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Mara Martin is competing to be a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, and has caught everyone's attention when she badfed her daughter on the podium. Keri Lumm reports.
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Mara Martin participated in the Sports Illustrated Swim Search Parade in 2018 on Sunday night – while badfeeding her five-month-old daughter.

The new mother stood on the catwalk in a golden bikini with a shoulder while she was badfeeding baby, who was wearing a noise-canceling headphones, a green bikini and a diaper.

"I can not believe I'm getting up with me and my daughter to do something I do every day," Martin wrote later on Instagram.

Public Applauds Mother-Daughter Duo

Martin says she was chosen as one of 16 finalists for the fashion show at W South Beach.

"I am so so grateful for any Sports Illustrated team to have chosen me!" Instagram before the show.

Martin included the hashtag #modelmom

After the show, Martin wrote: "It's really humiliating and unreal, it's the least I can say, I'm very grateful to be able to share this message and, I hope, normalize badfeeding.Also show others that women can do it all! "

A majority of social media users expressed their appreciation for Martin's family-filled leg.

"You're so amazing, thank you for doing that, all the moms who are badfeeding everywhere!", Comments a speaker.

"I'm so excited that @si_swimsuit defines beauty at so many different levels – great work! Motherhood is beautiful," wrote another person.

The Sports Illustrated Swim Search also featured featured Paralympian Brenna Huckaby, who walked on the track with a prosthetic leg

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