not hurt but she also believes breast feeding babies for at least six months should be made law!

Well Gisele from one mother (of three under three who lives in the real world) to another (of one who has heaps of cash to assist with her cushy lifestyle) I say what the hell are you talking about!

FIRSTLY I had a drug free birth of about eight hours and it bloody hurt. Then I came home to two toddlers who wanted my attention, a house that needed cleaning and a family that needed feeding. I have managed to breast feed my third baby for six months and again it has been bloody hard. I couldn’t breast feed my first children for more than four months because I had mastitis five times and breast feeding twins is exhausting!

SOOOOOOOOOOOO, thanks a million for your brilliant feedback on birth and breastfeeding BUT IF WE WANTED YOUR OPINION WE WOULD HAVE ASKED!

Because there is already way too much advice on child rearing, here is something I think all new mothers really need. One recipe for a decadent Chocolate and Berry Cream Cheese Cake, which your partner can bake for you.

Chocolate and Berry Cream Cheese Cake (Serves 12)

Ingredients
200g unsalted butter
2/3 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 ½ cup self raising flour
3 tbsp Dutch cocoa powder
½ cup full fat milk
100g 70% cocoa dark chocolate finely grated
18 blackberries (frozen is fine)
2/3 cup raspberries (frozen is fine)
200g cream cheese
2 eggs
2/3 cup caster sugar
1/3 cup full fat milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line the base of a 25cm round spring form cake tin.

Cream together butter and sugar with electric beaters in a large bowl until pale. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, and then add vanilla. Sift in combined flour and cocoa, add the milk and stir until ingredients are well combined.

Pour into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top evenly with grated chocolate.

Place the blackberries evenly around the edge of the cake then fill the centre with raspberries.

To make the vanilla cream topping, place cream cheese in a bowl and beat until smooth, add the sugar and beat to combine. Beat in remaining ingredients then pour evenly over the cake mixture in the tin. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. Cool completely in pan then serve.

Leave your comment

• kodiko says

  hang on... did I miss the part where you were asked for your opinion?

  Posted Sunday 8 August, 2010 4:14 PM
• Trish says

  HA HA HA go Kidiko!!!! i reckon we lock them in a room till the either become adults or kill each other. how can we teach our children to grow up when half of us adults are even more childish. GROW UP. everyones experience is different, and how did you manage to turn such a miracle, which not everone can experience, into something to argue about!!!!

  Posted Monday 9 August, 2010 9:50 AM
• Kylie says

  hey kodiko
  When someone has a column its generally a given that they would share an opinion. Just like the author has here. I take you must be one of these models that can't feel pain, has an abundance of milk to give and whose body just snapped back in to shape after giving birth. What an amazing human you are. An example to us all.

  Posted Monday 9 August, 2010 9:57 AM