Kiera-Rose

[Gym&Tonic]

I’ve been watching Kiera for several years and I don’t think she’s ever had a job in that time. Has she ever worked does anyone know? I remember one video a while back where she mentioned she and Alex had to go to a foodbank because they had no money and were really struggling, this was way before they were even married, but even then she seemed to have no incentive to go out and work. I find it hard to believe she would be claiming pip for anxiety alone as it’s really difficult to get nowadays, you have to jump through hoops and I know people with appalling chronic health conditions who’ve been turned down for it.

Her world has always been very narrow and she doesn’t socialize or do much with anyone other than Alex, her parents and in laws. Even pre Covid they didn’t do very much, rarely travelled anywhere etc. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but speaking from personal experience this really isn’t good for your mental health, she seems very isolated and that will only get worse now she has a baby.

 

[AfroCircus]

So many red flags with this girl. She keeps sharing posts form an anti-vaxxer who thinks suncream causes skin cancer.

 

[Tom_Nook]

I'm not sure why I'm still subscribed at this point. That vlog wasn't interesting to me at all. I know I'm meant to think it was sweet but the singing was a bit odd/ cringey. Maybe I'm just awful. I'm probably awful.

 

[Abcxyz]

As much as it’s true that you can never be truly ready for a baby/second baby, it’s also true that you shouldn’t irresponsibly bring a second child into the world when your life is in as much upheaval/chaos as she has described. It comes across as quite selfish actually.

 

[Teawithnosugar]

What’s with same sex parenthood? Who has the „fatherly instinct“ in a lesbian relationship? What even is „fatherly instinct“? That’s such a hetero- and cis-normative thing to say.
Just because you don’t remember her saying that, doesn’t mean, she didn’t say it.

Just because same sex parents exist, are we now supposed to deny fatherly instinct in a traditional hetero family, and same for motherly instinct? I support LGBTQ community, but this is just too woke and blown out of proportion.

 

[CapnPancakes]

I don’t get it, what’s wrong with the post?

 

[Teawithnosugar]

I like Kiera, but that just seems like a very convenient excuse and is slightly ridiculous. The hairdresser will now have a gap in their appointments and this is a bit of a short notice. Could she not have woken Lana up earlier?

 

[blossombloss]

Just seen on her stories she's planning on homeschooling. So she's planning on Little Doe still being profitable for a while then, even though its already the sort of stuff you can get all over etsy... lot of pressure on Alex being the stable breadwinner for another 15+ years depending on how many kids they have... i understand homeschooling if you are loaded or have something like rental income from a 2nd property that will always be coming in or you have a child with additional educational needs who just cant cope in mainstream but they've always been up/down with money/jobs as it is...

It's like she just wants to isolate herself from the world. She's hardly the most social person and I can see that just making her child life so small! Not to mention the actual job of teaching is so stressful, I feel like she would find it so overwhelming!! But you can't just decide you're not feeling up to teaching all the time.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I‘ve watched the video. The reason she’s spending so much time at her mums is because they’ve had problems with one of their neighbours and there‘s an ongoing police investigation into it. She obviously can’t go into it properly if there is police involvement. Lana had to go to A&E recently but she didn’t elaborate on that either, just said that it was traumatic. Lana is also being as for autism, She is still together with Alex but he has been struggling with his mental health and thats presumably why we’ve not see him for a long time.

 

[xits_jjx]

Routine is something all humans need, and it seems to me like there’s a lack of it in their lives and will be a lack of it in Lana’s life.

Nobody likes working, but, getting up at 4am and coming home at 5pm every day gives me routine. Someone else doing a 9-3, or someone doing an 8-5 have the same experience as I: routine.

Them both being virtually unemployed and Kiera no longer really making videos and giving up on getting her Instagram account back means they’ve lost a source of income and a source of routine.

I don’t like my job, I hate working, but I know that if I didn’t do my job I’d lose my routine and then lose my mental health in the process. Even the richest people have some form of routine; I think Kiera could easily do a part time job even with breast feeding, she could express it or she could ask her employer to accommodate her hours to suit.

The issue is that they both sound like they have poor mental health and have lost motivation to do anything besides frollock about and take care of Lana. I don’t think it’s a good long-term lifestyle that they’ve been living. I don’t understand why people closer to them haven’t said anything.

 

[tsuyu]

Her answer to the question about her relationship with Alex didn’t sound good.. They don’t sleep in the same room anymore so she can sleep with the baby and they’re happy to keep that going? She clearly doesn’t let him help and resents him for it. I’m sure lockdown hasn’t helped, it just seems so sad.

She’s also jealous he has more time than her and doesn’t have to rush his showers she doesn’t have to rush hers either, if she let him have a chance with the baby

 

[eilidhh]

I like Kiera, but that just seems like a very convenient excuse and is slightly ridiculous. The hairdresser will now have a gap in their appointments and this is a bit of a short notice. Could she not have woken Lana up earlier?

Does Alex have a job yet, because if not she could do this totally whacky and dangerous thing of....leaving the baby with her father for an hour....???

 

[Sprezza]

I find Alex very useless and she is an enabler. It's very frustrating to watch.
Mental illness sucks, a lot! He obviously has 0hysical illness too BUT Last thing he needs is someone enabling it and not allowing him to even try and succeed at anything, he'salready just "there", not providing anything to the household. She's gone mum to baby and mum to him also and it feels like she's the one pushing this. I wonder if she cuts up his good for him also, because I bet he doesn't do that the right way either.
I'm glad she let him hold his child now and again.

