Mother Pukka #8 Everything is a lie, isn’t it?

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MrsA1234 said:
She’s more concerned about keeping up with the Instagram algorithm than being present with her baby. The less she posts, the less Instagram shows her content on people’s feeds. Sad that’s more important to her than actually spending these infant days cuddled up at home, going on coffee dates, baby groups etc. She should be normalising ‘normal’ maternity leave and showing the reality of it. She’d do more for society by showing the mundane, difficult days of maternity leave than posting all these events. Maternity leave can be so hard for so many reasons and we need society to understand it’s not just ‘12 months off work’. She’s undermining the very thing she claimed she was trying to raise awareness of.
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I don’t agree with the “enjoy every moment” misty eyed rhetoric I currently get from boomers who forget how bloody hard the newborn days can be around all the cuddles. It’s exhausting and you’re often in discomfort from birth etc etc.

However I do agree that you don’t get this time back and it’s such a unique experience (I think we’re going to stick with 1 kid due do difficulties with prev miscarriage conceiving again and then labour and delivery…. Don’t think I can cope twice!) I do want to make the most of my maternity leave to experience everything and actually prioritise spending time with my baby and husband in a little bubble and now bounce back out into the world. Also, whilst raising a baby isn’t a holiday it is nice not having to go to work every day.

when we say mums shouldn’t feel pressure to bounce back I think that it should be emotionally/socially as much as just their bodies!!

Sorry for me-rail I just think that MPs performative feminism doesn’t actually represent new mums of the work force
 
Wolf359 said:
Who’s gonna take one for the team and go to the Superdrug thing then?!
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Why the duck is Jane Bretton (presumably the new Grandma Pukka) posting “Yes please” on GLFS’s Superdrug post? Is it to up the engagement so GLFS is not draining Chin’s hinge premium fund empty?

Also why is Fukka hosting the event when it actually has a diverse panel of speakers for once? Seems a bit tone deaf. And an event with hair braiding, really? Is it for kids, it’s not clear!
 
Oh my gosh that event sounds like hell on Earth.

Rinse and repeat, I wonder if Anna will have a little fake cry as she clutches the baby to her while speaking about how HARD it all is. I was at a few of these bullshit event when her second was a baby, she did that then too.

It’s either clutching a baby or big, serious glasses with Anna

Funniest was at one where one of her super duper, insta besties was literally rolling her eyes when Anna was speaking and pretending to hold back tears while desperately trying to sound sincere. She looked so over Anna’s tit when she thought no one was looking, but was right back to the loud fawning when it was her turn to perform (I only went for the goody bags, which were always tit to be honest).

Such bleeping nonsense, the lot of it.
 
Also, I’ve never heard of the other people on the “panel” 🤢 and can’t be arsed to look them up, but they all look so much younger and cooler than Anna and her boudoir shoots, she seems so out of place. Her head stuck in the middle makes it look like she’s the deputy head and they are the cool prefects.

And only a handful of comments on the posts, mostly emojis.

Oh good god, never mind me, just to say I’ve clocked it’s mothers meetings. Of course Jenny would wheel Anna out and dust her off, she’s stuck in 2016 too. I bet she’s gutted the Clemmies aren’t still around to sit and talk bullshit.

bleeping hell this photo, to refer to my previous post BIG GLASSES AND AN URCHIN! That’s when you know Anna is in full on serious mode 🤣🤣
 

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hattie20 said:
Also, I’ve never heard of the other people on the “panel” 🤢 and can’t be arsed to look them up, but they all look so much younger and cooler than Anna and her boudoir shoots, she seems so out of place. Her head stuck in the middle makes it look like she’s the deputy head and they are the cool prefects.

And only a handful of comments on the posts, mostly emojis.

Oh good god, never mind me, just to say I’ve clocked it’s mothers meetings. Of course Jenny would wheel Anna out and dust her off, she’s stuck in 2016 too. I bet she’s gutted the Clemmies aren’t still around to sit and talk bullshit.

bleeping hell this photo, to refer to my previous post BIG GLASSES AND AN URCHIN! That’s when you know Anna is in full on serious mode 🤣🤣
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When I saw it was a mother’s meeting post I instantly switched off. I know Jenny quite well, she is fake as duck, and I’ve attended these events before. I’m sure they started out with good intentions but they’ve turned into middle class tick boxes, the fakest women I’ve ever met.
 
influencerbore said:
When I saw it was a mother’s meeting post I instantly switched off. I know Jenny quite well, she is fake as duck, and I’ve attended these events before. I’m sure they started out with good intentions but they’ve turned into middle class tick boxes, the fakest women I’ve ever met.
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We’ve probably crossed paths few times. I could never stick her either. Couldn’t be arsed with you if you couldn’t do anything for her.
 
