Sherri Shepherd a 'tricked' Mother?

Meet Sherri Shepherd...

(Above taken from Wikipedia website.) 

I would like to add to her occupation: Heartless, selfish, disgusting excuse for a 'Mother'.  

Let me tell you her story...

Sherri was married to a man called Lamar Sally, after 3 years they separated- no big deal right? 

WRONG. 

When they were together they decided to have a baby and used a surrogate but when the baby was born, because Sherri and Lamar were no longer together Sherri decided against looking after her baby boy and instead denied him as he had no 'DNA connection' to her and said she was 'tricked' into having him. 

Tricked to me means your husband messing with your contraception pills or poking holes in condoms, it does not mean searching for a surrogate for a reported 8 months, deciding to impregnate her with your husbands sperm and pay her $30,000. 

Biological or not, once you have started a journey on becoming a mother be it naturally, through adoption or surrogacy you can't suddenly turn your back on an innocent child and say it's not yours biologically so you have changed your mind and you're walking away. That is just disgusting and unacceptable. 

Thankfully a judge agreed and Sherri was forced by a judge to be named the baby's mother meaning she will have to support him whether she likes it or not. 

Sherri has spoken since in an interview with ET and said: 'I'm doing really really well. I don't care what I go through, nothing gets me down...'

And the most laughable comment:

'My integrity speaks for itself.' 

Yes, yes it does Sherri. 

It's nice to know that you 'don't care' what you go through (none of the rest of us do either) but to not care about your son is despicable. Throughout the interview she did not mention her 'son' once or give any indication that she was anything but a horrific excuse for a woman. 

Shame on you Sherri. Let's all hope she gets forgotten about and fades into the background sooner rather than later, just as she wishes her son to. 

For those of you with a heart, the baby is doing well and is with his father Lamar, they are struggling financially while Sherri is sitting comfortably after earning a reported $3 million last year. 

Let's hope karma catches up with her and her 'integrity'. 

Viral...

This picture has been doing the rounds of the internet over the past week...

The debate has been kicking off over whether breast feeding on the toilet is acceptable or not. 

I'm ending the debate, it's not. -End of. 

Personally I'm more interested in her tampon stash and the fact that she bought her phone to the toilet with her. 

Next topic...

Dying for diets...

The summer is coming, my bikini body is not ready (nor has it been for at least 5 years) and I needed a quick fix so I, like many other women bought diet pills a few weeks ago...

They are supposed to help shift excess weight and all you have to do is take a couple of pills a day. Easy peasy. 

I used them for about a week, drank aloe vera juice (which by the way literally tastes like vomit) restricted my diet but nothing happened so I stopped taking them and bought a family sized bar of Dairy Milk. Patience is not one of my virtues. 

However I am so glad I stopped taking them after reading the latest diet pill horror story. 

Eloise Parry was a 21 year old student in the prime of her life, last week she died after taking diet pills containing an industrial chemical DNP (dinitrophenol) which is a toxin similar in substance to TNT. A lethal amount was just 2 pills, Eloise had taken 8. 

Unfortunately reports such as these are becoming increasingly common, as the obsession with the 'perfect' body is taking over. 

Social media such as Twitter and Instagram have let us get closer than ever to our favourite celebrities and their constant updates of selfies, belfies and thigh gaps. With 'diet' pills easier than ever to get hold of, the sad reports of young people dying for diets will keep on increasing. 

When I was about 14 the diet pill of 'the moment' was called Hoodia. I read celebrity magazines and thought I can get a body like that if I take these pills. 10 minutes and a few clicks later, my pills were on their way to my house and I was on my way to a new body. 

I remember telling friends I had bought them and they called me mad and stupid but that made me just want to prove them wrong and show them that I could do it. 

There are not many things in life I can say I am happy that I failed at but my Hoodia diet lasted only a few days and before long the pills were in the bin and I was happily eating chocolate cheesecake again. 

Unfortunately though, these pills are far to easy to get hold of and for impressionable young girls with the determination to lose weight (unlike me) they are deadly. 

I have dabbled twice and luckily I have been ok, but what if the pills that I picked had contained a deadly substance that I was not aware of? 

I don't think banning pills would work as that could cause more harm with increasingly desperate people grabbing whatever they could find on the black market but there needs to be some sort of regulation and education. 

Most of these deadly pills are sold as pesticides and not fit for human consumption so how are people able to get hold of them? 

I looked at the back of my diet pill bottle...

I have no clue what is in these pills and didn't bother to check before I had taken them. The deal was sealed when I read online that they can 'help you lose weight.' I picked these up in my local Holland and Barrett which I may add there is nothing on this particular bottle which claims to aid weight loss, in fact the bottle doesn't claim anything other than the pills are raspberry ketones. 

