Imagine if the old friend story was real and it happened as Mel suggests. You hear from your old friend, she asks how you’re doing, you pour your heart out. Probably feel better but a bit embarrassed, after all you haven’t hear from that friend for years. Then you check out Instagram on Mother’s Day and see that message.
Hahah, right? Did Melanie ask this friend for permission to talk about them to her followers like this, even if it's anonymous? This story sounds so fake purely because I can't imagine someone actually taking the private info their friend shared in a vent and turning it into instagram content. Accompanied with a little direct quote and everything. You'd have to be crazy shameless to not feel awkward at the idea of said friend finding the post. And not care much about keeping the friendship.
It also sounds fake, or at least HIGHLY embellished, because of the "she said she's struggling because she's finding that her mother's intuition doesn't align with the EVIL Western norms being pushed on her". Like, really? This woman who just had a baby, who is all kinds of overwhelmed and emotionally and physically struggling, like she said, was in the mood to have a conversation about how hard it is to deal "Western" ideas about childrearing? She's been a mother for barely any time, but already agrees completely with this weird pseudo-political idea Melanie won't stop talking about ever? How nice.
She's such a weird liar. Like how does she not see that this doesn't come across as at all believable. It just looks like she didn't want to make yet another post about herself saying the same thing as always so she decided to go with a "this time my FRIEND said it".