I’m breastfeeding my 1.5-year-old so naturally we’re probably both addicted to it and she’s going to be emotionally ruined. That’s according to Karen Millen’s logic, anyway.

In a bizarre segment on Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5 this week, in which for whatever reason they thought it was OK to pass judgement on a mum’s choice to breastfeed her three-year-old, the fashion designer suggested the parent had breastfed for “far too long”.

“There’s no benefit, is there, for a child to be breastfed beyond six months really,” said Millen.

And she didn’t stop there. “I think it’s quite a selfish thing on the mother’s part,” she continued.

When Vanessa Feltz pressed her on why she thought that, Millen replied: “Well I just think, you know, that’s not good emotionally for that child.

“I mean, what does that child do later in life and the attachment and, like you said, it becomes an addiction – and an addiction for that child too because they only know the boob ... and it’s just not normal is it?”

I’m no expert in breastfeeding but I have breastfed two kids and can safely say what a load of codswallop (and that’s putting it politely).

As the NHS says, breastfeeding has long-term benefits for babies, lasting right into adulthood: “Any amount of breast milk has a positive effect. The longer you breastfeed, the........

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