Blossomingbirds

[Eyerolling]

Funny encounter of sorts with BB recently, as I’ve said before, we live in the same town and our kids go to the same school. This was a couple of months ago. As I was queuing to park to collect my kids she was crossing the road with hers, she was grinning like a lunatic and looking all round her in front of me as I waited at the pedestrian crossing, so she was crossing the road directly in front of my car, I assumed she was really intensely smiling at someone she knew or a relative or something, but quickly realised she wasn’t - she was totally on her own, she was smiling and looking all around her to see if anyone was looking at her/recognising her, totally ignoring her kids, flicking her hair and pushing her stomach out/rubbing her belly in a really over the top way to attract attention - no one looked near her and the place was absolutely mad with other mums and dads, grandparents etc. she seemed so desperate for someone to look at her and was dressed like a Boden catalogue model when everyone else was in leggings/tracksuit bottoms, yet no one have her one second of attention. To me this just explained why she is so OTT about her “perfect life” on instagram because on a day to day basis, no one even notices her, everyone else was far too interested in their children/their routine to stop and worship
her

So funny! Doesn’t surprise me. I also saw her at the same school, looking rough, frazzled and trying to hide one morning, but she must have rushed home to do hair, makeup and change of clothes, as half an hour later she was on stories all breezy and smiley

 

[Jellytot3]

Nothing to see here...just Anna 'throwing on a cake'...as you do. #wingingit. So relatable.... half of us are lucky to get our hair washed twice a week never mind 'throwing on a cake'. Oh but look, it didn't work out as the gurrrls ruined it *insert 'winging it' caption'.

 

[Newbie]

Anna, you used to work for Tesco. Do you really think we're stupid enough to believe your false advertisement?! God this woman has no shame.

 

[thelittleprincess]

There was an ad free day or two and I thought she had wised up, as ads and affiliate links during this time are pretty low. But oh no, the donating breast milk stories was just setting us up for the breast pump ads. And the baking stories was just for more content today.
I actually find it horrible that these influencers can’t just do something for charity and not mention it. It always has to be for show and for their own gain.

Its awful - she only donated milk to tie in with an ad she was paid to do and her followers lap it up! She can’t be anything like she portrays.
Everything. Is. An. Ad.
I’ve said it before, it’s so cringe her husband comments on all the ads ‘well done I’m proud of you’ typed whist probably in the same room.

 

[Incredulous]

She gets on like she doesn’t care about fitness with the aul running after kids line but my brother’s friend’s wife goes to the same gym and she’s had a personal trainer since not long after having the baby, but that’s not been mentioned for some reason. Don’t know why?

 

[Dippy dolly]

Just had to comment.

 

[Dippy dolly]

Just had to comment.
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And apparently she did pay for it, every penny and now she's hinting for another mama one for Mother's Day - oh dear god, they really are thick or just covering their arses, aren't they? There really is no point in trying to make the idiots see sense.

 

[Newbie]

As fake as they come too...

Anna, you've showed this hand off 1000 times with whatever free jewellery you've been given. Don't try and comment and say that you're asking for a mama one on your friends business page, when you're the one pictured wearing it in their feed!

 

[Incredulous]

I thought she had a huge stash in the freezer that she always talks about, so why would she need Colin to buy milk or was that to just act the martyr for the premature baby bank? She’s all about the virtue signalling. Breastfeeding is normal it doesn’t make her any better a mother, doesn’t matter even if it’s 19 months, she would be more respected as a mother if she didn’t sell her daughters souls for cash.

 

[KerChing]

An ad...about a doggy camera so we can watch our dogs when we are out...during quarantine...when we arent allowed out... good timing there Anna!

You couldn’t make this shit up!

 

[Cooriedoon]

Her pictures pop up on my Instagram recommended from time to time and I have nosied since long before Martha and the move. I don’t mean to be rude but she just comes across as arrogant. And her husband used to do those crude hashtags, no offence mate but no one else wants to bed your wife. She looks like a prude.

Anyway that was off topic, doesn’t she run some kind of business for teaching people about Instagram (Iv generalised that ). Just noticed this morning that She gets around 1-2k likes per photo, when she has 70k followers! That is absolutely abysmal!

 

[Hollynotlightly]

Just look at everything that is tagged in this supposed 'candid shot'.... so see through! She says in the midst of her 'juggling it all' she hasnt been able to get any of her work done.. well hows about stop fucking about in the garden and buying chickens and maybe you will have time. All for show! Nothing organic or real about her!

