Perez doesn’t seem to have addressed the photo on social media since it began appearing online Thursday, but she may have just unwittingly become a champion for breastfeeding mothers around the world.
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Another said: “Victoria Donda goes to congress and between sessions feeds her daughter, while others ask for maternity leave”.
That adage couldn’t be truer for Victoria Donda Perez, an Argentinian politician who recently sat through a parliamentary session – and breastfed her infant daughter Trilce.
Some have hailed the 37-year-old mother as a feminist icon while others feel the public act was inappropriate.
“When your baby cries, all you want is calm her down”.
Earlier this year, the phenomenon known as “brelfies” took off on social media, encouraging women to take selfies while breastfeeding to break down the stigmas surrounding mothers.
But another user disagreed; “All right, but she should cover her breasts with one of those special bras”.
The MP, who was the youngest member of the Argentine National Congress when she was elected at age 27 in 2011, wrote a stirring memoir detailing her discovering-in her 20s-that she was the daughter of “disappeared” political prisoners.
As well as working as a congresswoman, Donda is a lawyer and human rights activist.
She was born in 1977 in the notorious secret detention center called ESMA to political prisoners Maria Hilda Perez de Donda and Jose Maria Laureano Donda.
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After some hesitation, she consented to a DNA test that confirmed her identity in 2004.
