Denise Van Outen gave up breastfeeding to avoid snappers

London: Denise Van Outen has said that she gave up breastfeeding because she hated photographers taking pictures. In her first interview since her daughter`s arrival in May, the 36-year-old actress said she gave up breastfeeding her daughter Betsy after less than a month.

“I probably should have persevered a bit longer than three weeks,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying. “But I can`t be sitting in Starbucks and breast feeding, because they (photographers) are taking pictures. “Another time, I was at the back of a really long queue at the Post Office to get Betsy a passport, knowing that in the next half-hour she was going to wake up and cry, wanting a feed. “And, sure enough, when I got to the front, that`s exactly what she did. And I felt so conscious of the pressures of everybody looking, tutting and waiting to see how I dealt with the situation because they knew my face,” she added. Van Outen, who is married to Lee Mead, a West End actor, added there were other factors in her decision to stop breastfeeding. “I wasn`t producing enough milk and Lee wanted to be able to feed her,” she told She magazine. ANI