Tilda Swinton arrives at the premiere of We Need To Talk About Kevin, part of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, Palais De Festival, Cannes
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ACTRESS TILDA Swinton has set out to debunk one of Hollywood’s most pervasive myths – that childbirth is a fragrant, glamourous and universally fulfilling experience, in which the participants rarely smudge their lipstick…let alone break a sweat.
The star of We Need to Talk About Kevin tells the Telegraph:
In movies, and particularly in television films, when people have babies they are sitting in a hospital room and there are flowers everywhere. They are made up, magically, and they have a baby in their arms and it’s all really lovely. They start getting pink baby clothes.
In fact, the 50-year-old mother of teenage twins says, childbirth is “a truly murderous business … it’s violent.”
Do you agree with Swinton? Is Hollywood engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the gruesome and terrifying truth about childbirth? Or is describing it as “murderous” and “violent” taking things a tad too far?
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She's totally overstating it (179)
Swinton's right: childbirth's the last taboo (173)
Don't know and intend never to find out (96)
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