Salma Hayek denies Jon Peters affair

Actress Salma Hayek, in a statement, is denouncing reports that she had an affair with Batman producer Jon Peters, who has recently been shopping around a book proposal about his career and personal life. "After several weeks of continued press coverage of Jon Peters’ upcoming book, I want to make something very clear," Hayek says. "I have never dated nor had a romantic relationship with Mr. Peters. My name has been continually linked to his romantic liaisons, and I want to put a stop to this lie."
Much of the coverage of Peters' proposal listed Hayek's name along with Barbra Streisand, Kim Basinger, Pamela Anderson, Nicolette Sheridan, Sharon Stone, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Peters' past loves. Peters produced Hayek's 1999 action comedy Wild Wild West.

Salma Hayek breast feeds African infant

A friend who knows that another woman once breast fed my son just sent me this story about actress and UNICEF spokesperson Salma Hayek cross nursing a baby in Sierra Leone.

Hayek was in the West African country in September as part of her involvement in the fight against tetanus, one reason Sierra Leone has the highest infant and child death rate in the world.

But I'm guessing her humanitarian efforts won't draw as much attention as the "Nightline " television footage that showed Hayek breast feeding.

Bloggers, as expected, are going crazy.

“There is a close enough view that I could count swallows!” exclaimed Tanya on Motherwear’s Breast Feeding Blog, who was “blown away” that the scene was shown on network television.

Others were a tad cynical.

"Now here’s a good way to call attention to your giant bosom while simultaneously saving impoverished children,” wrote Buzzfeed.com senior editor Peggy Wang. “Angelina who?”

Whatever her motive, Hayek used her breasts as nature intended: She fed a hungry baby. For that she should be commended. If she also raises awareness that breast feeding helps build immunity, more power to her.

“In fact doctors there say that because malnutrition is so rampant they would like to see women in Sierra Leone breast-feed for two years,” wrote Kimberly Caplan on ABCnews.com.

“But such behavior is rare. The reason? Men urge their wives to quickly stop breast-feeding because of cultural mores that forbid sexual intercourse with breast-feeding women."