Alicia Silverstone on mouth feeding uproar

Actress and vegan-cookbook author Alicia Silverstone says she's surprised at the attention attracted by a video she put up last month showing her pre-chewing food for her 11-month-old son and feeding him mouth-to-mouth.

"I didn't think I was inventing anything. I really wasn't trying to tell anybody what to do," she told reporters over the weekend at a screening of her 1995 comedy hit "Clueless" and her upcoming film "Vamps" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, reported People magazine.

"People have been feeding their kids that way for thousands for years," Silverstone, 35, added. "It's a weaning process."

She said she never intended the March 23 video -- which remains on her website, TheKindLife.com, an ancillary to her 2009 book "The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet" -- to "cause such a ruckus."

Her son Bear Blu -- born May 5 last year to her and husband Christopher Jarecki, whom she married in 2005 after eight years together -- "knows how to use his hands and he also eats regular food," Silverstone said. "When babies are weaning, he still breast-feeds. Some people think that's disgusting, too, which is insane."

The pre-chewing also appears to help mother-son bonding, she said. "He attacks my mouth and I think it's adorable," she said. "It makes me laugh every time he does it."