A mum has slammed Kim Kardashian’s remarks that she is empowering women, saying she poorly represents women and the average mum.
Please Stop.
This is what mother-of-three, Tova Leigh, from London wrote in her blog, in an open letter to Kim, who reckons she is ‘all about empowering women’ and that she was ‘not like one of those ‘mom moms’.
Inspired by a recent episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians where Kim shows the behind-the-scenes of her cameo in Fergie’s MILF $ (MILF Money) music video, Ms Leigh hit back at the TV reality star’s comments.
“Without getting too much into what I think about Fergie’s music video, (I have never seen such a misrepresentation of moms in my whole life), I have a little request from you Kim:
“Please stop.
“When you said ‘mom mom’ I can only imagine that what you meant was the ‘average mom’.
“A mom like me who works hard, raises her kids to the best of her ability and who just can’t see the point in prancing around in stilettos if she doesn’t really have to,” she said.
Ms Leigh’s open letter mentions how the average mum “can’t exercise five times a week” and “doesn’t have the time to cook ‘organic wild salmon and kale’ for dinner.” She also pointed out that not every mother can get a nanny, afford cosmetic treatments or go on lavish vacations like Kim herself.
“Some days she feels like s**t, some days she feels like a winner. Some days she just eats ice cream. She worries, she gets on with life, she is being real,” she said.
Yet, Ms Leigh clarified that she wasn’t body shaming her.
“All I am trying to say is that, as an ‘average mom’ (a ‘mom mom’ as you called it), I want you to stop thinking you empower women. Because you don’t,” she said.
Ms Leigh then suggested to Kim a few things to empower women.
“Next time you take a selfie, don’t hold the camera in that high angle that makes your waist look even smaller than it already is. You don’t need it and we don’t need to think you are THAT fit. Make sure you don’t have any make up on so we can see that you are not perfect.
“But most importantly, tell us about how your kids kept you up all night or how they threw a tantrum at the supermarket. Show how messy your house looks before the cleaner arrives and tell the millions of average moms like me that it’s okay not to have it together all the time and that even the great Kim K loses her sh*t sometimes.”
She ends her letter by asking Kim to show sensitivity towards other mothers struggling to lose weight after having kids and gain back their self-confidence.
Her blog post has now become viral as mums from all over the world reacted on her post expressing their support for her.
One mother wrote: “Absolutely couldn’t love this more if I tried and said perfectly by you for all the real moms out there. Thank you.”
Another said: “I completely agree, I love KUWTK it’s my guilty pleasure and they are all stunning! But this part made me feel inadequate which was upsetting.”
Source: Dailymail.co.uk