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Victoria Beckham,Bad mother or not?

168 replies

charlize · 19/11/2003 11:41

I used to think that posh came across as a really loving caring mum who had her priorities right.
Brooklyn seemed to go every where with her and there were lots of pics in the press of her dressed down out shopping etc with him. I really admired the way she juggled work and family life and respected the way she prefered not have a nanny but have family members help out.

In fact she said several times in interviews and I believe in her book that it was v important to her not to have a nanny, but to raise brooklyn as a family unit.

Am I the only one to think this has totally gone out of the window since she had Romeo.
That poor baby seems to have hardly seen his mother since he was born.
He has been taken to hospital 3 times in 5 weeks and only one of those times was his mother in the same country as him.
Not to the mention that those two kids must have no stucture or routine to there lives at all.
One minute there in Madrid the next London Then Manchestwr, then New York then Japan.
How many air miles has Romeo clocked up in just 14 mths. And how healthy is this?
To me she seems incredibly selfish, She has millions in the bank for gods sake, she can afford to cut back a little on the globe trotting surley even if just for a few months so the kids can settle in one place and perhaps she could be bothered to finally enrole brookly in school.
Rant over

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katierocket · 19/11/2003 12:45

not worked up charlize just stating opinion.

cody - one thing to say, for e.g. "I think mothers that go to work are wrong" another to say "I think that specific mother is a bad mother"(even though I don't know her)

katierocket · 19/11/2003 12:46

ps. I just love a good scrap.

suzywong · 19/11/2003 12:48

Charlize and katierocket .. I am trying to start a scrap on the Michael Jackson thread BUNDLE...........

codswallop · 19/11/2003 12:48

OOh I agree in theory but celebs set themselves up for this!

Have some fun you lot

Its wicked but harless

oliveoil · 19/11/2003 12:49

charlize - come back! It always surprises me when people get the hump about someone elses posts, or do I have a super thick skin?

katierocket · 19/11/2003 12:51

suzywong - come and have a go..,...

SoupDragon · 19/11/2003 12:53

All we see of VB is the jet setting, mini skirt wearing celebrity. We don't know if she sings lullabies to Romeo over the phone when she's away. We don't know whether she gets up to comfort Brooklyn if he wakes with a nightmare. Does she clean up sick in the middle of the night? Does she change nappies? Who knows - I guess we'll never find out.

Northerner · 19/11/2003 12:53

Charlize - sorry your first attempt at a thread has not been such a good one. Please don't let that put you off. Sometimes people do get a bit worked up, but it's not personal. There are plenty of celeb gossip mongers on here (me included)and we love a good old bitching session sometimes.

But love or loathe VB - everyone seems to have an opinion!

Northerner · 19/11/2003 12:54

Soupy - I feel for her kids if she does sing lullabies!

SoupDragon · 19/11/2003 12:56
Grin
charlize · 19/11/2003 12:56

Olive oil, Honestly I haven't got the hump
Iam just feeling a bit silly, and I think a bit sensitive.
I REALLY don't want anyone to think this is a slag off against working mothers because I did not mean that AT all.

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charlize · 19/11/2003 12:58

Thanks northerner and olive oil.

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Norma · 19/11/2003 13:00

Actually Charlize, I think it's us old hags hogging the pc who are the bad mothers. I just throw my son a biscuit every now and then.

marialuisa · 19/11/2003 13:00

I think that saying "all mums who work are bad" or wahtever KatieRocket said she considered ok much more likely to be offensive and much more blinkered.

VB is very lucky to be able to employ her own immediate family to act as main carers/drivers and so on. But it is a fact that she's away from her kids, out of choice, for quite large chunks of time and that is something that many mums will find hard to relate to.

Anyway, one of my tenuous claims to fame is that my godfather turned down an offer they made on his hose in madrid.

suzywong · 19/11/2003 13:01

glad that's all sorted out .. back to VB ... not sure she's bad mother just can't have her cake and eat it, I mean take endless photo ops clutching gorgeous children and then not expect people's interest to wane when it comes to their education and welfare.
Plus am jealous of her and David, although he sounds comical he is very prettyn and would be lovely to have around the house.

katierocket · 19/11/2003 13:05

no, no charlize - I used that as an example to cody to show why I thought it was different from her saying mumsnetters are usually OK with being judgemental

I wasn't suggesting you were trying to slag off working mothers.

notherner (I've got a brilliant mental image of brooklyn "err...no thanks mummy, I don't want another lullaby, I'm really tired now and want to go to sleep"

SoupDragon · 19/11/2003 13:05

Personally, I'd love to pop off to a foreign country and leave my children behind occasionally...

katierocket · 19/11/2003 13:07

marialuisa I wasn't saying that at all!!

I was using it as an example on how on mumsnet its quite common for their to be generalisations about people but I was saying this is more specific as its about one person (that we don't know)

oliveoil · 19/11/2003 13:08

I felt sorry for her when Romeo had a fall and cut his head and all the headlines were 'ooooh she's not here she was in NY/London etc'. It was a normal toddler fall, if dd falls when I am at work, am I a bad mum too?

Re lullabies - a choice between her 'voice' or David's whine? Poor poor children.

codswallop · 19/11/2003 13:10

ok then - so are we all friends?

lets get back to the slagging..

katierocket · 19/11/2003 13:10

ahhhh.... can't we carry on scrapping.
I'm going to be waiting for you behind the bike sheds after school.....

suzywong · 19/11/2003 13:12

does she have false tits or not.. whaddyathink????

codswallop · 19/11/2003 13:12

deffo.

oliveoil · 19/11/2003 13:14

Boobs always look perky and rise up your chest after 2 kids don't they?

WSM · 19/11/2003 13:25

Without a doubt. You'd think with all that moeny she'd at least be able to afford to have a decent job done on them, they look like 2 half coconut shells have been sewn under her skin. God only knows hows she expects us to believe that they are homegrown !

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