Month: April 2026

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Mom-shaming takes so, so many forms.

Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis, is currently a single mom.

She knows that it’s hard. The “advice” from strangers on social media isn’t helping.

Right now, she’s clapping back at them, sharing a video as she breastfeeds her almost-3-year-old.

She’s had enough of the judgment

On Saturday, April 4, Rumer took to Instagram to make a point using a video.

The short clip included her daughter, Louetta — or “Lou” — who will turn 3 years old on April 18.

Just two weeks ahead of that birthday, Rumer was breastfeeding her preschool-aged kid.

She is fully aware that deciding to breastfeed her child at this age is controversial.

That’s pretty much why she made the post, as you can see.

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“When someone starts judging my parenting,” Rumer wrote in text over the clip.

That’s when the video changes — swapping to a TikTok clip in which a woman very pointedly highlights a venn diagram of “your business” and “my business.”

The circles do not intersect in the least.

Point taken.

“Sorry not sorry,” Rumer captioned the video as she shared it to Instagram.

The most visible commenters did NOT care for her tone

However they phrased it, commenter after commenters on Instagram told her the same message.

(The above screenshot is only a sample, not a complete list.)

Essentially, many of them told Rumer that, by posting aspects of her life on social media, she is just asking for this “feedback.”

That’s complex.

Certainly, anyone posting anything to social media knows that they may receive hostile replies. But … there’s more to it than that.

Yes, anyone posting to social media knows that they will receive a ton of “opinions” and unexpectedly hostile reactions, no matter how innocuous the posts.

But that doesn’t mean that it’s their fault, or that they are inviting these reactions.

Sometimes, parents post generally dangerous things — like a crib full of stuffed animals. They may believe that these are fine or harmless, but they’re suffocation hazards and people are right to call them out.

Other times, mom-shamers blast a parent for literally just loving their kid or otherwise being normal. There are a lot of people who want to project their childhood trauma onto other families and “pay it forward” in the most toxic ways imaginable.

So, where does Rumer fall on this spectrum? Who’s wrong?

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So … who’s right?

A 3-year-old (Rumer posted that just two weeks before Lou’s third birthday) feels very old to be breastfeeding.

However, even though most parents often start tapering off of breastfeeding after a child’s first birthday, many medical organizations encourage longer breastfeeding periods — until after a child turns two.

Often, the understandable fear is that a child may fail to bond socially with other kids if they’re dependent upon breastfeeding (and thus may struggle with things like preschool and playdates).

And, of course, there is the anxiety of children growing up with clear memories of breastfeeding and feeling weird about it.

However people feel about Rumer’s choices, their comments aren’t doing any good. They need to understand that — which is the point, it seems, of her defiant posts.

That said … is she doing Lou any favors by immortalizing her breastfeeding timeline on social media?

Rumer Willis Claps Back at Mom-Shamers, Breastfeeds (Almost) 3-Year-Old was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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In the three weeks since ABC canceled her season of The Bachelorette, Taylor Frankie Paul has mostly kept her feelings to herself.

But the embattled reality star opened up like never before on Instagram over the weekend.

In a series of posts and Stories, Taylor bared her soul on Easter Sunday, revealing, among other things, that she is no longer a practicing Mormon.

Paul kicked things off with a video montage of selfies, Bible verses, and encouraging text messages she’d received from friends and family.

“The last 40 days felt like hell on earth. Through every panic attack I prayed for strength as I could feel my body breaking down and out from the distress of it all,” she captioned one post, adding:

“And HE sent just that in various ways along with so many undeniable signs saying ‘I am with you’ which I can’t wait to share that part.

“I’ve prayed since I was young and never strayed away because I believe he wants us to ask for help especially during our lowest points. However, instead of just asking I switched over to thanking him at the end of each day no matter how low I felt.

“He has risen and he is real. I got chills today when I realized it’s been 40 days exactly today in this frantic state,” she concluded.

Clearly, Taylor was in a spiritual mood.

But shortly thereafter, she shared in an Instagram Story that she had decided to “detach” from the Mormon Church.

“I’ll always have love and respect toward it,” she wrote in a lengthy message.

“I’ll even continue to go with my family at times. With that being said, it’s time to detach myself from it,” Paul continued, adding:

“I strongly believe in Christ, God, the Bible, the divine. I believe we are loved whether we are praying in the church building from a bathroom floor at home.”

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She concluded, “I’ve also experienced grace and love from amazing people that aren’t sure what they believe at all and that’s okay. Point being there is more out there to learn.”

Taylor seems to be in a pretty good place at the moment.

But she also made it clear that that’s a very new state of affairs.

“I’ve never felt the pain I’m in now,” she wrote in one of the text messages from her montage.

“I cannot breathe. I’m sad, so sad and in so much PAIN. I can’t wait to help those in this.”

In a different message, she told the recipient that she was in the midst of a panic attack.

It makes sense that Taylor has been having a hard time lately. In addition to being fired by ABC, she’s reportedly being investigated for additional domestic violence complaints.

But at least she can take comfort in the fact that she has a strong support network and a whole army of fans cheering her on.

Taylor Frankie Paul Says She’s Left the Mormon Church, Complains of Panic Attacks … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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