Personal opinions, not a rave thread, don't come for me

Wait what do you mean? Isn't he the breadwinner and just got a new job? If anything I would have said Alex was enabling Kiera to be dependent on him and their family and isolate herself from the world.

she’s on the path to giving her daughter some separation/anxiety issues, surely? Co-sleeping, home schooling… each to their own (as long as the child is not in danger) but surely it’d be healthier for there to be some independence somewhere along the line?

Being homeschooled doesn't mean the kid has no independence (not saying you were implying that but as a former homeschooled kid I get annoyed by certain stereotypes haha) I think as Lana gets older she'll ease up a bit, at least I hope. It's obviously been difficult during covid as well to take her anywhere and socialise her.
At least if she has more kids like she wants then she can't be constantly attached to all of them all of the time and they'll get a bit more freedom.

 

[Sprezza]

I reckon another baby is on the cards soon, she said something in a story recently (I can’t remember specifically) that heavily implied she’ll be having another in the next year. Something about breastfeeding Lana then straight onto to the next baby or co-feeding or something. Whatever that is.

A gripe I have is that she’s entirely an internet mummy on her social media now, but which I specifically remember her saying she wouldn’t like to become. So for someone like me who has zero interest in kids, she’s irrelevant now.

She's kind of giving the worst of both worlds now. For people who like kids and want to follow a mummy vlogger, it's kind of necessary to show the kids' faces and film more of your daily life with them, which (understandably) she doesn't want to do. But she isn't offering any of her old content either to people who aren't interested in kids. All she does is share her thoughts and feelings about motherhood, which mostly consists of breastfeeding without offering her audience an inside glimpse into her life, which I imagine is equally boring to everyone.

 

[AfroCircus]

Does every single interaction she has with Lana need to be about her breasts?

 

[paris]

She’s a great photographer. If she focused on that instead of the shop or YouTube I feel like she’d be really successful. Also maybe a little easier to do around the baby?

 

[Lemonz]

I've unfollowed and unsubscribed. I've been a subscriber since the Scarlet Saint days, but I just can't relate to her any more.

Breast feeding isn't a personality trait. I agree that we should normalise it and that people shouldn't be ashamed of breast feeding, but it seems to be all she talks about, 'baby' and 'boobie'.

I know a lot of things have changed due to covid etc and it's such bad timing for Alex to have lost his job, I can't imagine the pressure of being the only person in the household bringing an income in. But the way they've handled it also seems a bit odd. It isn't for me to say whether she is able to work in a 'normal' job due to her mental health issues and I understand that a lot of people can't, and that's fine. However she could have been working on content, or Little Doe or promoting her Patreon while Alex is out of work and able to help with their daughter, surely?

I remember several years ago when she setup a gofundme, or something similar, to get a new laptop or something because her old one broke. Around that time they both went to get new tattoos. I'm not someone to ever think that less well off people shouldn't have nice things, but it just seemed very strange to splurge on something so non essential then say they can't afford a laptop for her to essentially do her job. They always go to decent artists and good tattoos can be a few hundred quid. So to also ask subscribers to donate for a laptop just seemed really off.....

Agree - the breastfeeding stuff seems to be in part due to her trying to justify why she cant possibly get a minute away from her or why she cant possibly do anything else. Look we get it, its hard to be away from your baby and everyone does things at their own pace. But he's the babies dad!
And yes, the way they handle money/work etc is very odd, like it must be ghard but it seems mad to me that she wouldnt open Little Doe up because she was worried she couldnt keep up with the demand when Alex was unemployed and at home - he could have been working on Little Doe, or taking the baby whilst she did! There are so many hours in the day and if you're staring down the no money route you kinda just crack on.

I do wonder if they have been propped up a bit by family etc in the past, hence the lack of motivation towards work, but this time round they've found it a lot harder because of baby - when she spoke about it in the video she seemed like she was panicking a bit but not enough for her to actually do any work herself, i've seen it with certain people before, they realise its not good and do a bit of panicking but in the back of their mind they think well we've always got xxx money to lean on... so talk the talk of worrying (so to appease those around them who probably get frustrated) but dont really put any more effort in than they'd normally do anyway....

 

[beans01]

I feel for them both, but They also strike me as lazy. Whilst I do agree they are going through a lot, they don’t help themselves either.

 

[CapnPancakes]

I reckon another baby is on the cards soon, she said something in a story recently (I can’t remember specifically) that heavily implied she’ll be having another in the next year. Something about breastfeeding Lana then straight onto to the next baby or co-feeding or something. Whatever that is.

A gripe I have is that she’s entirely an internet mummy on her social media now, but which I specifically remember her saying she wouldn’t like to become. So for someone like me who has zero interest in kids, she’s irrelevant now.

 

[Lemonz]

This is going to sound really awful but she IS out of touch... on the Little Doe point. There's a billion etsy sellers who sell the same kind of plastic charms joined together, she seriously thinks demand would be so high she'd be unable to keep up? If she stuck to the tshirts and prints she'd make decent money though as they were really nice and the demand is there. Seems really weird to just... not do that though? She could sell limited runs of tshirts and it would be less stressful than YT.