Ashley Graham defends decision to stop breastfeeding twins at 5 months old

Ashley Graham stands by her decision to stop breastfeeding her twins.

On Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Show, the model spoke with guest host Chelsea Handler about no longer breastfeeding her 13-month-old twin boys, Malachi and Roman.

“There’s this whole thing with people telling you how to feed your child. With my first kid, I was like, ‘I could only breastfeed. This is the right way,’ ” Graham, 35, said. “Then I had the twins, and I was like, ‘I’m not doing this.’ “

“This is not working here. Both of you want both of [my breasts]. This is a lot of work,” the mom of three, who has previously shared photos on Instagram of her breastfeeding her children, continued.

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She then revealed that she stopped breastfeeding her twins when they were five months old and opted for formula, joking: “It felt like I was feeding a nation.”

“These little guys are so strong and so happy, so I don’t think we should be telling people how they should be feeding their kids,” she added.

In September 2022, Graham — who also shares 3-year-old son Isaac with husband Justin Ervin — opened up to PEOPLE about how the feeding “journey with the twins has been an interesting one.”

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