Mum shaming still in Vogue

Model Vogue Williams has announced that she and husband, Made in Chelsea star and royal in-law Spencer Matthews, are hoping to have a second child, a sibling for five-month old baby Theodore. Vogue is honest about pregnancy, birth and motherhood, and stating her intention to stop breastfeeding said: “After nine months of pregnancy and six months of breastfeeding, I want to feel like myself again for a while before I get pregnant again.” Vogue has already discovered, the hard way, that breastfeeding is a contentious issue, explaining that she’d been subject to much criticism — a lot of it contradictory. “As a mum, the last thing you need is to be parent-shamed. Negative comments do affect you.” Poor Vogue. She probably thinks things will be different with baby number two. And she would be wrong. Random strangers hectoring women about their ‘mistakes’ in childrearing — mummy shaming — has been in vogue for as long as women have been giving birth.