However the same can't be said for some of the pills available online...

Before customers are able to buy these pills there should be warnings that pop up and maybe even a questionnaire called 'do you understand what is in these pills?' With a list of ingredients and potential side effects including: Death. 

Or all 'diet' pills should have to be tested and on the bottles it should read: Fit for human consumption. If the bottle doesn't state that scentence, they should not be able to be sold online, in shops or anywhere. Anyone ignoring this should be jailed immediately as a danger to society. 

I'm just throwing out ideas but something needs to be done before these pills cause more misery. 

We should also be educating our children that if something seems to be too good to be true, then it probably is and if you eat crisps, chocolate and sweets everyday and don't exercise enough, you will get fat. 

It's sad but true, eat less and move more because a quick fix could end up with you being put in the ground quicker than you expected. 

Emergency...

While lounging in the bath and reading 'New!' I came across a very interesting and valid point from none other than Peter Andre...

(Every one loves a bit of Peter, don't tell anyone but I used to have a poster of him on my wall which I used to kiss every night before I went to sleep, come to think of it, I think it's in my memory box now.) 

Anyway, while Peter was shocked that 1 in 3 children hadn't been taught to dial 999 in an emergency, I was not, as I have not taught my own child Scarlett. 

To be honest, I have thought about it briefly but I didn't in the end as I didn't think she would understand to call 999 in an emergency and because if she thought it was a game I could end up with the emergency services round my flat every other day. 

I Googled to find out more and found out through a recent Daily Mail article that the survey had been carried out by Mumsnet. 

757 parents took part and found that 37 per cent of parents had not told their child how to dial 999. 53 per cent admitted they had not even considered teaching their children. 

46 per cent said their children were not mature enough to know who to call in an emergency, which is exactly what I thought. 

However, Mumsnet has a website www.999forkids.com which suggests parents build on their children's favourite characters such as Fireman Sam to teach them about what to do in an emergency as the website suggests that children under 5 should be taught what to do. 

As part of their mission to get parents to teach their children about emergency's, there is a hard hitting video of a 5 year old girl Elleemae, who saved her Mums life by dialling 999 after she had an epileptic fit. 

Anyone who doesn't teach their child to dial 999 after listening to that call is a fool. 

Scarlett is watching Fireman Sam now so once it is finished I will be having a chat with her about what to do in an emergency.

I may just thank my lucky stars that I did one day, oh and Peter Andre. 

Am I a bad parent for not pushing my child enough?

Scarlett recently came home with more homework, she's 5 and I think it's beyond ridiculous, so I've boycotted it. 

There is no way that once she has come home from school I'm going to sit her down and practice spellings with her. I'd rather go to the shop, buy her some sweets and watch a film or go to the park, so that is what we do. 

However, today Scarlett willingly got her spelling book from her bag and said she wanted to practice writing, so I said ok...

(If you are wondering where the word 'mum' is, it's probably on the previous page that I haven't looked at.)

This was Scarlett's effort...

The words she has written are not the words that are on the page she is practicing from but I said well done and then we ordered Chinese food. 

I wasn't going to sit there and tell her it wasn't quite right and she should do it 'like this.' She made an effort and I didn't want to put her off by putting her down. 

Some may argue I could have said it 'nicely' to soften the blow but the fact that she tried is enough for me, but should I push for more? 

It's all very well saying I'm boycotting the homework as she should be 'learning through play' (it says that statement somewhere in the school prospectus) but could I potentially be damaging my child? 

If all of the other parents are doing the homework with their child, Scarlett could be the child at the bottom of the class because of me. 

I think it's incredibly unfair to put this pressure on the parents and children when adjusting to being in school should surely be the priority? 

I do agree that spelling in this country is an issue (ok, on plenty of fish.) Most are unable to spell restaurant (to a restarant is where guys want to go on a first date. Good luck finding one of those, and a date) and don't even get me started on your, you're, they're, there, and their. 

But is 5 not too young to be pushing kids? They will have to endure endless amounts of homework and learning over the next few years, can't we give them a break for the first year? 

For now I will let Scarlett do her homework if she wants to, not because I'm making her and I will wait to be scorned at the next parents evening.

However, I will offer free spelling lessons on my next date. 

 

My child is a brat.

Recently I have found that I have become one of THOSE mothers...

Description of THOSE:

A Mother who shouts at her child outside the school gates, in the supermarket, in Mc Donald's, etc. the sound often being referred to a 'banshee.' 

I am said banshee. 

Yesterday at school pick up time went like this...

I hadn't seen Scarlett since Tuesday morning and it was now Friday. I collected her from her class carrying her beloved Frozen scooter. 

