To think Hello and OK give a totally unrealistic idea of having a new baby

[swanandduck]

New mum is usually shown looking absolutely fabulous, wearing flimsy lacy outfit, and posing in professionally designed nursery with not a box of pampers of tub of sudocreme in sight. Rachel Stevens is the latest culprit.

AIBU to suspect that really they have bags under their eyes, are wearing a corset and have hidden the pampers, calpol, and laundry basket full of dirty babygros and vests out of sight until the photographer goes?

YABU to read Hello and OK

I don't honestly. I just browse through them when I'm in the supermarket [blushing emoticon].

anyone who bases their expectations on Hello and OK is a moron anyway.

You should read Take a Break instead

To my shame I saw Natalie Cassidy's programme about her having her baby and she had her photo shoot two days later or something for one of those mags - she could barely walk after having c section and they dolled her up and plopped her in a fake house. What a load of nonsense those mags are! (and the tv programme).

If you were posing for professional photos, would you not expect to tart yourself up a bit?

Yanbu. Those publications give an unrealistic view of everything and are a load of poisonous crap.

YANBU. Some of the babies featured are only about a month old, so all the looking radiant, house like a new pin is a load of bull.

Remove the last 5 words in your heading and you've got it right.

But these are not a magazine about real life.

They are both publications which sell copy because people who buy them to see glamourous photo shoots of money grabbing celebrities who want to gloat about their wonderful life and make a fortune out of it.

I thought everyone knew that. lol!

Would you want to see them in Hello looking skanky though?

The fact is that they don't mislead people, because most of the readers, like you, will work out that they've scrubbed up a bit and cleaned up before the photographer came in.

If Rachel Stevens were to be photographed in a manky blouse covered in baby banana, with an open box of Pampers on the floor and toys everywhere, some people would be on here like a shot gleefully decrying her as a "slattern".

If they're celebrities then they can probably afford some kind of help.They would also probably have nicer houses, better clothes, access to stylists etc.
Although in real life some women manage to keep well on top of things anyway.So I don't think it's all that unrealistic, just a little bit more glossy. Isn't that what these magazines are about?

Well - I agree those magazine sell a totally unrealistic idea of life, in general (I have stopped reading them completely), and that if you stop and think, of course you'd know that, BUT, there is this sneaky insidious feeling that can creep up on you that there is something wrong with you. Added to that is that a lot of the tricks are pretty underhand - airbrushing, using other people's houses etc, that, thankfully most of us know about now. If you're in a vulnerable state, though that stuff can have more power.

There's outright misleading stuff - a myth is created around being a "perfect" parent. For instance, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are never pictured with their nannies so somehow we get this idea they do all their good works, make films, look after 20 kids, with no help

what i want now if someone who is/was a celeb nanny and tell us all how much parenting they actually do

i used to work with mick jaggers' nannys' mother and would love to know what went on behind the scenes

i did ask but they wouldn't spill

they make me laugh as they're so over the top. husband usually has on shirt slightly open, women airbrushed within inch of her life - then newborn usually looking cross eyed and not sure what's going on

southestastra... and they are divorced within a year of this perfect idyll beginning

All it is, is a professional photoshoot, using props, not a candid papparazzi shot. Most of these people get paid a fortune to endorse products, so they HAVE to look good on a posed shoot.

The clothes they are wearing will have been supplied and again they are being paid to wear those clothes and make them look desirable.

Hello and OK give an unrealistic idea of everything - that's what they are for.

YABU but only because they give an unrealistic idea about absolutly everything. Kind of unreasonability on a technicality, if that helps .

Which is why we should get down on our knees and thank god for giving us Kerry Katona.... now there's a skanky mare that we can all aspire to :)

frankly anyone who reads this type of crap needs their head testing and their bank account frozen

Hello and OK present an unrealistic idea of every aspect of life, akin to reading a fairy story. Agree with clevercloggs. Plus freeze their child beneift.