Love Island star Camilla Thurlow has hit back at a troll who called her 'classless' after she shared a photo of herself breastfeeding her baby daughter in her car. The 33-year-old mum-of-two, who starred in the third series of the ITV2 reality contest in 2017, says she originally posted the snap to show the 'multi-tasking' involved in parenting and not just the 'perfect moments.'
Camilla, who was feeding her two-month-old daughter Nora Bell in the picture, explained in a lengthy post: "I shared this on my stories earlier and someone sent me a message saying how ‘classless’ it was.
"It’s easy to end up sharing the highlights of parenting on here, but between the pretty reels are many moments, like this, that are part of the reality. Like feeding in carparks, or pumping in bathroom stalls or using the five minutes you had for a cuppa to sterilise bottles.
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"There are the days when you leave an hour early (despite getting no sleep) to try and time feeds right so your baby is settled for a meeting. Or stay up late when you’re utterly exhausted to wash your pump parts before work tomorrow, or try to screw a bottle top on one-handed whilst rocking a pram so you don’t disturb anyone."
She continued: "There’s constant planning, and prepping and admin that you do to try and make things work for everyone (usually while trying to make it look easy at the same time), and then there’s enduring the critical looks when inevitably one day it doesn’t quite go as smoothly as planned despite all the effort you’ve put in.
"I put that story up thinking there would be so many parents in a similar position today - feeding their baby, multi-tasking and making things work - because that’s the reality and it’s important to share that and not just the perfect moments."
Camilla urged anyone offended by the sight of a baby being fed to 'grow up', adding: "And tbh I think if you don’t like seeing a baby being fed - either by bottle or breast, whether in real life or on here - you need to grow up, because we don’t need the added job of trying to work around you too. Let’s leave the business of behaving like a baby to the babies."
Camilla welcomed Nora Belle in May with her husband Jamie Jewitt, who she met and fell for on Love Island. The couple, who married last year, are also parents to daughter Nell Sophia born in October 2020.
As Camilla was flooded with support Jamie commented on the post: "The irony is you used the word classless to describe Cam's behaviour." jenniexsunshine told him: "@jamiejewitt_ love this response! Cam is making mum life real and relatable. The reality of how it is xx" And natasha.emilia77 commented: "Classless ???? You're feeding a human being, your child, your life… seriously people need to get a grip, and it’s been said over and over again and again but here goes, if you can be anything 'be kind.' And if you can’t do that, “do one."
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