hattie20 said:
We’ve probably crossed paths few times. I could never stick her either. Couldn’t be arsed with you if you couldn’t do anything for her.
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Exactly this! I remember talking to her once and she was constantly looking above my head for someone with more influence to talk to.
She’s pissed off quiet a few people in the local area where her and her now ex-husband moved to with her jumped up attitude, but that’s for another thread entirely 😂
 
influencerbore said:
Exactly this! I remember talking to her once and she was constantly looking above my head for someone with more influence to talk to.
She’s pissed off quiet a few people in the local area where her and her now ex-husband moved to with her jumped up attitude, but that’s for another thread entirely 😂
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Omg. She asked me how many followers I had once, looked me up and down when it clearly wasn’t enough to bother with and swiftly moved on 🤣
 
These women are arseholes and use their kids for income but think how desperately unhappy they must be to not just be content with their health, their family and enough going on to keep a normal person interested. Always wanting external validation. The navel gazing and one-upmanship is disgusting.
 
petitspois said:
These women are arseholes and use their kids for income but think how desperately unhappy they must be to not just be content with their health, their family and enough going on to keep a normal person interested. Always wanting external validation. The navel gazing and one-upmanship is disgusting.
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I knew them all back in the day, and they were all deeply insecure people, looking for external validation. All so fake, all using each other. It was gross.

There’s a certain sort of person who seeks any sort of fame and it’s always to fill a hole somewhere (sorry Anna, to nick your hole), to make them feel as if they are better than anyone else.

I did it as I was bullied at school. Instagram and all that came with it for me, was a, “ha, girls who were mean at school! Look at me now, with one of the big instamums smiling at an event!” I knew the girls who were arseholes to me at school would have seen it all. Each time I was tagged, each time I was on the TV or radio. I used to get a kick out of it when I saw another one of them following me.

There is always a reason that you try to propel yourself like that. Always something you are trying to prove, or something you are running from.
 
She’s wanging on about maternity leave yet drags a teeny tiny baby everywhere unnecessarily

Does she think she’s showing an empowered woman trying to change things for other women because it’s just coming off as a self obsessed twit who can’t practice what she preaches and who lives and breathes for social media 🤔
 
hattie20 said:
I knew them all back in the day, and they were all deeply insecure people, looking for external validation. All so fake, all using each other. It was gross.

There’s a certain sort of person who seeks any sort of fame and it’s always to fill a hole somewhere (sorry Anna, to nick your hole), to make them feel as if they are better than anyone else.

I did it as I was bullied at school. Instagram and all that came with it for me, was a, “ha, girls who were mean at school! Look at me now, with one of the big instamums smiling at an event!” I knew the girls who were arseholes to me at school would have seen it all. Each time I was tagged, each time I was on the TV or radio. I used to get a kick out of it when I saw another one of them following me.

There is always a reason that you try to propel yourself like that. Always something you are trying to prove, or something you are running from.
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I don't want to get too specific, but I work in an area that's to do with mental health and wellbeing <gestures vaguely>. I've come across a few influencers and ex influencers in my line of work and what you describe is exactly right. None of them are okay, put it that way.

Edited to add that it's completely possible to feel compassion and empathy for someone trying to fill the hole (!) by shilling theirs and their kids' privacy for online clout - if they're willing to hold themselves accountable and really work on changing the behaviour.

Without accountability, they will just continue to use and exploit people close to them, and their own children - and I have no sympathy for that.
 
Wolf359 said:
I don't want to get too specific, but I work in an area that's to do with mental health and wellbeing <gestures vaguely>. I've come across a few influencers and ex influencers in my line of work and what you describe is exactly right. None of them are okay, put it that way.

Edited to add that it's completely possible to feel compassion and empathy for someone trying to fill the hole (!) by shilling theirs and their kids' privacy for online clout - if they're willing to hold themselves accountable and really work on changing the behaviour.

Without accountability, they will just continue to use and exploit people close to them, and their own children - and I have no sympathy for that.
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Yes. When they drag their children into their own need for validation, that’s not okay.

I never, ever posted my children. Even when I was put under pressure to do so. Plus, even if I’d wanted to, and had been stupid enough to share my children with tens of thousands of strangers, my husband (who I also never shared), would have gone ballistic.
 
hattie20 said:
Yes. When they drag their children into their own need for validation, that’s not okay.

I never, ever posted my children. Even when I was put under pressure to do so. Plus, even if I’d wanted to, and had been stupid enough to share my children with tens of thousands of strangers, my husband (who I also never shared), would have gone ballistic.
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Agreed. I've never, ever shared my kids on social media. I remember having a stand up row with my Mum when she asked if she could share pics of them on Facebook. No, forever no. They're too young to consent until they are old enough to, if that makes sense.
 
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