V&A bans breast-feeding mum (but what about all the statues?)
THERE’S no shortage of naked bodies on display at the V&A Museum. But some staff draw the line at the real thing – even when it involves breast-feeding.
Kat Joyce was so bemused at being asked to cover up by workers that she tweeted a picture of herself with her baby Claude alongside a sculpture of a breastfeeding woman, saying: ‘For the first time ever I was just asked to cover up by a member of V&A Museum staff who spied a nanosecond of nipple. Am perplexed...’ Ms Joyce, 37, a director of a theatre group, pointed out that there were dozens more naked statues of the female form at the London museum.
She said: ‘If people really want an eyeful of boob there are plenty to choose from.’
V&A director Tristram Hunt apologised last night, saying: ‘Our policy is clear: women may breast-feed wherever they like.’