Mike Huckabee slams Natalie Portman over out-of-wedlock pregnancy

Left: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee speaks during a discussion of his book 'A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!).' February 24, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Right: Actress Natalie Portman arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Left: Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images; Right: Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images)

Possible Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee slammed Academy Award winner Natalie Portman earlier this week for glamorizing single motherhood, according to US Weekly.

Huckabee, a FOX News Channel host and former Arkansas governor, attacked the best actress winner, 29, who's currently expecting her first child with fiance Benjamin Millepied, on Michael Medved's radio show on Monday, the magazine reported.

"People see a Natalie Portman who boasts, 'We're not married but we're having these children and they're doing just fine," Huckabee said on the show, according to US Weekly. "I think it gives a distorted image. It's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of-wedlock children."

He described Portman's pregnancy as "troubling," US Weekly reported. He added that many single parents don't have the resources to hire help, the way someone like Portman would, the magazine reported.

"Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care," he said during the show, according to US Weekly. "And that's the story that we're not seeing."

In her acceptance speech Sunday night, the "Black Swan" actress thanked Millepied, saying he gave her "the most important role" in her life, the magazine reported.

Medved quipped back, according to US Weekly, that Millepied "didn't give her the most wonderful gift, which would be a wedding ring!"

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