AIBU to be over such “bravery”, “honesty” and “rawness”

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Pregnancy and birth: Mum Clemmie Telford on candid Instagram images www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46131215

Now before you start: this is why I don’t go on insta anymore. But this crap on the BBC? Feck off.

Am so fed up of this type of fawning pap - a woman got on the loo looking fed up in her birthday suit 40w gone and gets accolades for “speaking out” about the “honesty of that time”.

AIBU to just not care? AIBU to be fed up of having the cult of middle class motherhood rammed in my chops? Having been there twice before I didn't realise any “awareness” needed to be raised?

It’s just another freaking priveliged Professional Mother telling the rest of us what we already know and how AMAAAAZINGGGGG it is and how EMPOWEREDDD AND SPECIAL we all are.

Go away. Folk have been having and raising children for millennia. Stop packaging it to us like we’re missing out on “the expeeeeerienccccceee”

I suppose in the toxic plastic insta bubble she apparently lives in, where everyone is filtered and lit and posed to the nth degree and no image exists that is not strictly curated and maximally flattering, this sort of thing passes for ‘brave’
In the normal world, it just seems desperately attention-seeking and tiresome.

The phrase 'raise awareness of' makes my heart sink these days. I'm never done hearing about people raising awareness of things that everyone in the entire world is already aware of. The existence of pregnancy being a perfect example.

Is that a bathroom or a disused Victorian asylum?

It's a very cheap way for the BBC to get stories though. Plus now other media outlets can report for free on the "outrage" on mumsnet and the BBC can report on that and so many articles can be generated for a fraction of the cost of real investigative reporting. The real controversy though is that in the first image she has no toilet brush, yet in the second she does...

Holy crap! My instagram experience is so different than everyone else's I guess. I see none of this (Thank the heavens omg it would get old) My instagram is cats, Japanese Shrines, and Kimono lol

If it's for the camera / exposure / furthering your own online presence, it is never honest, brave or raw, it is manipulative and will make 1000s of women compare their pregnant bodies to hers.

To that end, she isn't massive. I was ROUND all over. She know's she doesn't look shit and that makes me so cross.

@Halloween i just tried to look up the story about the german kid suing her parents about excessive social media exposure - apparently it was an Austrian girl but the story was later exposed as a fake. Mind you, as more kids grow up and realize what's been done to them without their consent I think we will see more issues with this. Maybe not lawsuits but certainly major family disagreements. Social media is so new, I think a lot of people just don't think it through from the kid's perspective because it didn't exist when they were kids...

On another tangent, Black mirror had a cracking episode called Nosedive about social media. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it already!

@flop you're dead right. Bring back real journalism!

Massively entitled and annoying. Also she describes herself as 'curating' her blog. I bloody hate that takeover of the term curated. You mean you bloody put something together?

I hate this shitshow (pardon the pun) of everyone needing to be 'instafamous'. I did the traditional 'what do you want to be when you grow up' activity with students a while ago and got a whole lot of responses of 'a youtuber!' 'a gamer!' 'an instagramer'. This was from 8 and 9 year olds! The future terrifies me.

"She's raising awareness of herself and how special and brave and inspirational she is."

Do you know, I don't mind the naked photo, we've been seeing those since Demi Moore appeared on the cover on Vanity Fair in 1991. Nothing new (exactly how old is CT?) but nothing is offensive.

But I really object to her 'message' in the second photo of 'look, once the baby is here everything is rosy'. That's just the same old message that as women we are suppose to be utterly fufilled by our happy healthy children. No PND (how about a photo in a mother and baby psychiatric unit for those who have psychotic PND?), or sick children or just that desperate desire to return to work and the world of adults. Just Mummy sitting in her domestic sphere with her baby happy to be looked at. Same old oppression.

Her Instagram: instagram.com/clemmie_telford?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=7z1ghn6dpgb1

But I can't see what she's raising awareness about? That at 40 weeks pregnant you are physically big, a bit tired and possibly a bit nervous about having a baby? It's hardly brand new information that is it?
And do I need to see a naked woman sitting on a bog looking pensive to illustrate it? I'm just not sure what that inspires people to do? I quite like the bathroom tiles though...so I guess in that way it's been quite influential as I might get some like it for my downstairs cloakroom.

Agree, agree, agree

That’s precisely it @TheLastNigel

“Raising awareness” is the new ace card to play when you’re pelted with (justified) accusations about basically showing off.

Pfft.

You gotta have a massive ego to post this and think it is some kind of amazing groundbreaking statement.

She posted one that annoyed me even more the other day of her big boob breastfeeding her kid while she looked directly into the camera - 'candidly' presumably. And then used this attention seeking photo to spawn, y'know, a really big and original debate on the whole subject of when should women stop breastfeeding? The woman is so transparently attention seeking.

Just had to rush in to say awareness awareness 🙏🙏🙏🙏 #awareness

I am so fucking sick of 'awareness'. Different topic but don't even get me started on the 'wellness' (wtf even us that) instagrammers purporting to raise #awareness about chronic illness whilst posting brag pics of their yoga poses and plant based meals...

But , ya know, awareness 🙏

You know she’ll read this then her and her poxy DH will throw hissy fits and leave instagram again, don’t you

That woman thinks she’s a bloody queen of insta

@IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece think you’re getting your Clemmies confused...

YANBU,. But they need to make it look like it's more than it is otherwise it's just another photo of another pregnant lady, it needs to be special. A bit like people posting photos of their backside with a quote from Budda underneath. Instagram is definitely behind a lot of social issues, I'm looking at you anti vaxxers and 'I live off fruit juice' people too, self obsessed narcissistic crap being given a platform to influence morons.

Looks as if the lid’s down on the loo- so maybe a bit less “candid” than we think?

Actually it really fucks me off - the idea that ooh look, you have the baby and then everything is just PEACHY. Look how faaaar you’ve come etc.

Realistically most of us will spend the first two or three years struggling with broken sleep, and being repeatedly smeared in green snot. It doesn’t all suddenly become lovely just because you aren’t pregnant anymore.

I don't think she knows what "candid" means.