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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

OP posts:
fio2 · 20/11/2003 14:33

my ds (just turned 2) has eaten a Mcdonalds for lunch today and yes he asked for it - sorry dont see the harm

oliveoil · 20/11/2003 14:36
fio2 · 20/11/2003 14:37

lol oliveoil

Northerner · 20/11/2003 14:38

Loosen up Tomps!

It just makes me laugh that this thread is all about VB flying here there and everywhere, with and without her kids and if they have a stable family life with a permanant base or not. And there's you going 'OOOh, she's taken Romeo to Macdonalds, I'm so dissapointed'

It's hardly crime of the century.

Northerner · 20/11/2003 14:40

OliveOil - I'm def with you on the clubbing thing.

FairyMum · 20/11/2003 14:49

As long as it wasn't Burger King.....

Twinkie · 20/11/2003 15:15

Message withdrawn

Northerner · 20/11/2003 15:35

Yes give her a Kit Kat too. She needs fattening up.

Northerner · 20/11/2003 15:38

Yes give her a Kit Kat too. She needs fattening up.

ThomCat · 20/11/2003 15:48

I agree Twinkie. What I know of her through the press - I hate. She pisses me right off and would love her to give me an excuse to punch her in her pout if I ever met her - but I wouldn't comment on whether I think she was a good mother or not.

Northerner · 20/11/2003 15:53

Unyet we all feel we can comment on Michael Jackson's parenting skills and we don't know him personally.................

suzywong · 20/11/2003 15:55

try the Michael Jackson thread on this note ... it is getting a bit overt ... so don't go on if you are feeling sensitive ... but it does raise interesting questions about who polices celebreties especially when kids are involved.

katierocket · 20/11/2003 16:04

thomcat and twinkie - at last - someone agrees with me!

was beginning to feel like the evil kiljoy mumsnetter...

ThomCat · 20/11/2003 16:34

I don't feel I can comment on Michael Jackson either Northener

Northerner · 20/11/2003 16:42

Well I think that the way VB courts the press she holds herself open to all sorts of criticism. She could live a much more private life if she wanted to. There are many other famous people with kids and we wouldn't event know what they looked like.

fio2 · 20/11/2003 16:53

the tabloid press are disgusting though, sorry. Look how they have been saying Geri Halliwell is fat again, it's just uncalled for.

ThomCat · 20/11/2003 16:59

She does hold herself open for comment yes - like I said I don't like her - but still can't comment on her skills as a mother, the same as I can't comment on what she's like as a lover!. I don't know what she's like when she's alone with her boys. I don't like her one little bit and wish we (the great British public) could just all forget about her so when she comes back to the UK she's a no-one again.

handlemecarefully · 20/11/2003 20:11

How did people manage to find something to have a spat about in this thread ? - my radar didn't sense that this was going to be a red rag subject.

Bemused.........

codswallop · 20/11/2003 20:17

I dont get it either - listen I HATE the Mooncup thread - (there i have said it,) so I dont read it!

Thats it

fio2 · 20/11/2003 20:24

WE DONT KNOW THE WOMAN AND DONT BUY TABLOID PAPERS AND GROTTY MAGS

codswallop · 20/11/2003 20:25

Ooh but I love Heat magazine....!

fio2 · 20/11/2003 20:27

I have to hide it if I buy it cos my dh goes mad

codswallop · 20/11/2003 20:28

Really Lol here Fio.

a cackle even.

So Heat is your dirty mag then??

fio2 · 20/11/2003 20:28

well not mad but takes the piss

codswallop · 20/11/2003 20:28

(and thenreads it in the bog?!!)

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