Binky Felstead has hit back at “hurtful and unjustified” abuse from online trolls who criticised the way she held her newborn baby.
The former Made In Chelsea star recalled how she went on This Morning with her first child, daughter India, now five, and was targeted on Twitter for holding her ‘incorrectly’.
She said: “I remember going on This Morning when India was a newborn baby and getting so much abuse on Twitter about how I was holding her. It was really hurtful and unjustified. Ever since, I’ve blanked out the mummy police because there are so many. I just block and delete.”
The 32-year-old added that years of torrid childhood bullying had equipped her to deal with the hurtful negativity online. At school, she was bullied so badly she “used to cry every morning without fail in the school’s chapel”, explaining how she “couldn’t sing the hymns because I was crying so much. Nobody spoke to me.”
She continues: “The bullying has made me such a strong person today. Whenever I get s**t on Instagram, it doesn’t affect me.”
Naturally, Binky, who is pregnant with her third child and second Max, worries about her children being subjected to the same vile abuse she was.
She said: “India is in Year One now and I’m always watching out for any bullying. I’m a Tiger Mummy! Someone called her a loser last year and I was like, ‘Excuse me!’ to this little boy. I have to be careful I don’t get too involved.”
Binky, who has released her part autobiographical, part self-help book, The Making Of You: A Guide To Finding Your Identity And Bossing Motherhood, was once famed for her glamorous lifestyle full of friendship dramas and relationship struggles on E4’s Made In Chelsea, but left the show in 2017 to focus on her daughter India, now five.
She found strength and self-worth from being a single mother in ways she’d never experienced, following years of being bullied as a child and living through her parents’ difficult divorce.
However, while parenting has enriched Binky’s life, doing it in the public eye hasn’t been easy.
She concluded: “After India was born it was really weird. I’d have four paps outside my house. They followed us everywhere, which is scary enough when you’re putting a new baby in the car. They were going over red lights, almost running people over on the crossings.
“It got really nasty. Obviously, you kind of sign up to that when you join a TV show but it made me really nervous that I was going to crash, or what were they going to say if I got the baby out of the car seat the wrong way.”
The Making of You by Binky Felstead is available on Piatkus Books now
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