While promoting her new movie “The Fountain” recently, Oscar-winning actress and new mother Rachel Weisz was quoted as saying she thinks it’s “fine” for pregnant women to knock back a few glasses of wine after the first trimester.
Despite vocal criticism from the National Organization of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome — among many, many other entities with substantially more medical knowledge than Ms. Weisz herself possesses — the actress maintains that a little tippling later in pregnancy is OK because she’d done so herself and everything turned out all right, and besides, “they do it in Europe.”
Weisz presumably went on to espouse the many benefits of drinking while pregnant, indicating that a good buzz “keeps you from worrying about how fat you’re getting” and “helps make the baby sluggish and drowsy when it’s born, so it sleeps more and doesn’t cry as much.” We’re assuming she then denied that her statements about the “prenatal breakfast of champions” were at all connected to endorsement checks recently deposited in her bank account and signed by the mysterious “E&J Gallo.”
Of course, the British-born actress also thinks you don’t know where Europe is, so perhaps her medical advice should be taken with a grain of salt…and preferably not one located on the rim of a margarita glass.
