March 26, 2012: Mel B and her husband are spotted walking around their neighborhood in Vaucluse with their baby daughter, Madison. The couple looked very strained and distant; they were also heard arguing and speaking very harshly towards one another. Pictured here: Stephen Belafonte, Madison Brown Belafonte. Mandatory Credit: Andy Athineos/INFphoto.com Ref.: infausy-10
EXCLUSIVE TO INF. ALL-ROUNDER. March 26, 2012: Mel B and her husband are spotted walking around their neighborhood in Vaucluse with their baby daughter, Madison. The couple looked very strained and distant; they were also heard arguing and speaking very harshly towards one another. Pictured here: Stephen Belafonte, Madison Brown Belafonte. Mandatory Credit: Andy Athineos/INFphoto.com Ref.: infausy-10
March 26, 2012: Mel B and her husband are spotted walking around their neighborhood in Vaucluse with their baby daughter, Madison. The couple looked very strained and distant; they were also heard arguing and speaking very harshly towards one another. Pictured here: Mel B, Melanie Brown. Mandatory Credit: Andy Athineos/INFphoto.com Ref.: infausy-10
March 26, 2012: Mel B and her husband are spotted walking around their neighborhood in Vaucluse with their baby daughter, Madison. The couple looked very strained and distant; they were also heard arguing and speaking very harshly towards one another. Pictured here: Mel B, Melanie Brown, Stephen Belafonte, Madison Brown Belafonte. Mandatory Credit: Andy Athineos/INFphoto.com Ref.: infausy-10
Fresh on the heels of the controversy surrounding Beyoncé traveling in a car without putting Blue Ivy in a car seat, another black celebrity baby was snapped in a state of relative peril. Paparazzi photographed Scary Spice, a.k.a. Melanie Brown, and her husband Stephen Belafonte strolling down the street near a park in Australia — where Stephen stopped to do push-ups with their infant child strapped to his chest.
Does this fall into the same category as Michael Jackson dangling baby Blanket over the edge of a balcony? No. Six-month-old Madison looks no worse for the treatment in subsequent pictures.
But the proximity of that little girl’s head to those rocks has some members of theGrio staff wondering: What was Belafonte thinking?
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