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Julia Hollander AGAIN

26 replies

BooBooGlass · 07/10/2010 09:49

And yes, I know it's the Mail
It seems a very different account of events than last time it has to be said, but my god it makes me cross that she peddles out this story at every opportunity

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SolidGoldBrass · 07/10/2010 21:02

I was just reading this and it does seem to be a rather different story - no mention of her actually abandoning her DD in the hospital (admittedly this was done on the advice of professionals as the only way to ensure the child would be taken into foster care.)
WHile I do have sympathy for her(there is no way I would have been able to care for a child with SN that severe) it is odd that her story changes so much.

RandomMusings · 07/10/2010 21:04

grrrrrr

yes to the story changing

she enrages me

2shoes · 07/10/2010 21:12

god she is a money grabbing woamn.
wonder how much she got paid for dragging her child through this again.

Greythorne · 07/10/2010 21:13

The story seems the same to me. How has it changed?

lucky1979 · 07/10/2010 21:15

Has she definitely done a new interview or have they just cobbbled it together from previous quotes?

Northernlurker · 07/10/2010 21:16

It seems fairly similar to me.

sarah293 · 07/10/2010 21:17

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Pixel · 08/10/2010 00:25

Must admit when I read it I immediately thought there was a different tone to it, sort of an edited version. Possibly it's all the stuff about feeling 'incomplete' when the child had gone, when before the impression was more that they couldn't wait to dump all her belongings and get back to their 'perfect' lives. Hmm

BellGirl · 08/10/2010 00:43

Oh here she goes again Hmm

Exploiting 'her' daughter for another article where she doesn't actually merit the moniker of 'mother'

She isn't Immie's mother. She is Immie's bio bio parent.

Immmie's mother is someone who doesn't sell her story to the papers ever now and again. Immie's mother looks after her and does everything for her

Grr indeed Riven

BellGirl · 08/10/2010 00:52

Stop using your daughter to make money when you feel like it

She appears to be your daughter when you need to sell a story, but never other wise.

Shame on you.

bethjeff · 08/10/2010 01:00

Surely she has no right to do this seeing as she has given up on her daughter.

Sick sad woman. I hope she gets her comeuppance and that her daughter is leading a happier life without her.

BellGirl · 08/10/2010 01:05

Oh she is leading a very happy life, Beth

Which is why this kind of article makes me so agry.

telluthetruth · 23/01/2011 15:18

I am glad for Imogen that she is being cared by a foster mother who really does care and can meet her needs in the way she and all other human beings no matter how needy deserve.

JH and her family would not have been able to do it. SO in that sense it was absolutely the right decision to give Imogen up.

It's just so hard to understand why JH persists in taking part in interviews unless she is hoping to publicize the lack of support for birth mothers and their families? Perhaps this is the reason?

Maybe JH is donating any money she earns from articles etc to charity or putting it towards Imogen's future care?

We don't know the details.

I do think the story she tells is an attempt to be honest but that it is misguided. She is deals with the most sensitive of issues in what appears a cavalier manner. It comes across as cold and uncaring. She of all people will probably know that she has crossed a line but may believe that she had to break this taboo subject wide open to create a debate and in this she has succeeded.

The fact is that our society doesn't value it's most needy members or their heroic carers and this is what should be brought out of the debate so that everyone struggling to care for their dds and dss get enough respite and support.

I know JH's story makes a lot of you angry and for good reason and I support you all in being angry. I hope it can be directed at the politicians and policy makers and that good can come out of it.

2shoes · 23/01/2011 15:20

OLD THREAD

working9while5 · 23/01/2011 15:35

I don't get it? Why is she so awful? She sounds like she just couldn't cope. There but for the Grace of God...

telluthetruth · 24/01/2011 22:06

I guess people feel she's exploiting her story and that she didn't give Imogen a chance when she may have had financial backing that many don't yet who struggle on regardless. the point is she didn't have the emotional support she needed and I feel for her. She must also feel guilty and needs to justify her decision.

Yet her choice and how she has chosen to publicize it for many feels like a devaluing of the lives of those who made the choice to care and those they care for.

I think JH was brutally honest about her feelings and this is why so many have taken against her.

Yes, there but for the grace we all go, but how many of us would capitalize on it if we had done the same?

These are all difficult questions. I for one don't judge her no matter how uncomfortable her approach makes me feel.

donkeyderby · 24/01/2011 23:05

I appreciate the fact that she was brutally honest.

I don't appreciate the fact that she keeps making money out of her decision and that those who kept their children under similar circumstances OR WORSE don't have the time or energy to write articles. I can only hope she gives the money to the woman who does the mothering of her child

PipinJo · 25/01/2011 17:13

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Jimmychasesangels · 25/01/2011 17:21

she won't have been the first woman to do this, but to sell it as the "answer" to sell her story and being about her "brave" decision.
to go public and make money. that is what I judged her for.
oh and taking all her babies stuff to the dump, to cleanse the house of her........

BooBooGlass · 25/01/2011 17:24

Alright Julia? Hmm

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ivykaty44 · 25/01/2011 18:01

JH will not have been paid for this and the mail can write what they want even if they write it in a different way or add things in or take things out, even the fact you can complain is almost mythical with the regulations so tight about making complaints against any newspaper

pagwatch · 25/01/2011 18:04

Why has this old thread been resurrected ?

BooBooGlass · 25/01/2011 18:07

Quite.

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TallulahdoesthehulainHawaii · 25/01/2011 18:54

Yawn

IAmReallyFabNow · 25/01/2011 19:06

i am sick of hearing about this woman. She really pisses me off.