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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Charlotte Cripps

Don’t blame mothers for performative parenting – blame the internet

Sophie Habboo posing by her festive table three weeks after giving birth - (Instagram/@jamielaing)

Jamie Laing has been criticised online for an insensitive Christmas post that sets “unrealistic expectations” for new mothers after the former Made in Chelsea star said his “superwoman” wife, Sophie Habboo, had created “a magical Christmas” just three weeks after giving birth.

In an Instagram video set to Kelly Clarkson’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Laing’s podcaster wife, Habboo, who gave birth to the couple’s son, Ziggy, earlier this month, is seen doing a little jig beside their perfectly decorated festive table and looking proud at what she’s pulled off.

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