The latest anti-vax, homeopathic celebrity

[ESF]

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YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHICH WASHED-UP 90S STAR IS REFUSING TO VACCINATE HER KIDS NOW!

by Lisa Needham on April 17, 2014 at 10:24 am in Culture, Movies

Jenny McCarthy? Nope! Carmen Electra? Nope! Shannen Doherty? Nope! Tori Spelling? Jessica Simpson? Nope! Sarah Michelle Gellar? Nope! Janet Reno? Nope! Which person is dumbsplaining at you that she feeds her kid soup every day instead of vaccinating him because something something Western medicine and also too anecdotal “evidence” about how vaccines make babies sad sometimes?

Why, it’s Alicia Silverstone, beloved star of Clueless!

And yes, really, miso soup EVERY DAY for the kid.


"Alicia Silverstone has revealed that her two-year-old son Bear has never been vaccinated for the usual run of childhood diseases including chickenpox and measles or had a ‘drop of medicine’ because she prefers a natural approach. [...]

In an interview with People magazine Ms Silverstone, who is married to musician Christopher Jarecki, says that she feeds her son a light miso soup for breakfast and he has ‘never been sick.’"


That kid is going to grow up with the saltiest blandest taste buds ever.

Look, we know there are many people out there who name their children things like “Bear” and subscribe to the salty soup theory of parenting, but most of those people do not get national or international platforms to spew their nonsense. And nonsense it is, as she goes on to explain how to get rid of things like fevers without pesky medicine.



"f Bear has a snuffly nose she uses eucalyptus oil to help him breathe more easily and feeds him cooled Japanese ‘ume kuzu tea’ if his temperature runs high. Another thing she recommends is to soak a child’s socks in vinegar or cold water and wrap them around the feet to ‘bring down the fever.’A ‘cooled cabbage leaf on the back of a baby’s head’ is another suggestion."


Why a cooled cabbage leaf?

Why not a cool bit of lettuce? Or kale? Is Alicia Silverstone being paid by the anti-kale lobby? Also, god help that kid if he gets something like a kidney infection that actually requires Western medicine in the form of antibiotics OR YOU COULD DIE.

Oh god, we forgot to tell you about how she fixes earaches.


"For earache Ms Silverstone says squeezing ‘a few drops of breast milk’ into an infant’s ear will ‘help alleviate discomfort and clear the tubes.’"


Having been quite the connoisseur and practitioner of earaches in our youth, we cannot really figure out how adding more liquid to our ears would have cleared the tubes, but that is probably because we did not have a supporting role in Batman and Robin.

Also, breast milk?? How will she fix the kid’s ears once she stops nursing?

Update: People in the comments tell us the breast milk ear cure might actually be A Thing, but we do not care because we’re never going to stop thinking about the cabbage leaf head part of all this.

Is this some sort of elaborate Joaquin Phoenix performance art type stuff and there will be a big reveal later that it was all a joke? We are probably not that lucky. Sorry, Bear. You will grow into a fevery middle-schooler who has to bring cold cabbage to school when you are feeling unwell and you will have the worst salt cravings anyone has ever had. We feel for you.

[pixy0stix]

She does the prechewing the food for her precious, too. She's cracked.

[UMaineTeach]

I feel like I knew she was whack. I had her in the same group with Blossom.

[ajj]

This does not surprise me.

[ESF]

Apr 18, 2014 16:34:50 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

She does the prechewing the food for her precious, too. She's cracked.

Wait, what?

[AJL]

Yep and she also does this --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvySMbNA2zc

[bimbi284]

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:03 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

I feel like I knew she was whack. I had her in the same group with Blossom.

This

[pixy0stix]

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:50 GMT -5 ESF said:

Apr 18, 2014 16:34:50 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

She does the prechewing the food for her precious, too. She's cracked.

Wait, what?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/alicia-silverstone-premastication-pre-chew-food_n_1389544.html

She pre-chewed his food, then spit it into his mouth.

[unclejesse]

This is not news

[debatethis]

Given her stance on other stuff, this shocks me not at all.

[thejackpot]

As if?

Don't ruin Clueless for me Alicia! What a nutter.

[sharknado]

Vegans, man

[NewOrleans]

So she encourages pickling infants into sauerkraut as disease control?

[ESF]

Apr 18, 2014 16:37:28 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:50 GMT -5 ESF said:

Wait, what?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/alicia-silverstone-premastication-pre-chew-food_n_1389544.html

She pre-chewed his food, then spit it into his mouth.

[IIOY]

Put me in the "not surprised" column, too.

Actually, I am surprised that we are only now being told this directly. I would have thought she would reveal this earlier on.

[Velar Fricative]

Also, her son's full given name is Bear Blu. Yeah.

[msmerymac]

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:03 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

I feel like I knew she was whack. I had her in the same group with Blossom.

They're both vegans. They're probably friends. But not the normal, "I do me, you do you," type, the type who have to write books about how become vegan was the best thing ever and everyone needs to do it, too. And the kind that give all crunchy people a bad name.