Scarlett: 'Put my scooter down.' 

Me: 'Hello Scarlett, how has your week been? Tell me about your day at the farm on Wednesday, then you can have your scooter.'

Scarlett: 'No, put my scooter down.' 

Me: 'Name an animal you saw and then you can have your scooter.' 

Scarlett: 'Put my scooter down NOW!'

We had not even made it out of the school gates...

Me: 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU ARE BEING A BRAT!'

I gave her the scooter as the other parents were staring.  

A bit further down the road she gave me her scooter so she could walk on a wall. At the end of the wall she jumped off...

Scarlett: 'Put my scooter down.'

Me: 'Say please.'

Scarlett: 'No.' 

Me: 'No scooter until you say please.'

Scarlett: 'No.' 

Me: 'Ok.' And I started to walk off. 

Scarlett burst into tears and wouldn't move. Kids seem to have superhuman strength when they don't want to do something and she was rooted to the spot when I tried to get her to walk. 

I was beyond embarrassed as people were walking past but I felt I had to be strong and not give in (which I'm rubbish at doing as I think she will remember these moments and throw them back in my face later on in life) she cried and sobbed then said the magic word...

'Please.' 

I gave her the scooter, she followed meekly behind, then 10 minutes later she was sweetness and light. 

Today I have had constant hugs and kisses and no misbehaving so obviously standing up to my brat worked (or was it the 2 ice creams I have her?!) 

So the next time I see I fellow banshee, I will be urging them to stay strong and if you see me being the banshee, I'm winning- trust me (and the ice creams.) 

Belle, Belle, Belle and the runaway lie.

Meet Belle Gibson who was an inspiration with an army of followers...

WAS an inspiration. 

She had a recipe book 'The whole Pantry' and an app with which she shouted to the world...

'I have cancer but, I'm kicking it's butt!' 

Over the past few days the world has watched in shock as her layers have been peeled back and we have been hit with the ugly truth about the beautiful fantasist Belle and her runaway lie. 

According to reports, in 2009 Belle had been told by doctors that she had brain cancer:

'You're dying. You have six weeks, four months tops.'

It is unimaginable how anyone could possibly feel when hearing a statement such as the above, but imagine, Belle did.

She claimed she was not going to follow conventional treatments but instead use holistic treatments and changed her diet to be gluten-free and refunded sugar-free. 

On her Instagram blog @healing_belle in 2013 she said she was going to continue healing herself 'naturally.' 

Well, it seemed to be working as 4 years previously she only had a maximum of 4 months. This woman was clearly defying the odds and so her army of fans continued to grow.

Belle later claimed that the cancer had spread to her blood, spleen, uterus and liver and she did not expect to survive, which was heartbreaking for her fans.   

However, last month her story began to unravel. Charities which were supposed to have recieved $300,000 from her had yet to see a penny and no medical evidence had ever been seen to back up her claims that she had a terminal illness.  

The timeline of events is a bit confusing but somewhere along the line Belle revealed that her cancer of the blood, spleen, uterus and liver had been 'wrongly' diagnosed by a German magnetic therapist.

Belle's book 'The whole pantry' and her app was pulled, she made her Instagram profile private and the world was banging on her door for answers.  

This week we have got them...sort of. 

Belle gave an interview to Woman's Weekly and said: 

'I am still jumping between what I think I know and what is reality.' 

While having not read the whole interview myself as only parts have been published online, Belle is certainly feeling the backlash from her army who have turned on their leader, though she has said:

'I don't want forgiveness.' 

There are a lot of people making a lot of awful comments towards her but shouldn't we all step back and take a breath?  

I'm not saying what she did was right but what started out as a small lie, escalated and before she knew it she had a book deal, an app and attention. Publishers had shoved her into the spotlight and she must have frozen and realised she couldn't admit the truth, so had to go along with the lie.   

I understand that she had dedicated followers who will be beyond devastated and hurt as some of her followers are not just fans but are genuinely ill, but to a certain extent is Belle herself not ill too? 

To make something of this magnitude up she must have issues, not a touch on people who are living with terminal illnesses but issues that she needs help with nonetheless. 

She also has an innocent child who will feel the backlash of his Mothers deceit but she needs to speak with him privately with her partner to figure out what they need to do going forward to protect him from this circus. 

Hate is a strong word which is being thrown at Belle but to be disappointed in someone hits far harder. 

I'm sick of reading hurtful comments so I'm taking a stand...stop the hate. Let's be disappointed in Belle instead. 

Let's be disappointed and hope that she gets the help that she actually needs and remember that all is not what it seems in this life and sometimes you have to take things with a pinch of salt.