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coldasice

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Actually people turning around and "just not wanting to" isnt fine. If everyone decided not to breastfeed because they don't fancy it there would be some serious ramifications for the health of future generations and cost to the NHS. If able to, breastfeeding is best for babies and we need to change our mentality towards the whole situation. Everyone who can breastfeed should give it a go where possible. We have one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world and the last thing that's needed is any promotions of formula what so ever especially from influencers.
Oh fucks sake here we go.
 
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motherofdonkeys

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I think she’s being quite cruel to all her Hinchers, she’s spent months whipping them into a cleaning frenzy, they idolise her and she’s constantly saying how much they mean to her, and yet, right now, all they are getting is vague hints, teasing and unnecessary additional drama because she’s only telling half a story.
 
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KawaiiAF

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To the person who predicted the Hinch would not breast feed months ago & got horribly lambasted for even suggesting it ... 👏
 
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bellaburgundia

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I couldn't so would of said can't.
Sick of the breastfeeding discussion. I didn't want to. I was pregnant with an eating disorder, haven't looked at myself naked for over 20 years, can't get my tit out. My kids are fine adults. So shoot me. She's a twat, nothing to do with breastfeeding/bottle feeding, she's just a twat for ripping off the demographic she shamelessly targets.
 
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Bubu

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The babies not even here yet and it’s already turned into mumsnet on here 😩 back to lurking I go
 
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Loulamoooola

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I’m patiently waiting for the story...
“Oh my Hinchers! You see, there I was minding my own business swinging in my eggy chair (don’t like eggy plugs mind you) with a bowl of those lucky charms (obviously they were not lucky at the time), when BAM! Got a splinter”
Que 50000000 screenshots of people wishing her a speedy recovery and requesting a swipe up so that they can get their own splinter.
 
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KawaiiAF

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Nobody can eat and live the way she does without having shocking health. Enough people have told her. She's had more health warnings than most, yet she changes nothing unless absolutely forced to as her body gives up. They patch her up but she doesn't change or even educate herself even a little on her return home! She doesn't google anything or hire a specialist, she just carries on blindly doing the same old things. Then she has the audacity to complain and want sympathy when she 's almost constantly sick!

Anyone wondering what I'm talking about:

She doesn't eat properly. Young children eat better than she does. She should be having lots of leafy greens, veggies, salads and fruits daily. Green smoothies packed with kale, spinach (in moderation) fruits to get her Iron. She should be eating the colours of the rainbow to heal her system.

Instead she lives off cheese, processed crap, crisps, sugar, slimfast, and anything rammed with bad sweeteners and banned chemicals. Her last 2 meals before being rushed to hospital were a banned cereal in the Uk, that she got from Ireland on her book tour. And had the audacity to advertise to her Hinchers many times!! It's full of disgusting colours and it says genetically modified on the packet. She also loves the 33p cheese mugs from home bargains, again full of chemicals (there's no actual cheese in them, just cheese 'flavour' aka chemical!). Our bodies are made up of our food, so her body is made of chemicals and rubbish. When she does finally make something, she uses a whole bottle of sugary syrup where most would use it as a dip, that contains glucose fructose syrup (avoid it like the plague)

Then we start on the chemicals, smh. She loves to immerse her skin in her cleaning products (only the last few months she wears gloves for some of it as she sells them. She said last year she likes her skin to smell of cleaning chemicals) Our skin is our biggest organ, and absorbs. Her kidneys and liver will be dealing with all kinds of chemical stuff that's so dangerous I don't even want to list the issues!

Next, there's the scents in the air. Fake chemical perfumes in the air are SO BAD for human health! At the very least, they can cause migraines and headaches. They enter though the nose and mouth and irritate the lining , block sinuses etc and again breathing them in is dangerous and bad for human health. Scents in the air that are man made chemicals are toxic! One expert I spoke to said he will not breathe anything but fresh air. He will not have any fake scent in the house, as he's seen the damage it can do, he's seen damage in infants.

Add on top of all of this, all the extra stuff she's doing daily such as fake tanning which is bad for you, again you're applying chemicals on your biggest organ, perfumes, hair dyes, nail treatments, not exercising, having rash operations to lose weight, the list goes on and on and on.

