Jess Eva offers a hilarious response to Torah Bright’s controversial breastfeeding photo

Jess Eva has rushed to Torah Bright’s defence after Olympian received backlash for posting a photo of herself breastfeeding while performing a headstand.

Sharing Torah’s photo on Instagram Stories on Monday, the 36-year-old radio host commented: ‘Oh for the love of milk and nipples! This is gorgeous!!!’

In a second post, Jess shared the 34-year-old Olympic snowboarder’s photo again and said she would’ve done the same if she could.  

‘You gorgeous mother! If I could’ve gotten my fat a** upside down I would have done the same!’ she captioned the post.  

Torah urged mothers to ’embrace our quirkiness’ after a photo of her breastfeeding her 10-month-old son Flow while in a headstand sparked an online debate.

Bright, Australia’s most successful Winter Olympian having won a gold and silver medal in the snowboard halfpipe, posted the photo last week as she marked Mother’s Day. 

The image of her breastfeeding son Flow was part of a series of photos she uploaded alongside the caption ‘becoming a mother has unleashed something inside of me’. 

‘My prayer for all mothers, now and in the future is that they be heard. Honoured. Respected and encouraged to trust their intuition.’

The breastfeeding photo attracted thousands of comments, including one that read ‘now that’s a balanced meal’. 

Another said: ‘Breastfeed anywhere, anytime’, while a third commentator wrote ‘What an awesome mama bear. Love her’.

But Bright was also criticised for her breastfeeding approach, with one commenting ‘I’m not saying it’s not beautiful. Breastfeeding is between a mum and a child. This is way too much. It’s not about handstands and seeing how that child could actually latch on for likes’. 

Bright said she was disappointed with the critical comments, many of which came from other mothers, adding ‘disclaimer: this is not a sustainable breastfeeding practice’.   

‘Reading some of the comments make me sad,’ Bright wrote in an Instagram story. 

‘In my world mother’s should be each other’s cheerleaders (it’s hard enough). Embrace our quirkiness and finding the joy in every sh***y thing that is motherhood. 

‘We all do it differently, it is not wrong or right. Motherhood is pure. I only now consider myself a wonder woman because I have joined the sacred mothers club with you. Nothing but respect to all mothers.’

Bright said she was ‘not looking for praise’, telling how she walks ‘this earth to the beat of my own drum, led by my intuition and search for love and joy… obviously’. 

She also posted a quote from Mary Poppins that read ‘In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap, the job’s a game’.

‘Growing up with this as one of my favourite mantras… no wonder I play around with the jobs of motherhood, all in the name of fun,’ Bright said.