AIBU for wanting to tell celebrity 'baby experts' to shut up

[Poppiesarered]

Let me start with - I need to vent!

Last night, I was reading somewhere about another 'celebrity' (Binky Felsted) claiming his easy it is to have a baby, how scaremongering other mums were about the whole experience and how her 6 months old is doing so great and he was so easy peasy.

I'm a mum to a 3month old dd and my experience couldn't be more different. I feel like people don't talk with how HARD motherhood is. I have one if those 'demanding' babies, that need to be entertained all the time, that get hysterical in a car seat, in a pram and all sorts. I know I'm not the only one, I speak to other mums, they all say how it's a shock, how they don't shower and how they struggle to get a minute for themselves.

It pisses me off, that Binky Felsted who has loads of help, from family who live round the corner, from friends and from paid nannies, plus obviously an army of people looking after her so she always looks amazing from stylist, makeup artists, trainers to chefs. And she's claiming it's so easy being a mum.

Honestly I find it so frustrating that someone who lives of advertising products and services to a target audience of young wine and mums can be so clueless!

I'm not even jealous, after looking after my dd I'm so tired I can't feel anything apart from extreme exhaustion. I'm just shocked at what she said!

I decided to I follow her on any social media which to be fair, she's like a walking advertisement for brands. None of her posts are any anything else but just paid ads.

DD1 didnt sleep anywhere but on either me or DH for the first 5 months. Binky can piss off.

I think it’s nice. I had an easy baby and an easy toddler but I could never have said to any of my Mum friends how easy I found it as I would’ve been seen as some sort of patronising bitch! It’s the reason I’m only having one though, karma dictates that my second child would be a demon

I don't think motherhood is easy or hard it has it ups and downs like everything else. DD is 4.5 and I miss her as a baby so much :(

I know you're venting but Yabu. People have different lives. Tbh all I ever hear is just how tough motherhood is through all stages; the sleepless baby days, unreasonable toddlers, teens etc.. It all sounds relentless, so much so that I don't really fancy it for myself.
That said, celeb mums and anything on Insta is not a reflection of real life for most people.

backafter her name is Alexandra, Binky is a nickname.

She doesn't hugely bother me, although understandably she's very privileged and probably pretty naive with it, as privileged people often are.

Giovanna Fletcher comes across as pretty not-sanctimonious tbh, but then I haven't really watched her youtube videos recently. I wouldn't say she's famous cause of Tom though, they met at school before either of them were famous and then she wrote while he was in McFly, and she acted previously, and wrote for magazines.

It would be nice if not everyone and their mum wrote parenting books, but you don't have to buy them or listen to them.

I agree weevil

Yanbu...if I had the help to enable me to work out at the gym, get all dressed up for nights out, still had a social life outside of motherhood I think I'd say I was finding it too. Back here in the real world though, I have been out twice in the last 10 months and look a hot mess as I have little time or energy to get dressed up...and as for the gym 😂