- Ten years ago, shapely blonde beauty Belinda Hall's special
assets earned her the South African Penthouse Pet of the Year title.
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- She got fame, adoration - six million men voted her into
the number one slot - and the chance to travel and live overseas.
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- She was also hailed as Miss October in the United States'
Pet of the Year honours.
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- Now, although that has all been replaced with marriage
and motherhood (her husband is Pinetown lawyer Andre Liebenberg), she is
still something of a star.
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- 'I knew my boobs would come in useful one day' For not
only does the new mom provide her four-month-old Down's Syndrome son, Anthony,
with a litre of breast milk a day, she also supplies another two litres
a day to a unique milk bank.
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- While she has to feed Anthony her breast milk in a bottle
- like other Down's Syndrome babies he cannot "latch on" - the
extra milk she expresses is pasteurised by the milk bank and fed to two
little Aids orphans at the iThemba Lethu Transition Home in Manor Gardens,
Durban.
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- "I knew my boobs would come in useful one day,"
quipped the supermom, who said she felt that all breastfeeding moms should
consider donating milk if they can.
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- While the breast milk bank is grateful for every drop
it gets, organisers say that none of the 50 or so mothers who have donated
since the bank was set up three years ago have been as productive as Liebenberg.
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- "This is our star," said Penny Reimers, who
runs the bank, the first in the world to supply Aids orphans.
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- Staff at the home said one particularly thin orphan had
started to thrive as soon as he was given her milk, testament to the quality
of her donations.
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