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To think Cheryl Tweedy is talking nonsense

172 replies

Workreturner · 14/11/2018 12:46

In the Sunday Times interview.

Talking about her 19 month old son.
“I would spend every breathing moment with him and not do anything else”

Really?

I mean I adore my two children. And genuinely enjoy spending time with them.

But “every breathing moment”, no. And not do anything else? No

Why do these celebs do this?! Always so OTT about parenting. Is it to make themselves feel better or to make others feel inferior??

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1981m · 14/11/2018 20:38

Ur yes I think I realised she wasn't talking about child birth itself but pregnancy and becoming a mum.

I really don't think that's fair enough, it's a load of rubbish. It's obvious she's had work done. Just admit it.

mumto2babyboys · 14/11/2018 21:21

I think Liam did desert her though. He could of spent time with her and his son and released his music in 2019

instead of going on tour when he doesn't even need the money.

Yeah she is trying to distract people from the fact she's had surgery but she must be really
Insecure to have lost so much weight and then had plastic surgery she didn't need

I do feel sorry for her, no one forced her to get married but she took the risk of changing her name and looking like an idiot, in the hope it would all work out I guess

At least she isn't wearing the clothes she wore when her ribs were visible, she makes some terrible fashion choices

Gingerrogered · 14/11/2018 22:27

If her career is based on her personal life how come she isn't using bear then? She could have made a fortune from him this last year had her own reality tv show and endless magazine covers by putting him in the public eye.

She's milking talking about him for all it's worth! And the pooooor meeeee lonely single mother schtick. I haven't seen a single headline or interview recently about her music. Her entire comeback is based on songs other people have written for her which make allusions to her personal life (just like her last come back) and interviews about Bear and hints about Liam. She does nothing but exploit her personal lives. Besides, putting your kids on magazine covers is considered the preserve of fading desperate stars who need the money, like Price, Katona and Andre. Someone expecting to out out a record wouldn't be allowed to by their management even if they wanted to.

I think she gets treated like crap by men

Liam basically left her and bear over and over while he was promoting his own music and traveling the world but he could have waited to release it and he didn't need the money or the fame and does he even see his kid?

Doesn't seem to be too bothered does he

Blimey, you've fallen for the Tweedy publicity machine hook, line and sinker haven't you?

Yes, Ashley Cole treated her badly, yes. But she didn't behave that well either, notable showing a great deal of contempt for his career which he'd grafted for every day since boyhood to reach the top.

She married Jean-Bernard to promote an album then cast him aside.

She's had at least one gay beard the 'relationship' with whom she used to try and launch her career in the US.

Liam is apparently a complete bastard because he's kept a dignified silence rather than boo hooing to the press and doing interviews about her and Bear every time he has an album to promote? Rightio.

Liam has just left a huge boy band and wants to start a solo career. He has a very limited time to do that and had to strike while the iron was hot or disappear without trace. You would think given that Cheryl would be more understanding of that, given that she justified never seeing her first husband and going on tour every year when the football season finished by saying that her career was oh so important she couldn't possibly put it off or dial it back a bit for her personal life. Especially considering she has always had a bit of a second rate career with no notable success outside the UK, and Liam having a successful and much more lucrative international career. But contempt for her partner's career whilst insisting on the utmost respect for her own.

She is absolutely ruthless, prepared to pick people up and drop them as they serve her purpose. Of course she's not going to admit she wanted a baby and she wasn't really that bothered about Liam when she got it, or that marrying JB helped her shift an album and restart a stalled career. Because that doesn't send mugs scurrying out to buy her records the way her 'Pooooor meeee, teh world is so cruel' shtick does, does it?

PrimalLass · 14/11/2018 23:35

So people are quick to defend someone who was convicted of a violent racist attack

SHE WASN'T. Violence yes, racism no. There was no evidence of racism. How many times does this have to be said?

PrimalLass · 14/11/2018 23:41

I think Liam did desert her though. He could of spent time with her and his son and released his music in 2019

Don't be daft. That would be nearly 4 years after 1D 'took a break'. He had to move faster than that. Liam signed his solo deal around 9 months before the baby was born, not after.

ButchyRestingFace · 14/11/2018 23:47

Liam signed his solo deal around 9 months before the baby was born, not after.

That must have been just around the time he met Cheryl.

PrimalLass · 14/11/2018 23:53

Nope. They got together in 2015 apparently. At the end of 1D.

PrimalLass · 14/11/2018 23:57

Here you go, someone else has done the timeline for us...

www.bustle.com/p/cheryl-liam-paynes-relationship-timeline-from-the-moment-they-met-on-x-factor-to-now-9645950

ButchyRestingFace · 15/11/2018 00:01

Here you go, someone else has done the timeline for us...

God help me, I’m going in. 😬👍

PrimalLass · 15/11/2018 00:03

Good luck.

