All posts containing the tag: "TheBusinessOfBeingBorn"
Posted Jun 17th 2008 1:01PM by TMZ Staff
There's cancer, heart disease, AIDS, and ... did we mention cancer? But the American Medical Association has its scalpels out for that evil medical scourge -- Ricki Lake.
The AMA has issued a resolution slamming Ricki and her pet cause, midwife-aided home-birth baby delivery, as chronicled in her film The Business of Being Born. What's more, they're using Ricki as a tool to get laws passed that would mandate that the "safest setting" for birth is in the hospital ... where OB/GYNs get paid, of course.
Tori Spelling as a suspect mom, we get. But Ricki?
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Nurse!
Tags: AMA, Midwife, Ricki Lake, RickiLake, The Business of Being Born, TheBusinessOfBeingBorn
Posted Apr 23rd 2007 11:20AM by TMZ Staff
Of all the movies premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, only one features Ricki Lake giving birth in a bathtub. If you're into that kinda thing.
"The Business of Being Born" -- a documentary on which Lake served as executive producer -- explores birthing practices in this country. For her own personal enjoyment, Lake filmed the birth of her second child in 2001, and later decided to include the footage in the film. Now you can enjoy it too.
"I am naked at 195 pounds giving birth in my own bathtub," Lake recently told The Huffington Post. "It can't get any more intimate than that!" And it shouldn't.
Filed under: Movies
Tags: ricki lake, RickiLake, The Business of Being Born, TheBusinessOfBeingBorn
