Author: Julie Mazziotta / Source: PEOPLE.com
Model Mara Martin was “proud” to represent working moms when she walked the runway while breastfeeding her daughter on Sunday night.
The new mom — daughter Aria is 5 months old — said that nursing while modeling showed that mothers don’t need to give up on their careers when they have a baby.
“You can do it all,” Martin, 30, told PEOPLE one day after walking in the Sports Illustrated Swim Search fashion show. “You can go out. You can pursue your dream. You can totally work, you can have a kid. You can be in a bathing suit. You can be confident in your body no matter what it looks like.”
Martin says that Aria ended up on the runway with her very organically. It all began when she brought her daughter to the open casting call, because she and her fiancé just moved to the Miami area and don’t yet have a babysitter.
“Aria was with me because I was just being me, I was just being a mom because I couldn’t just go do this for the weekend and leave her,” Martin says. “And they [SI] were super accommodating.”
The runway show was part of the SI Swimsuit Issue’s yearly search for new…
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