Reading through the replies to that post, a poster replied to say she was still feeding her 6 year old and her 2 year old. Her page is public and filled with pictures of her feeding them, even one where she is feeding both at one time and it is tagged #Tandembreastfeeding. Why do these have be on a public profile instead of setting it to private. Once a picture is on Instagram it can be screenshot and the owner has lost all control of it. Sadly they don’t end up in the safest of hands. Why do people do this ? Why would you let images of your children be put at risk like this? I just don’t get it. Surely there needs to be clearer guidelines made in regard to the rights of privacy of children and what their parents can post on the internet. Sadly that is where we are at.

 

[Bgr101]

And Laura Ann puts up the same #ad, neither of which would persuade me to make a purchase. Sorry ladies but I can calculate my own ingredients, it's not actually that difficult!

They arent worth the money these boxes and i just think any company asking bloggers to do ads during this time dont deserve our custom.

 

[Eyerolling]

I’m too nosey and after a lot of scrolling I found the listing for her old house. £185K. Can’t find if it actually sold for more or less though.
Def money to be made but it’s not sustainable. She def wants the stay at home lifestyle although she has set up her other business too. The way his friends were putting it was that he was feeling the pressure of paying the bills. He’s scaled back his attempts at ads, he was definitely getting a ribbing about that McDonalds ad. That was so bad

I think she is getting less popular with people round here because local people know that a lot of it is false.

I think the original point was that there is money to be made but it’s not anymore than any other decent job. Good money to be made if you want to sell your children.

(Now I’m nearly two bottles of wine down, on an estate agent site looking at houses prices and tempting myself to put a bid on a house )

 

[DevaVictrix]

She is getting more ridiculous by the day. I actually used to like her when she really was juggling a lot, when she had a FT demanding job, young kids and did extended breastfeeding, as I was doing all that too. But now she is so unrelatable, she's a SAHM,
with a good disposable income it seems, with no doubt family help, and slave Colin on tap. The whole 'winging it' act needs to stop. She wings nothing, everything is carefully curated and planned to a tee.

She had a story or a post up during the week which was a pic of her clean kitchen. She said the girls had spilt something sticky twice in a row. But she put up the 'after' photo. That just summed her up for me. Most of the mummy/family bloggers would have posted the photo of the mess on the floor as well. She never shows the reality of family life, just the aesthetically pleasing bits while trying to make out she's just like us, but all the time there's an air of 'I'm better than you all'.

I really detest every single thing about her.

 

[Fourwires]

I wonder, with the majority of people unable to sustain the rampant consumerism of late, will most influencers be out of work? Ads on insta are literally the bottom of the pile right now

 

[Eyerolling]

I always think this about those incredibly curated accounts, blossomingbirds, littlewoodlife, hunters and heels... I would love to be invisible and follow them around for the day. Behind their sickly sweet online personas you just know they are dragons behind the scenes. People that are laid back by nature don’t strive to present their lives in such a perfect fashion (which a self deprecating caption here and there to let them off the hook from their ridiculously over styled kids playroom photo).

This 100%

I think BB annoys me the most as she is local to me and I know it is all fake, yet a lot of people around me are sucked in by the ads and stories, and feel not good enough. They can’t see she is all smoke and mirrors, the right angles, carefully monitoring what she posts, and living beyond her means. She is no better/different than anyone else, and I know this for fact, so it grates to hear people I know mentioning her when comparing themselves/their lives/their house etc

 

[Wheretonext]

She has too much time on her hands. Can someone please tell me how a mother with a small baby and 2 young girls can manage to make these videos. Even down to the editing and the “fading out” detail. Not only that, but then makes a video of her making the video. She’s obviously not as tentative to her kids as her videos make her out to be. She’s really starting to bug the shit out of me.
Oh... I should add to the above, ‘all of which is done with a full face of make up and straightened hair.

 

[Hollynotlightly]

I have just read that a You Tube star has rehomed her adopted autistic child. This is utterly heartbreaking. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-52839792
Using children to reach the heights of social media stardom and fund a lifestyle - it is disgusting. #letkidsbekidsnotcontent

 

[Wheretonext]

Did anyone see Anna’s post this evening? Im
Actually shocked. She breastfeeds. Wow... this is brand new information. What an inspiring piece of work she is. 3rd child in and she’s reading baby weaning books. What could have changed since her other 2?