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Mayim Bialik is able to break the stigma around nipples for ladies and men.
“It’s a funny word, and it’s also a really serious word, and it’s a totally legitimate a part of our anatomy, each female and male,” Bialik exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the discharge of her Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory documentary. “But I do think that especially locally that [director Justin Johnson is] showing, which is a really conservative, Midwestern, and traditional family.”
Bialik served as an executive producer on Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory which follows Johnson’s conservative parents, John and Randi after they secretly began a prosthetic nipple company. The pair got the thought to become involved within the nipple industry after Randi was diagnosed with breast cancer and ultimately decided to maintain it secret, including from their kids, at first.
While John and Randi’s business was initially kept on the down low, they ultimately decided to go public which Bialik found admirable.
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“I don’t think, and I believe that the documentary discusses this, I don’t think that there’s any notion that nipples mustn’t be talked about, and particularly Randi, who’s a nurse, she talks about it’s a part of the anatomy. Men have them too,” she told Us. “We’d like to have comfort talking about it. And the actual fact is, people ought to be uncomfortable with the indisputable fact that we’re not comfortable talking about it. And in order that is one in all the things that this film is admittedly addressing.”
While breast cancer is principally seen as a women’s health issue, men may be diagnosed with breast cancer as well. John and Randi currently make prosthetics for each ladies and men.
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With the documentary dropping, Bialik is hopeful that the conversation towards breast cancer and early detection screenings grow to be less taboo subjects for all gender identities. Bialik admitted that the title of the doc “shocked” her at first. Despite being “startled,” she ultimately got here around after being “open minded enough to learn more.”
“The themes of this documentary are loads about what pulls us apart as a family and what keeps us together,” she told Us. “I believe especially within the times we’re all living in now, we will use any examples of unity. So that basically was touching to me.”
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Bialik added she was capable of relate to the documentary’s message much more since she is a giant advocate for ladies’s health along with being a licensed lactation educator counselor.
“I’ve never seen breast cancer handled quite this fashion, and it’s just such a gorgeous collection of footage,” she gushed. “The documentarian was filming his family since he was quite young, and his dad was all the time filming them. So there’s a lot footage of learning about this couple, and particularly, the mom, Randi, so it was only a breast cancer story unlike any I’ve ever heard.”
Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory is now available to observe by Video on Demand.
With reporting by Sarah Jones