TheBubGrower · 15/11/2018 00:07

She's certainly an interesting character. Definitely has an image that she's trying to sell, she comes across as being the girl next door but who knows what really goes on in private? I think it's probably all very cleverly engineered. Her and Liam were obviously over ages before they announced it and the weird performance she put on with him at the Brits was so cringey. I guess they knew they were over then but decided to keep up the charade because the timing wasn't right yet for them to tell the press that they were separating. He looked massively awkward about it all.

I don't doubt she's very much loved up with her son but as others point out, it's easy to find the energy to be enamoured with your child if you've got house keepers etc. Although she insists she doesn't have nannies, and perhaps that's true. It seems very odd to me that no pictures of her walking a pram, baby's face obscured like with other celebs, has ever come out. It sounds like she's a total recluse with him. I heard her say recently "I've taken him to feed the ducks at a pond. Just kept it low key". Made it sound like that was a one off. Tragic if that is the reality and he is being kept indoors/ is just driven from private home to private home to keep him away from the press.

Also the weight loss thing i find very disturbing. She's clearly got an unhealthy body image. I think it's possible her face has changed because she has like 5% body fat

ThunderInMyHeart · 15/11/2018 00:46

Interesting recluse point. I found it weird as fuck her mum came to live in the marital home with her and Ashley Cole

Alwaysbekind2014 · 15/11/2018 01:13

I have spent pretty much 24/7 with my daughter until this week when she started school.
We have slept in the same room / bed depending on where we are at home or in hospital.
The only time I ever left her was when I’m hospital I would run home and get clothes etc
Apart from that nope and wouldn’t of had it any other way.
Still wish I could spend that time with her dreading her doing to school full time ha

mumto2babyboys · 15/11/2018 05:55

I don't think she has used bear. The rest... Um who knows but there is so much she could have done this last year with bear to earn money

She could have done the baby clothing line collaboration
She could have done the mummy reality show
She could have done all the magazine and tv appearances with bear
She could have used him to sell pushchairs or write a baby book or something but there has been nothing except the odd mention of him when she was already being interviewed.

No one knows why her and Liam broke up but with him being gone all the time the long distance, non stop traveling he did, would have made it pretty impossible

Liam could have waited I think and at least given bear a chance of having his dad around since he was already famous and wealthy.

I still feel sorry for her. Her face is a mess and she can't sing and she gets laughed at about her surname but then what else is she meant to do except music/tv

Cherrysherbet · 15/11/2018 06:17

don't think it's nonsense. Each to their own. I loved time with my DC at that age and still do.

This.

KenBarlowsGlasses · 15/11/2018 06:32

What a stupid non thread about a load of bollocks.

AngeloMysterioso · 15/11/2018 07:54

So a woman in her 30s with two ex-husbands and an assault charge to her name gets pregnant by a chap more than 10 years her junior, who she’s only been with a few months, and who happens to be a multi, multi-millionaire, and somehow he’s the dick for wanting to persevere with his successful career?

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MorningsEleven · 15/11/2018 08:16

I opened this thread assuming you would be talking about the bullshit she is spouting about her face changing due to childbirth. How?!

Me too.

My face has changed since I had kids - frown lines, wrinkles and eyeballs that have gone into spasm from too much rolling.

SixtyCandles · 15/11/2018 08:43

Why have you taken it so literally?

borderline11 · 15/11/2018 08:52

petbear Bore off, i’ve no time for people who defend racists, to call someone toxic for mentioning it says a lot about you.

Namestheyareachangin · 15/11/2018 08:52

@Thesnobbymiddleclassone

There's nothing remotely unhealthy about mothers and their infants being attached to each other and intensely bonded. It is the biological norm. It is how the species has survived. It is no longer necessary in the modern age, with modern families, and it is not for everyone. But there is nothing remotely unhealthy about a female mammal wanting to be close to their defenseless young at all times. It is a natural and rational instinct.

Capitalist faux-feminism that shits all over motherhood supposedly in the name of liberty pisses me right off. Can't count the number of people who put me under pressure to 'get my life back' weeks after my child was born, when actually the life I was living was the life I wanted and had chosen - what they meant was get back to the life they wanted me to be living because it made me, for their purposes, more fun/interesting/sexually attractive/economically productive. It had nothing whatsoever to do with what I wanted or was good for me.

borderline11 · 15/11/2018 09:02

LittleLionMansMummy
“I'll defend any woman/ mum - on here and in real life, celebrity or not - who is being targeted about her parenting/ work choices. It just so happens this is a high profile case.”

Why is it so hard to understand, people aren’t attacking anyone’s parenting/work choices. Nobody could give two fucking hoots what she does. Get off your high horse and read what the threads about.

Mylittlepony374 · 15/11/2018 09:07

@Namestheyareachanging. Your second paragraph is EXACTLY how I've felt after having both my kids but I've never been able to articulate it as clearly. Thank you.

borderline11 · 15/11/2018 09:13

There's nothing remotely unhealthy about mothers and their infants being attached to each other and intensely bonded. It is the biological norm.

Totally agree, but that’s not the case here. How can anyone fail to see PR bullshit.

Now i’m going again before all the ridiculous posters who deliberately fail to understand the thread come back on.