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16 Celeb Mom Posts That Brought Out All the Mommy Shamers

EntertainmentPublished Apr 7, 2017
By Jacqueline Burt Cote
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victoriabeckham/InstagramParenting in the public eye has got to be tough -- especially when everything any mom ever posts on social media gets relentlessly picked apart by a chorus of vicious mommy-shamers. Even completely innocent moves made by celeb moms are criticized, with some notorious photos causing ridiculously huge controversies ... when they weren't even doing anything wrong!

The photos in this slideshow ruffled lots of fans' feathers, but (with a couple of obvious exceptions) we can't seem to find anything objectionable about them. In fact, we can see ourselves doing some of the very same things.

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Pink
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Pink

People apparently freaked out when Pink didn't position the straps on her daughter Willow's car seat properly, with the buckle on her belly instead of her chest. The thing is, though, how do we know the car was even moving?? Maybe they just posed for a quick snap and Pink fixed the straps before they hit the road.

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Kim Kardashian
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Kim Kardashian

What could possibly be wrong with this photo of North West (captioned "Goth Nori")? That she's wearing dark lipstick, according to many people, like some kind of teenager. Sheesh, whatever happened to playing dress up?

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Farrah Abraham
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Farrah Abraham

Farrah Abraham gets slammed for the choices she makes as a mom on a pretty consistent basis, but the reason this photo was criticized is actually pretty silly: People thought her daughter Sophia looked like she was wearing mascara. Um, who cares?!

More from CafeMom: 16 Celebrities the Internet Mom-Shamed for Their Parenting

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Jessa (Duggar) Seewald
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Jessa (Duggar) Seewald

This seemingly innocent photo of Duggar daughter Jessa's husband Ben sitting in a coffee shop with son Spurgeon brought out haters who claimed the parents were putting their baby at risk by letting him nap in his car seat because the straps could strangle him. (Unlikely -- especially with his dad sitting right there and his mom snapping pics.)

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Mackenzie Douthit
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Mackenzie Douthit

Well, this one is a no-brainer: Pose a 4-year-old with a gun (even a BB gun) and you're bound to get your share of warranted negative responses, as Teen Mom 3's Mackenzie Douthit learned when she posted this pic of her son Gannon.

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Bethenny Frankel
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Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel's daughter thought it was pretty funny that her mom could fit into her nightgown and pajama shorts -- but commenters were less amused and more ... alarmed. Can't a petite lady live?! (Interestingly, during her divorce proceedings, a Manhattan judge actually agreed with the commenters that Frankel should stop wearing her daughter's outfits ... whoops.)

More from CafeMom: 15 Celeb Mom BFFs Who Make Us Wanna Hang With Our Own Besties

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Madonna
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Madonna

Many an eyebrow were raised in concern when Madonna posted this photo of her then 13-year-old son Rocco holding a bottle of gin with the caption "The party has just begun! Bring it! 2014" (Okay, that IS a young to be partying quite so hard! But who knows, maybe the bottles of booze were just a joke. Here's hoping.)

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Jenelle Evans
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Jenelle Evans

Jenelle Evans is a favorite target of mommy-shamers, so it's no surprise that commenters flipped when she posted a pic of her son Kaiser sleeping with a bottle in his mouth (pediatricians advise against letting babies sleep with a bottle, as it can lead to tooth decay). Hey, sometimes it happens!

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Kourtney Kardashian
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Kourtney Kardashian

Fans (and non-fans) were not happy when Kourtney posed her kids on top of dad Scott Disick's Mercedes G-Wagon (worth more than $122,000), pointing out that the kids could fall off. Their mom is standing right there, though!

More from CafeMom: 21 Outrageous Celebrity Baby Scandals

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Victoria Beckham
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Victoria Beckham

There's nothing at all inappropriate about a mother kissing her 5-year-old daughter on the mouth (on her birthday, no less!), but tell that to the mommy police who went after Victoria Beckham for this post!

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Jess Hilarious
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Jess Hilarious

Commenters (some of whom are famous!) were downright vicious when comedian and Instagram personality Jess Hilarious posted this nude pic with her 4-year-old son, going so far as to call the mom a "whore." Seriously?!

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Kristin Cavallari
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Kristin Cavallari

Poor Kristin Cavallari was accused of starving her sons after posting this pic of her family on the beach. First of all, some kids are just skinny -- and second, those are not allegations anyone should make lightly!

More from CafeMom: 12 Celebrities Who Were Body-Shamed Post-Pregnancy

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Christina El Moussa
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Christina El Moussa

It might be tough at first glance to figure out why people were upset with Flip or Flop star Christina El Moussa over this post. Give up? Apparently, it's because her 19-month-old son Brayden James was too close to the pool. Seems he had plenty of supervision!

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Chrissy Teigen
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Chrissy Teigen

Chrissy Teigen was NOT having any of the self-righteous tweets criticizing the way she carried baby Luna while out with husband John Legend. And while we're sorry that people gave Teigen a hard time over nothing, we're not sorry that the scandal resulted in one of the greatest celeb clapbacks of all time (pictured here)!

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Amber Rose

Amber Rose's video of her 3-year-old son Sebastian getting a Halloween-themed pedicure is nothing but adorable to us, but some incredibly ignorant commenters slammed Rose for "making" her son gay -- wrong on SO many levels.

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Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey couldn't even pose for a silly bedtime shot with her twins without getting torn apart -- not when her then 4-year-old son Moroccan had a pacifier in his mouth! (Judgy moms said he was way too old! Whatever!)

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