Gisele Bundchen, the Brazillian model, has backed down on her statements that she made saying mothers should have to breastfeed their kids for six months by law.

In her blog, the 30-year-old who became a mother in December, said she “wasn't here to judge” other mothers.

She said feeding her song Benjamin helped her lose her weight gained in pregnancy.

Health Department figures have only about 20% of mothers still breastfeeding when their babies are six months old.

With newborns, 80% of moms breastfeed.

Bundchen made her comments after supporting long-term breastfeeding in an interview with Harper's Bazaar magazine.

"I think there should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months," she said.

"Some people here [in the US] think they don't have to breastfeed, and I think 'Are you going to give chemical food to your child when they are so little?' "

In a follow up blog post, she said, “My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

"Becoming a new mom has brought a lot of questions, I feel like I am in a constant search for answers on what might be the best for my child."

Gisele is the world's highest paid supermodel, and is married to American football star Tom Brady, had a natural birth at her home in Boston after meditating through her eight-hour labor.

Television star Denies van Outen said she gave up breastfeeding with her new daughter Betsy after less than a month because she did not want the press taking photos.

"I probably should have persevered a bit longer than three weeks," she said recently. "But I can't be sitting in Starbucks and breastfeeding, because they [photographers] are taking pictures.”