Aussie actress Naomi Watts has sparked a debate about the rigours of caesarean birth after she was photographed standing naked on a Californian balcony.
The photos, which appeared on the popular gossip website Perez Hilton, showed Watts baring not only her breasts but also a still swollen lower abdomen with a vivid caesarean scar, as she stood on a balcony with her dressing gown hanging open, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Watts, 40, gave birth to her second son, Samuel Kai, just eight weeks ago, and she was seen shooting her latest film Mother and Child in Marina del Rey.
To date, the actress has not revealed why she preferred the birthing method, keeping her and partner Liev Schreiber's decision to themselves and not wading into the heated debate over “to push or not to push”.
Australian actress Naomi Watts has revealed the trick to losing weight - breast feeding.
The advice is not much help to women who aren't pregnant or men who need to lose the unwanted roll or two around their bellies, but new mum Watts says it works for her.
Watts gave birth to her second son, Samuel Kai, just a month ago.
On Monday in New York for the premiere of boyfriend Liev Schreiber's new film, Defiance, the actress showed off a svelte figure.
"I'm breast feeding and he's sucking it all out of me, it seems," Watts, 40, told People magazine on the red carpet when asked how she got back in shape so quickly.
"And when the baby comes out, it's a lot of weight right there."
Watts and Schreiber welcomed their first son, Alexander Pete, into the world in July 2007.
Naomi Watts has given birth to her second son with husband Liev Schreiber.
Watts, 40 and Schreiber, 41 welcomed their son in New York on Saturday, 13th December.
They have yet to reveal the name of their baby
The couple’s eldest son, Alexander, was born in Los Angeles last year.
The couple married in 2007 before Alexander was born, after years of dating
Actress Naomi Watts is all set to shed her clothes to pose for artist David Bromley's submission for the Archibald Prize next year.
Popular for his waist-deep portraits of women starkers, Bromley, has claimed that talks are on with Watts’ camp to rope in the actress for the sexy portrait.
In an interview with SiT, the painter said that he has no plans to alter his signature style when he paints the Mulholland Drive star.
"My people are talking to her people. I think she will fit the pop quality of what I do really well, [also] she has these amazing eyes and a really strong gaze, which is why she is wonderful as an actress," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted him as saying.
Bromley has not set any sitting date, but is ready to wait while Watts is through with her pressing concerns, which includes the arrival of her second child with partner Live Schreiber.
Bromley has earlier painted Kylie Minogue, and an exhibition held last year contained a collection of well-known faces, including those of Megan Gale, Cheyenne Tozzi, Kirsty Hinze, Collette Dinnigan and Kate Ceberano.
Naomi Watts has prompted speculation she and boyfriend Liev Schreiber have married in secret in Australia, by showing off a ring on her wedding finger.
The pair have been in Watts' homeland while her beau shoots new movie Wolverine there.
But Australian newspapers are speculating they took time out to tie the knot during Watts' trip down under to visit Schreiber - after a snapper caught the actress "wearing a large diamond ring and another band with smaller diamonds on her ring finger" as she arrived back in Los Angeles on Monday 17 March 2008
The couple were forced to issue a statement denying they had married in June 2007 after Schreiber joked to reporters, "We are married. You got it first.
Break the story!" This time around, Watts' representative is refusing to confirm or deny the reports, "I don't comment on her personal life".
Naomi Watts lost her baby weight by breastfeeding.
The actress, who gave birth to her first son Alexander last July, quickly regained her pre-pregnancy figure by nursing her newborn son and getting a personal trainer.
Naomi said: "Three weeks before we started filming 'The International' I decided that I better get into changing my body back again. And they gave me a trainer and it was very effective and also breastfeeding. That's how you drop weight. Even though you're just eating all the time he is eating too."
The 39-year-old star, who is engaged to actor Liev Schreiber, also revealed becoming a mother was "harder" than she ever imagined.
Naomi added to US TV show 'Entertainment Tonight': "My son is a true joy, every day it is total euphoria. But motherhood is harder than I thought. The biggest surprise was the lack of sleep. Alexander is still struggling to sleep through the night."
'The International', which also stars Clive Owen, is due for worldwide release in September.
Aussie actress Naomi Watts has sparked a debate about the rigours of caesarean birth after she was photographed standing naked on a Californian balcony.