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?

CrackFox that's Primani dahlink not Primark{wink]

dxx

stop it with all the asterisking

If you want to see what a disservice this type of crap article REALLY does for us 40-something women please check out my current AIBU thread.

Agree with everyone about what utter tosh articles like these are, who cares about these people?
Christa D'Souza is just dreadful isn't she? Sometimes I read her stuff and cannot believe that they're serious pieces and that someone has thought fit to let her write and then they go and publish it as well??? Unbefuckinglievable.

The last time I read something as badly written was when I read Jackie magazine.

Ugh the article is vom-tastic.

However although the journo sounds pathetic, Whiley in her protestations is actually correct. You're always going to be uncool to your kids and that's how it should be - if you try to be acceptable to them style-wise, that's even more uncool. So you should just wear what you like.

If DS is embarrassed by me I intend to say "suck it up kiddo" in the uncoolest manner possible. I think kids actually want to be the coolest and know that their parents don't have a clue. Meanwhile us adults can get on with our lives obsessing over outwells and cobbs and conservatories and hanging baskets and curvy jeans and bbqs, and everyone's happy.

christa d S had a nast pvc coat she used to wear

lol @ moondog "she should be shot".

Bleurgh. Makes me want to go and hire a maternity nurse. Do you think there are some who might work for cupcakes rather than money?

And if she thinks that her kids won't find her embarrassing, then I must congratulater her on having amazingly tactful children. ALL children find their parents embarrassing. What she is doing sounds the Mum variant of the father who thinks he can still dance in a "cool" way at parties.

And I don't care what she calls Glastonbury, but am EXTREMELY at her going when I'll bet she won't even appreciate Bruce Springsteen.

You have a moral duty to embarrass your offspring. If you do not do this at some time in your DC's childhood you are not carrying out your parental duties properly.

Children need to be able to sneer a little bit. It's part of the process of becoming independent. DS#1 tells me his mates think I am OK - I told him to wash his mouth out with soap and I bought myself some elastic waisted trousers at once!

Christa D'Souza wrote a truly hilarious article in Vogue recently where she tried eating like a normal person for a week. In the interests of journalism she had a (gasp!) hot chocolate!! And a croissant!!

But after a week she decided that she missed the extreme hunger pains too much so returned to not eating carbs, meat, sugar or dairy. Or food.

I think she must be too hungry to think in a logical manner.

upper arm waxing kits more like
now that's a friday afternoon treat

The last time I read something as badly written, it was... another Christa D'Souza article.
A vapid and foolish individual.

God if anyone came near me with a camera when I was giving birth I would lamp them. What a wanky article. It's like being cool and wearing the right clothes and taking your kids to 'Glasto' makes you a better mother . Plus not all of us get to have jobs where we can take our children.

Oh, and is having a maternity nurse the norm now? Enough for it to be unusual not have one?

Tripe.

What a tired article [yawn]

@ Independiente, I have to totally agree with you on that - her articles are the worst!

All that under-utilised stomach acid must have dissolved her brain.

@AlistairSim - I will file that remark away for future use.

I remember in the Sunday Times there used to be this "secret diary" column about a very skinny self-obsessed North London step-mother who was having an affair.
I always suspected that it might have been written by Ms. d'souza herself.

recently I did read two articles by Liz Jones. That woman needs a therapist NOW