To want to vomit after reading the article "Hot Mama" in the style magazine - the new breed of trendy mums:sexy, hip and not the least bit embarassing.....

[snapple]

What a smug article, about Jo Whiley and mention of others who all seem to be skinny, have surplus cash, clothes and "young" hair. Ofcourse I realise the writer is just pushing products, but she does manage a quip early on at Fergie and her kids as being repellent?

Whiley has a good cool job - good for her but
apparently Whiley has never had a maternity nurse - good for her - so what, most of the women in the world have not had a maternity nurse, does that mean that someone who does have one is doing something wrong?

Utter hogwash or AIBU?

LOL ggirl! Not an embarrassing mum my arse!

whom? is she another cringey self referential journalist

she's an extraordinary creature to look at, absolutely skeletal and with mad, staring eyes. ignore everything she says.

Yuck

d'Souza is vile. Ugugugugugugugugug.....

I'm all for co-sleeping if thats your thing but sharing your bed with 4 children, the oldest of which is 17 ?

JW annoys me -she comes across as so smug IMO.

never "read" Vogue in my puff,didn't know it did articles thought it was all tanorexic models and over priced bang on trend clobber

used to like glamour though,esp travel/holiday recommendations

what a load of skullsmuggery

why is it so cool to care so much about (a) being cool and (b) looking cool in front of da kidz?

eugh achingly-cool-trying-too-hard-to-be-down-wiv-da-kids kidults

i dont want to be a best friend coolster,you get that from your peers.

i aim to be affirmative,supportive mum

If JW is going to allow for her kids to be promoted as part of the celebrity brand, I suppose she would not blink about shouting to the world about her sleeping habits and that of her 17 year old teenager.

Although like Norbert I felt the promotion of the happy co-sleeping family did not sit comfortably with me, I wonder how it sat with D'Souza's concern about her quest of "maintaining one?s dignity in front of the children".

IMO if I was 17 I would not appreciate my mum publishing my sleeping habits in a national paper.... I might even find it cringe and find it awkward to deal with. Perhaps as a family they can stumble on the Oxfam stand at Glasto they might then find all the celebrity endorsement and talk of sleeping conditions (even if the article mentioned that they all had their own rooms) pretty uncool once they consider the considerable overcrowding in other less well off areas of the world.

D'Souza might be employed by an advertising company or trying hard for some Glasto backstage passes? Perhaps she has an easting disorder, if so I really hope she seeks help, and looks a bit deeper into the the link between advertising promoting unhappiness in women and eating disorders, which she is clearly promoting.

Apologies for my poor grammar in the above post.

.. oh and Scottishmummy I agree with Dittany, Marie Claire did used to publish some thought provoking articles a long time ago, and as to Vogue, you are spot on about the tanorexics, although the editor of vogue is currently pulling a stunt to hype publicity making out that she is taking a stand against size zero models... oh yeah.....

cringe

Christa d'Souza is indeed an unspeakably awful woman.
Full of shit, empty headed and vain.
Does women a real disservice.
She should be shot.

I don't believe for a minute that they all share the same bed all at the same time. Maybe all the DCs have, at some point, over the past 17yrs been in mum and dads bed. I'm just not buying this Brady Bunch guff.

i imagine with Jo's big ole ego there isnt much room in the bed anyhoo

I gave up on 'sundress picked up for a tenner' and couldn't read the rest of it - yeah right.

sundress picked up for a tenner = Primark.