Does anyone know a 'yummy-mummy'? Are you one?

[MerryMarigold]

I don't think I know any. I know some young mums who are pretty and slim (but not hugely conscious of it or flaunting it). I know some older mummies who are not really yummy (inc myself in that group!) but have all the gadgets (don't include myself in that group). Maybe it's my postcode...

But what exactly IS a yummy mummy and where do they come from?

a yummy mummy is one you pass on the street. the ones you actually know, you know what they're going through and what their lives are like, and you feel the usual solidarity with any other parent and wouldn't exchange with them for a minute. IMO.

Hate this phrase.

So very patronising, IMO.

I always thought it was quite complimentary!

So did I! I would love to qualify as a yummy mummy, but sadly I don't come anywhere near!

I live next door to one. She takes her children to school, and then goes out with her friends.

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Ha ha!!

I love this phrase! I like to think I am a yummy-mummy (though I prefer hot-mama!)

Once I was in harvey nics doing some shopping and the 2 woman serving me called me a yummy-mummy I felt great as the girls were stunning!
One of them said she hoped she's like me when shes got kids! AND she was older than me!! Man, that was a good day.

And the guys in my band actually call me MILF as a nickname!

So - I think I am one, and I like it!

Does it just mean you stayed slim after having kids and wear makeup and are pretty?

I don't get all this 'yummy mummy' business.

I put it in the same category with accents, elocution, obsession with owning property and other British constructs I will never understand.

Well.. well... .. I KNOW I'm one because I've got a charity tshirt with it on!!!

I do prefer MILF. I'm not even a MILF, and MILF connoisseurs have lower standards.

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Ah, this explains much, Pruni .

Another one I must mentally throw up my hands to, for now I see I shall certainly never understand this.

Ignorance is bliss!

I don't think a yummymummy and a MILF are the same thing. A yummymummy looks 'nice' but in a sweet kind of way - not a 'hot' kind of way, IMO.

And a yummymummy has to do lunches with other yummymummies, have beautiful well mannered children and do lots of interesting wholesome activities with them too. Yummymummy is about the whole package of stellar mummydom not just the looks. A yummymummy certainly would never contemplate f**king someone who wasn't her comrade in arms - the yummydaddy

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I am so confused!

Perhaps - but only if she could fit the manicurist in at the same time

I thought it referred to mothers who were really perfect in every way. Not the sort like myself, who leave Sainsburys in charge of their childrens birthday cakes etc!

Yes, of course PC - home made birthday cakes are de rigour for the yummymummy

Bree Hodge is one isn't she!! (I have Bree-envy!)

Hmmm - not sure if Bree is nurturing enough of her children to be a yummymummy. A bit brittle perhaps?

But her children are beastly!! Who'd want to nurture them! (She tries so hard to be perfect bless her, she really ought to get the YummyMummy award if nothing else!)

Well she definitely fails the test - yummymummies only ever have perfect children. Afterall of the perfect parenting they do, how could their children possibly turn out to be less than perfect?

If a yummy mummy is like Bree Hodge (I still prefer Van De Kamp..), then I'm NOT one after all!!

Still a MILF though..

I'm so not one! More like Crummy mummy most of the time. Always try my best though. They are still surviving so thats a plus in my favour.

Oooh noooo Bree isn't MILF.. she's too posh to f*ck!!

My cousin, who is 51 and who has an 18 year old son, is called MILF by his friends. Everyone compares me to my cousin (I am 17 years younger) so perhaps I will develop into MILF over time..?!