Well everyone is ENTITLED to their opinion about it. That’s why this is a forum where people can respond and people have. I think it’s a lazy response to just brush it off and then say everyone is offended by something at some point, which is true. I mean, I GUESS certain racial groups SHOULDN’T be offended about the use of racial slurs but I’m not one of those people who will NEVER tolerate lazy/”say whatever you want” speech around ME. So, no, I don’t agree with her comments, was offended my them (as a mother). CBB posted this item and the quote and then posted it for discussion: for people to agree or not agree, to be offended or not be offended.

WOW, its funny how people take everything a person says to heart!! She is talking in general, I feel the same, and I’m infertile… motherhood can really change a woman. I feel there are many ways to full fill that. I am a woman , and i was born without ovaries. I plan to adopt, I would love to have a child between 2-4 years old:)one day. I have nieces , nephews, godchildren. I actually got to keep my god-daughter her 1st year (her mom was unsure about keeping her) I knew she would come around, so i kept her. I’m telling you everything about me changed, for the better.. just knowing I had to take care of her. So I can truly appreciate Naomi’s opinion. Just remember its just that, an opinion!

I’m sorry ladies, but i agree with Naomi. I have no children, nor have I tried to have them. However, if i were to never parent children by an old age, I would ceratainly feel like I’d missed out on the essence of womanhood. That is not an insult to anyone, it’s just a feeling. There would always be that yearning.

ITA with M, Meg, and Sarita… I don’t think Naomi was excluding adoption as a means to becoming a mom. She never said that she thought a woman had to give birth to a child to be a mom.

And even if she had, it is still her opinion. As someone who struggles with infertility it definately makes me feel like less of a woman sometimes. That is one of the reasons infertility is so painful! I know a lot of other infertile women who feel the same way.

I think Naomi is finally showing some maturity in wanting to work her life out before bringing a child into it and I hope that things work out for her if she is able to stay clean and stable.

I have experienced infertility and I don’t find her statement/opinion offensive. I felt that I was not quite a full woman because I couldn’t have a baby….but that is something that I overcame when I decided that being a mother isn’t just about giving birth to your child. A mother is more than just biology. Who knows what she meant and I mean, who really cares?

Well it’s her opinion and she’s free to have it. I don’t happen to agree. Nobody’s entitled to go through life without being offended.

Oh Campbell I am so sorry to hear about your daughter’s miscarriage. I know you were over the moon excited about your first grandbaby. Your family will be in my prayers.

I love fashion, and have watched Naomi Campbell for a long time…followed her through Kevyn Aucoin through the supermodel years….lots of ups and downs and harassment, battery and assault charges. I find it hard to believe that any of the brilliant mothers, non-mothers, fertile or infertile women with an education of at least high school could be so affected by what this abusive crackhead has to say!! Would you all be offended if Britney Spears said the same thing?? Honestly, I’m about to be married, and I have a condition that might make childbearing diffficult at best. I might be offended if my mother said something to that extent, but Naomi Campbell?? She showed up to do her community service in Gucci. What a travesty. It’s your own responsibility to yourself to define what makes YOU a woman; it’s not anything you can find in a book, on the internet or anyone else’s opinion.

Wouldn’t it be just desserts for her to go through fertility problems after making this comment? She seems like she needs to be knocked down a few pegs, this is a woman that has made her living off of her looks. She has no discernable talents yet she seems to think she’s queen of the world.

I hope that these comments were taken out of context. This type of thinking just goes along with the cultural bias against single and/or childless women, and the mountains of insensitive questions they deal with from (mostly) women who are convinced that the only way to live and die is if you’ve had a child and can compare pram prices. My sister, who CHOOSES to remain single and childless, has to deal with rude questions at work like “you don’t have children?!”, “don’t you want children?”, “you like being alone?”…and on and on. It’s awful for her and other women who are either childless BY CHOICE or who are having fertility issues. It’s a shame that, for the most part, we women put other women through this with this asinine, thoughtless and insensitive comments.