Bell from Ben Dover vid
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:39 pm
I have log reckoned Bell from King Ben's movie was about the best Ben has done - was doing a search and came across this rather sweet story. All the best to her.
Ten years ago, shapely blonde beauty Belinda Hall's special assets earned her the South African Penthouse Pet of the Year title.
She got fame, adoration - six million men voted her into the number one slot - and the chance to travel and live overseas.
She was also hailed as Miss October in the United States' Pet of the Year honours.
Now, although that has all been replaced with marriage and motherhood (her husband is Pinetown lawyer Andre Liebenberg), she is still something of a star.
'I knew my boobs would come in useful one day'
For not only does the new mom provide her four-month-old Down's Syndrome son, Anthony, with a litre of breast milk a day, she also supplies another two litres a day to a unique milk bank.
While she has to feed Anthony her breast milk in a bottle - like other Down's Syndrome babies he cannot "latch on" - the extra milk she expresses is pasteurised by the milk bank and fed to two little Aids orphans at the iThemba Lethu Transition Home in Manor Gardens, Durban.
"I knew my boobs would come in useful one day," quipped the supermom, who said she felt that all breastfeeding moms should consider donating milk if they can.
While the breast milk bank is grateful for every drop it gets, organisers say that none of the 50 or so mothers who have donated since the bank was set up three years ago have been as productive as Liebenberg.
"This is our star," said Penny Reimers, who runs the bank, the first in the world to supply Aids orphans.
Staff at the home said one particularly thin orphan had started to thrive as soon as he was given her milk, testament to the quality of her donations.
Ten years ago, shapely blonde beauty Belinda Hall's special assets earned her the South African Penthouse Pet of the Year title.
She got fame, adoration - six million men voted her into the number one slot - and the chance to travel and live overseas.
She was also hailed as Miss October in the United States' Pet of the Year honours.
Now, although that has all been replaced with marriage and motherhood (her husband is Pinetown lawyer Andre Liebenberg), she is still something of a star.
'I knew my boobs would come in useful one day'
For not only does the new mom provide her four-month-old Down's Syndrome son, Anthony, with a litre of breast milk a day, she also supplies another two litres a day to a unique milk bank.
While she has to feed Anthony her breast milk in a bottle - like other Down's Syndrome babies he cannot "latch on" - the extra milk she expresses is pasteurised by the milk bank and fed to two little Aids orphans at the iThemba Lethu Transition Home in Manor Gardens, Durban.
"I knew my boobs would come in useful one day," quipped the supermom, who said she felt that all breastfeeding moms should consider donating milk if they can.
While the breast milk bank is grateful for every drop it gets, organisers say that none of the 50 or so mothers who have donated since the bank was set up three years ago have been as productive as Liebenberg.
"This is our star," said Penny Reimers, who runs the bank, the first in the world to supply Aids orphans.
Staff at the home said one particularly thin orphan had started to thrive as soon as he was given her milk, testament to the quality of her donations.