Kristin Cavallari has a hundred reasons people could criticize her. Ten years ago, she played somewhat of a villain on Laguna Beach and The Hills, and the reality star’s image has yet to fully recover. Couple that with her outspokenness against childhood vaccination, and you’ve got the perfect storm for other mamas to get up in arms. Still, after Cavallari’s recent Instagram post, we can’t help but feel like the mom-shaming has gone too far.
Recently, Cavallari posted a photo of her children celebrating July 4th on a beach. Her boys appeared to be rather thin (as children sometimes are), and users bashed the mama saying she starves her kids.
Users said things like “I understand you live a very strict dietary lifestyle but these children are very obviously nutritionally deficient” and “Seeing pictures of your boys and how they look is a bit shocking to see! I know you cook healthy but to see the bones just doesn’t seem normal, sorry!”
Cavallari, who married quarterback Jay Cutler, has her family on a very strict, healthy diet to help manage her husband’s diabetes. The family eats mostly organic and only wild-caught fish and grass-fed beef. Just because her children aren’t munching on high-fat Happy Meals like the rest of America, doesn’t mean they aren’t getting enough calories. Rightly so, the 29-year-old mother spoke out against the haters and said “Yep, I starve my children. Just blocked the most people I’ve ever blocked in my entire life. Happy 4th hahaha.” At least she’s got the right attitude.
Criticize Cavallari for what you want, but you can’t deny that the star has distanced herself from the reality TV world. She’s a married mother who is relatively low-key — at least as far as Hollywood goes — but she can’t even share a photo of her children without being slammed. Criticizing the mother for her views on vaccination is something we’d expect. It’s a hot-button topic that is widely debated among parents, but prodding the actress about her children’s weight doesn’t seem all that appropriate. The Internet will always have an opinion, though. Trolls are always trolling.
What do you think? Were the other mothers in the right to speak out about her children’s weight?
