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Which celeb mums get your vote?
Read what babyworld members said about celebrity mums. |
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Top (and bottom) of the mums
The increasing numbers of new celebrity gossip magazines would suggest
that we as a nation just love reading about what the rich and famous get
up to. But are we as obsessed with celebrities when it comes to how they
behave during pregnancy, where they give birth and whether they raise
their children themselves or hire a supernanny to do so?
We asked this question on our Discuss, Debate and Deliberate forum and
most of the replies claimed that they did not really care two hoots about
what celeb mums got up to.
You certainly did not base your parenting decisions on actions taken,
or products endorsed by, famous females. If pushed, and we mean really
pushed to name a celeb mum you admire the most, Big Brother presenter
Davina McCall passed the test with flying colours for her down-to-earth
approach to parenting. The mum who fared worst was Katie Price (aka Jordan),
berated for parading her children on the covers of magazines to sell a
story.
To be extra sure, we ran a poll on which celeb mum would get your top
votes and these were the results:
Read on to see exactly what babyworld members thought of celebs and
why…
“They’re the same as us, just with added problems”
Celebrity mums are just the same as normal mums, except they are in the
public eye and anything they do wrong is known about by millions. Some
are good mums, some are awful. Some let fame take over and it takes priority
over their children.
Some are a bad influence (drugs/weight etc) and some don’t care, they
will do what they wish and are good influences. Same as us, just with
added problems due to their fame.
Gem
“Celeb mums don’t seem very relevant to me”
“I’ve always seen Victoria Beckham as quite a good role model in the
sense that she’s stayed with the same man and appears on the surface to
be a good mum to her children.
They’re not splashed over Hello! magazine or raised by nannies
for their entire lives. Generally, I don’t really have much of an opinion
about celebrity mums, they just don’t seem very relevant to me.
I don’t know any of them for a start. I suppose if pushed to think of
one I feel I like, it would be Davina McCall, who seems pretty normal
and stable!”
Kelly
“A mum is a mum, regardless of whether they are famous
or not”
“A mum is a mum regardless if they are famous or not, they love their
children as much as any other mother would.
I think being in the public eye makes it harder for them sometimes but
they knew this when they decided to become pregnant. Of course they do
what they can to protect their children as much as we would.”
Anita
“Thumbs up to breast-feeding homebirther Davina!”
I couldn’t really give a monkey’s about celeb mums, except when you see
things like Kate Moss being drugged up all over the place – she has a
little daughter, so sad.
Thumbs up to Davina McCall though, home-birthing breastfeeder that she
is, who keeps her kids out of the public eye! Good on her.”
Laura
“Celeb mums are under too much pressure to be perfect”
“I feel a bit sorry for celeb mums, to be honest. Take Britney Spears
for example; who knows what she is really like with her children? You
see all these horror stories in the papers that she won’t look after her
children for more than 10 minutes, that she never has them on her own…
But how do we really know this is the truth?
I would hate to be a first-time mum and a celebrity. Too much pressure
to be ‘perfect’.”
Thea
“The best mums keep their kids out of the papers”
“I think the best celebrity mothers are those who you are ‘surprised’
to learn they have children because you so rarely see them splashed over
the papers and magazines. Kate Moss, for example (despite her questionable
choice of boyfriend): what do we the public know about her daughter Lilah?
Nothing at all.
Davina McCall I like because she promotes homebirth and breastfeeding,
both of which I am interested in. Celeb mums like Kerry Katona and Britney
Spears confuse me because it just seems alien to me how they can have
all these (highly publicised) problems and cannot see that the solution
is right in front of their nose: GO HOME, have a cup of tea and give your
kids a cuddle.”
Rach
“There are many celeb mums who try to be as normal
as possible”
“For every celeb mum who seems to be out on the town every night, has
a full-time nanny to do the child rearing, popping pills and snorting
drugs left right and centre, there are the celeb mums who try to be as
normal a mum as they can be to their kids
. I can name a few: Gwen Steffani (well known for baby wearing and extended
breastfeeding), Lucy Lawless (attachment parenting mummy, cloth, co-sleeping,
ex-breast-feeder etc) Davina McCall (homebirthing and breastfeeding),
Angelina Jolie (breastfeeding and baby wearing).
They are all earthy, maternal kind of mums who spend lots of time with
their kids and parent in a slightly different way to what seems to be
the trend in celeb circles.”
Kittyp05
“Some celeb mums make us mere mortals feel like second-class
citizens”
“I’m not hugely into the whole ‘celeb’ thing and don’t buy things like
OK and Hello!. I do think the whole celebrity ‘too posh
to push and I’ll have liposuction and breast implants at the same time’
thing is dangerous and stupid, and is trying to make us mere mortals with
a bit of tummy and other wobbly bits seem like second-class citizens.
If I had to choose, my favourite celeb mum would be Davina McCall. She
doesn’t plaster her kids over mags at ever opportunity – in fact I don’t
think I’ve ever seen pictures of them at all. She is a normal mum and
comes over as if she’d be fun to have round for a coffee.
Least favourite ‘mother’: Jordan. Can’t stand the woman. She exploits
her kids all over the tabloids and magazines for cash and is the kids
of woman you would cross the road to avoid, rather than have her round
for a cuppa.”
Morag
“Being a parent is hard enough without having a camera
in your face 24/7″
“I’m not at all interested whether or not a celebrity woman is a mum
or not, mums are mums and it doesn’t matter who you are: children need
to be loved and nurtured regardless of the fact that their parents are
in the public eye. I do think however that some celebrity mums get bad
press and the wrong headline is often put with a picture of them doing
nothing at all like what is being said.
I think being a parent is hard enough without the added pressure of
a camera in your face 24/7. I do admire the likes of Katie Price who has
the added struggle of a disabled son. She always seems to put her children
first and will put nothing before Harvey. I know I will probably get slated
for mentioning her and some of you may say she is always off working or
promoting but she leaves her children with family only and knows they
are safe. I do this when I go to work so no different there then.”
Alfene
“I wonder why most celebs have kids”
“Well I don’t tend to follow celeb news all that much because I find
it all a bit boring but there are enough other people who do, that I hear
about most of it anyway. I don’t look to the celebs for ideas on childrearing
and to be honest, I wonder why most of them even have kids.
They spend so much time working and travelling that a nanny is practically
raising the children for them. If you don’t intend on actually raising
children why have kids?
I also can’t say that I admire any orange perma-tanned, fake women who
parade their disabled child around for money and publicity, regardless
of who babysits their kids.”
Danielle
“It’s not fair to comment on what kind of mothers
celebs make”
“I don’t think that it is fair to comment on what mothers celebs make
from the way in which they choose to give birth. I don’t think that they
should be labelled ‘good or bad’ mothers depending on them having a c-section
or a homebirth.
What should matter is how they behave after they have had a baby. There
are more positive role models out there who are working mums trying to
combine a happy home life with a career and making their children’s formative
years as ‘normal’ as possible.”
Rachael25
“I wonder what Gwen is up to these days?”
“I don’t read Heat or OK or any of those kinds of things,
I’m not all that interested in ‘celebrity lifestyles’ or whatever you
want to call it. Although I know that Gwen Stefani had her baby about
a week after I had my daughter, and in some of my more glamorous moments
of early motherhood (i.e., at 3:30 am, sleep deprived and unshowered and
wiping down the poo that has somehow managed to shoot all the way up her
back to her neck), I did sometimes think to myself ‘Gee, I wonder what
Gwen is up to these days…’.”
KellieH
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