to get annoyed by celebs who always say their new babies are 'really good'

[Nanga]

spent two (blissful)hours in the hairdressers yesterday and read OK/Hello interviews with jamie oliver and kate garraway who both answered the (annoying in itself) question 'is he/she a good baby?' with gushing responses about how their new borns are so calm and quiet and not being any trouble at all. in fact, i can't recall any celeb who admitted that their baby is a frickin nightmare who cries all the time, never sleeps, has oral thrush, colic, reflux, or any of the other hideous experiences we normal people go through. Is this what they teach them at celeb school? OK, I admit no one's going to admit to having anything less than a perfect life, but a smidgen of honesty wouldn't go amiss would it? Makes me feel so inadequate ... I don't care I don't have the perfect bod, or face, or husband, or home, but purleease, someone own up to how hard motherhood is!!

Billie Piper was pretty open about how hard she found it wasnt she (but I hate her because she got to snog Dr Who).

The other side of this is the z list slebs who always have the miscarraige 'scare', the 'we almost died' labour and the 'PND misery' all of which is covered in minute detail in crappy mags. On examination they have had nothing of the sort but are just keeping their mugs in print.

The traumatic 'misscarraige' seems to be fairly popular amoung the KPs of the world.

BTW not for one second minimising how horrible mc are, just not quite sure I believe everything I read

It does make me laugh when these celebs hide the fact that they have an army of servants to look after them.
It doesn't take much imagination to see how much easier it would be to have for eg.
A maternity nurse for the first few weeks who does 90% of the baby day care and 100% of the night care.

A nanny who looks after the other DC's.

Housekeeper or cleaner.

Driver and odd job man.
Who wouldn't in their shoes.? I'm not envious [well not much]
It is a dream family set up and who would refuse it if they had the means?

What is so irritating is their refusal to acknowledge the help they receive, and present themselves as some sort of superhumans. You can see it every week in these daft magazines.
It does make me wonder why they don't have 10 kids - all the wonderful joy without the hard work.

I may be a bit weird malung but I don't think that is a 'dream' family set up. I like doing stuff for myself and my husband and daughter. I certainly wouldn't want some scary maternity nurse looking after my newborn either. Those are the things that matter in life, caring for the ones you love IMO

Agree Sarf, not my dream set up either. I don't exactly enjoy some of the more mundane tasks like washing sicky babygros but I'd rather do that than have my home teeming with strangers.

Goodgod KingRolo no-one enjoys all of the yukky stuff, but it's the bad/boring/mundane stuff that makes the good bits feel even better isn't it.

I dislike the 'is your baby good' question for all the reasons already given. Babies aren't making moral choices, for heaven's sake.

Don't mind what guff celebs come up with as long as they realise they are lucky to be able to afford lots of help.