HOW she expects to be healthy when she puts zero effort into her health, blows my mind!

No body can survive and be healthy doing all of those things. It's impossible.

Can I just quickly add, various experts have shown that even people who omit these things and are living as clean as possible, still tested positive for things such as jet fuel in their bodies. So our bodies are under a lot of pressure without any of this from environmental issues, and taking anti-oxidants especially a natural healthy raw diet as much as possible which are loaded with anti-oxidants, is a must.

She needs to make massive changes if she wants her health back, at the moment she's ground to an absolute halt and it doesn't have to be that way. I follow a lady who lives a natural lifestyle (Jinti Fell on youtube) she inspires me every day and the difference between her and the Hinch is night and day!

But there's not telling or explaining to the Hinch or even encouraging her in the right direction, she worships the pound too much and won't listen to anybody but her own stupid ideas of what's right. So I just grab the popcorn and sit back and watch the results of someone who does everything almost, wrong. It's quite fascinating and tragic. Idc she's doing it to herself, but my heart breaks when I think of that poor baby, he deserves so much better than this kind of start.
 
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Shutthedoor

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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hinchers she's home 😍😍😍 my nipples are so hard they can cut glass..... can't wait to have my Soph back on her stories.... get that zoflo out babes and spray it all around 😍😍 ATB babes... love ya Soph babes... fan girl ova 'ere omg babes she's home.... Xxx xx
(Jestin' bitches 😏)
 
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Kiki1989

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She's a millionaire and getting given all thsee things that people struggle so hard to pay for. It's disgusting, shoving it in everyone's faces where is her dignity. Eurgh I almost felt sorry for her when she was ill but it's very hard to take pity on someone like that! Her stories have wound me up so much today. I'm glad to see I'm not alone.
 
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Blackjack2

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Cha ching!!! 💸💸💸💸💸💸 Time to make some money. Hospital didn't fix her conscious then. Isnt it hilarious how I can spend money so easily on shite I dont need and then make you buy it too, so I get my money back. #cracksmeup 😂😂
‘share gradually?’ yes it’s called drip feeding! Why don’t you share all the lovely gifts your Hinchers gave you at the book signings all the handmade and personalised items that were created just for you?? (Cups ear) ‘ what’s that you say Hinch? .. no profit in that?!!
 
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Crumpet

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I’ve just watched that YouTube video .... Jesus, the woman is a greedy, arrogant, calculating, self centred, conceited, fake and over confident twat. Anxiety my arse .... she was working the room, just like she is now.
 
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antisocialmedia

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tl;dr version: I've been on the receiving end of piles and piles of freebies and gifts and it's honestly not all its cracked up to be, and yes labeling gets hopelessly screwed up. It's a nightmare.

Long response:

Hi all, I've been lurking a while. I just wanted to pop in with some experience I have with this. Probably no one will read this, and maybe it doesn't apply to the Hinch situation at all, I don't know, but here you go.

I had a very popular infertility blog back in the early aughts, and after I finally got pregnant with my son, I had blog readers sending me all kinds of things. It was incredibly overwhelming, and I didn't have a management team or anything, since sponsored blogs and 'influencers' weren't a thing yet. We had a post office box we shared for public use, while keeping our home address private. The post office box got so backed up, they were calling us to pick up huge bags of parcels. Meanwhile, I was sick with hyperemesis gravidarium (throwing up twenty times a day, on IVs and a picc line for nourishment), my cervix stitched, and on bedrest.

When I tried to go through the gifts and post pictures and thank-you messages, links to people's shops, etc, I got a surge of hate in my email box about how spoiled I was, and how gross it was to get all these gifts when surely, as a popular blogger, I must have income pouring in from my blog ads.

It felt like a damned if I do, damned if I don't situation, and honestly, some of the stuff was really awful. Loads was mislabeled, some had no identification at all (might have been the post office mistake in handling? I know sometimes my husband screwed things up when he was opening boxes and parcels and trying to organize things for me... if someone had shipped me something directly from the store, he didn't always realize he needed to keep the packing slip with the gift so I could see who sent it, or read the gift message or whatever.) If people were handing her gifts at book signings, it would be very easy to lose the card, as they probably weren't prepared to go home with piles of presents. I know she's marketing savvy but the book scene is still new for her.

