14 DAY TRIAL // It's time to get a little grossed out, so we'd like to apologize to every reader out there who's already had their breakfast, lunch or dinner. Remember Fergie, the female voice from the musical group The Black Eyed Peas? She was the one who made Von Dutch trucker hats, and striped mini-skirts popular some years ago.
Fergie pretty much dropped out of music ever since she and actor Josh Duhamel welcomed to the world their son Axl. Since then, Fergie has been all about mothering and on Thursday night she came around to the Chelsea Lately talk show to talk to Chelsea Handler. And boy, did she have something to say!
We find out that Fergie's son, Axl, who is at the moment just 11 months old, likes to regularly French kiss his mother and she not only condones it, but she actually loves it. To make things clear: a French kiss is a kiss on the mouth, complete with tongue. Yes, let that seep in for a while.
Here's what Fergie actually said on live television, “I kissed Axl and Josh at home—both French. My son likes to French kiss me a lot. It's so delicious! He goes in for the kill, but I'll have to cut that off at a certain age, or else that'll be weird.”
What's weird is that Chelsea didn't seem to be entirely grossed out by this confession, or if she was, she hid it very well, because she went on without batting an eyelid and complimented Fergie on her good mothering skills.
While babies and mothers do share an increased level on intimacy in the first years of their life, surely there must be a rule against frenching your own born on a regular basis.
The first thing that goes through our mind is that baby Axl has to subsequently swallow large quantities of lipstick after kissing his mother, since she's always wearing heavy makeup when out in public. We're no specialists, but some of the things they put in those lipsticks can't be good for a baby's health.
Then there's the moral issue of kissing your child on the mouth, tongue and all. Call us prude, call us old-fashioned, but there is something inherently wrong with that, especially when the baby starts growing up and beginning to make heads and Tails of his surroundings.
Even Fergie admitted that it “will be a little weird, a little bit Oedipus,” a reference to the old Greek myth of the guy who married his mother and killed his father.