[msmerymac]

Apr 18, 2014 16:43:59 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Put me in the "not surprised" column, too.

Actually, I am surprised that we are only now being told this directly. I would have thought she would reveal this earlier on.

Yeah, really, I just assumed. I don't think Mayim Bialik has come out as being anti-vaccine, either, but I'm 99% sure she doesn't vax. 

LA, man. More and more people not vaxxing everyday. Good thing I left.

[origami]

Apr 18, 2014 16:37:28 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:50 GMT -5 ESF said:

Wait, what?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/alicia-silverstone-premastication-pre-chew-food_n_1389544.html

She pre-chewed his food, then spit it into his mouth.

omg I thought you were kidding.

I don't know why I'm surprised by the level of crazy since her kid is named Bear Blu. Of course Bear Blu's mom is on crack.

[elleblue]

Apr 18, 2014 16:34:50 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

She does the prechewing the food for her precious, too. She's cracked.

Right? I was going to say, of all celebs, it doesn't surprise me at all that she's anti-vax.

[Alyssa]

I'm not surprised at all.

[notsocreepylurker]

I was actually shocked when I found out how crunchy Blossom was

[pyramidsloth]

Apr 18, 2014 17:06:30 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Apr 18, 2014 16:43:59 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Put me in the "not surprised" column, too.

Actually, I am surprised that we are only now being told this directly. I would have thought she would reveal this earlier on.

Yeah, really, I just assumed. I don't think Mayim Bialik has come out as being anti-vaccine, either, but I'm 99% sure she doesn't vax. 

LA, man. More and more people not vaxxing everyday. Good thing I left.

She definitely doesn't vax. She wrote about it in her Beyond the Sling book. She's also a member of Holistic Moms, which I'm guessing doesn't require much in the way of an explanation. Sigh. How Blossom has a PhD in Neurology is absolutely beyond me. Clearly, she's not an idiot, but did she sleep through her entire doctorate program?

[IIOY]

Apr 18, 2014 18:03:42 GMT -5 pyramidsloth said:

Apr 18, 2014 17:06:30 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Yeah, really, I just assumed. I don't think Mayim Bialik has come out as being anti-vaccine, either, but I'm 99% sure she doesn't vax. 

LA, man. More and more people not vaxxing everyday. Good thing I left.

She definitely doesn't vax. She wrote about it in her Beyond the Sling book. She's also a member of Holistic Moms, which I'm guessing doesn't require much in the way of an explanation. Sigh. How Blossom has a PhD in Neurology is absolutely beyond me. Clearly, she's not an idiot, but did she sleep through her entire doctorate program?

I was just about to post that she might vax because she has a PhD in some field of science but then I read your post and now I want to curl into a ball.

[pyramidsloth]

Apr 18, 2014 18:11:01 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Apr 18, 2014 18:03:42 GMT -5 pyramidsloth said:

She definitely doesn't vax. She wrote about it in her Beyond the Sling book. She's also a member of Holistic Moms, which I'm guessing doesn't require much in the way of an explanation. Sigh. How Blossom has a PhD in Neurology is absolutely beyond me. Clearly, she's not an idiot, but did she sleep through her entire doctorate program?

I was just about to post that she might vax because she has a PhD in some field of science but then I read your post and now I want to curl into a ball.

Depressing, isn't it? What really bothers me about Mayim Bialik coming out as anti-vax is that the AVers can point to her and say, "see??!! She's educated, and has her doctorate in Neurology but she doesn't vaccinate her kids SO THERE!!"

[meshaliuknits]

Apr 18, 2014 16:37:28 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Apr 18, 2014 16:35:50 GMT -5 ESF said:

Wait, what?

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/alicia-silverstone-premastication-pre-chew-food_n_1389544.html

She pre-chewed his food, then spit it into his mouth.

They are half bird?

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[ttt]

Does Alicia Silverstone really even qualify as a celebrity anymore?

[alzi]

That's not how ears work.

[ringstrue]

You know, I really don't care if you wanna use cabbage leaves for the ears or whatnot and have never had to go to the hospital or resort to prescription steroids or whatever else for your child's illness so that they survive, but don't act like you know all the answers just because you hole up your perfect child in your compound so that you never even have the risk of them catching a bug let alone a secondary infection.

[alzi]

Apr 19, 2014 14:27:10 GMT -5 incogneato said:

Apr 19, 2014 7:57:36 GMT -5 alzi said:

That's not how ears work.

Yeah, seriously. I will squirt breast milk on anything if I think it will help (don't judge- I use modern medicine too but that stuff kicks pinkeye like nothing else!) but my LO has an ear infection now and I was asking if any kind of topical treatment like drops could help instead of systemic abx and my doctor said that the infection is behind the ear drum and therefore drops wouldn't be able to get to the actual infection. 

Exactly. BM in the ear could end up causing an infection in the canal. Milk just hanging out in a warm moist place? Gross