On top of it all, loads of it was from people just trying to get free advertisement for their shops. A ton of it was stuff I couldn't even use. I cloth diapered (my son was allergic to disposables) and breastfed (lucky me) and so I donated the disposable diapers and wipes to shelters and got hate for that because I was ungrateful and/or snobbish. Donated bottles and pacifiers/dummies because my baby wouldn't take anything but me, and got called selfish and cruel for shaming moms who use those things, even though I never shamed anyone and was really careful to make sure my wording was inclusive and accepting of all moms. I received clothes for the wrong gender (kept those in case I ever had a girl, and finally donated them with tears in my eyes 15 years later), received clothes that were too small to use (my baby weighed over 10 pounds because of my gestational diabetes), or just clothes we couldn't use because the fabrics irritated my son's skin.

I had folks who had sent me stuff feel like they deserved a shout out or a thank you, and then when they didn't get it, unfollowed and blocked me, and even went to snark sites to complain about me. It was hard to ignore the hurt/upset people because I could understand why they felt sad. They truly wanted to send me something nice, which omg, so incredible, right? But I also struggled with how much I should post. The sheer amount of gifts was off-putting to readers. It felt like such an impossible, bizarre, surreal position to be in. I still don't know how I should have handled it, except to maybe have asked that people make a donation to a charity or Hyperemesis foundation in my name or something if they really wanted to do something for me? I wonder if that would have worked. Or to somehow keep my location/PO box private. I don't know.

Sigh. I don't know if any of this relates to Hinch, but to put things in perspective, my blog was getting around 180K in traffic every month. By no means huge compared to today's influencers, but the gifts were impossible to manage. There was no social media yet. I received hundreds of comments on each post, and hundreds of emails every day. Companies of all kinds were contacting me for sponsorships every single day. It was insane.

Anyway, I ran Hinch's instagram through our company audit system (we check influencer's ratios for potential sponsorships... I work for a vacation/cruise clothing company) and her 2M followers comes back as 83% legit, which is actually really good. That doesn't scream paid followers at all, though the system isn't perfect. I ran my small, personal instagram through to see how it compared. My instagram is private, for family and friends only and so I know for a fact everyone on there is legit, and I got an 85% result. I think it docs followers who don't have a profile picture or any posts of their own... so people like my grandma, great aunts, etc. who are only on instagram to follow family count as spam or fake. Anyway, so let's say Hinch has 80% real followers. That's still something like 1.6 million followers. Even if a relatively small percentage of that number sent her gifts, I can't imagine how impossible it might be to manage/juggle. I also know of no influencer whose representation company helps with any of this. They'll coordinate the sponsorships, but they certainly aren't sending anyone over to help juggle gifts from readers... or even the packages sent by paid sponsors. Maybe the UK is different, but I'd be completely shocked if she had any help outside friends/family with the gifts coming in unless she's hired assistants, which is something she should consider if she hasn't already.

I'm so full of cringe over the tommy bottle sterilizer or whatever. She says it's highly rated, but I read poor reviews and the risk of bacteria and infection, and it just seems insane. No one needs a $200 sterilizer to make a bottle, my god. It reminds me of some of the sponsorships I took on later (once the sponsored blog thing became big) thinking they were relevant or a good fit, and instead it was a pile of junk I was never going to use, but the company had paid, so I felt obligated. I ended up removing all sponsorship info from my blog altogether and only offered sidebar ads, and then eventually closed down my blog altogether because the whole monetization of it all took the fun out of the project. Anyway, no one here cares, instagram is a very different beast, I realize.

Anyway, I'm not trying to be a white knight for Hinch or anything. I'm very concerned about the chemicals she dumps down her drain and her lack of disclosure for ads and sponsorships (which is why I'm here). I just had some maybe unique experience with the gift thing and wanted to share.

All that said, I wish I could tell all fans not to send money or gifts to their favorite celebrities/personalities. There are other ways to be supportive that don't result in a PR nightmare.

This is too long, sorry, I'm hopped up on allergy medicine. I'll shut up.
I found this interesting, I can see why your blog was well read. 😊
 
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