Helloooo, so I have been a silent reader of Tattle for a while now and feel brave enough to speak up.
Like so many others, I was also a “hincher” (ewww vom at that word). I set up a cleaning Instagram, bought all of the rubbish she was advertising and basically got sucked in to the whole world that Sophie promoted. I suffer from depression and anxiety, and despite her speaking about her own experiences with mental health, the Mrs Hinch account actually made me worse. I wouldn’t switch off, the house had to be immaculate, my poor husband wasn’t allowed to breathe without me fussing that things weren’t clean. If I missed something from my “daily list” I would beat myself up about it and it even started to affect me sleep.
I got pregnant just before Christmas and that slowed me down. I have this whole little human who relied on me and he isn’t even here yet! As my pregnancy developed (along with Sophie’s) I suddenly found myself getting very angry. She continued to act like she wasn’t pregnant, exposing herself to chemicals and not looking after herself or the baby. I was not surprised when she went into hospital and I bet they gave her a bollocking for behaving so stupidly.
My next gripe was nearly everything that Sophie has for her baby has been gifted and probably won’t be used. Most members of her audience are women like myself who do not have the money to buy from companies like Tommie Tippie or Babeek. For someone who advertises herself as “just a common girl who likes to clean her home” Sophie does a very good job at rubbing our nose in her “success”. It’s fairly obvious that she doesn’t take criticism very well and sees it as “bullying” but surely someone in either her family or management is explaining to her why people respond negatively to certain things
I am still following her because I am nosey but I really hope someone gives Sophie a wake up call about her behaviour because it’s got to the point now where you can’t defend her. I worry for her baby and enough is enough now.
Sorry for the long post! xxx