To all those asking why the Meldrums are so hated - honestly there has been SO much that you really do need to read the threads to get a feel for it and have your eyes opened.
I am an ex Meldrum follower. Was inspired by her, was influenced by her (undeclared) adverts, and used to enjoy her content.
I have since come to realise that she is an underhand, selfish, vain, narcissistic, pathological liar whose priorities are how much money she can make for as little effort as possible, and escaping for Me Time (preferably with her PT at the gym) as often as possible (including Easter Sunday where she decided that going to the gym was preferable to spending time with her family at an Easter egg hunt).
I can give you some examples of how I’ve drawn my conclusions, although by themselves they seem like small things, if you read the threads you will also realise that she’s a nasty piece of work.
I actually can’t believe I was so deceived for so many years (I was an avid viewer from 2014 to 2018).
Most notably she failed to take her tiny infant to the doctor when, by her own admission, she was struggling to breathe and desperately ill.
She instead chose to pose suggestively/scantily clad on the bed asking viewers what they thought she should do.
Of course that makes for some awesome engagement from her viewers - oh and her husband happened to be out on the town that night which we know she doesn’t like.
Perhaps I should mention her accepting payment to promote a food bank - which she then turned up empty handed to vlog, and felt it was appropriate to include this alongside scenes of her frivolously spending and pigging out in a restaurant beforehand.
On another occasion she was asked by a lovely sounding man why her book was called “Mummy and Me” when, as a gay man with a child, he felt he may have benefitted from the kind of book it was.
Meldrum’s response?
Same as always. If you ask a question you get blocked and your comment is deleted.
She refuses to engage with anything which isn’t a compliment or part of one of her (many) ads.
She is also not transparent at all when it comes to adverts.
She had a tantrum about being told to label adverts correctly per the official guidelines, but had a go at this for a couple of posts/videos and then went back to doing it her own way.
She is taking advantage of vulnerable people by advertising items which she wants them to think she’s bought! I was a new mother when I first starting watching her and I can’t tell you how much money she made me waste, trying to keep up with what I thought I had to have to be a good mother.
Also she felt it was appropriate to insinuate that she may have had breast cancer (thankfully she didn’t) to advertise Next, the clothing store.
Oh and an expensive Boden top cures anxiety apparently.
There is so, so much more (including more that one occasion where she filmed her eldest daughter for content when she expressively asked NOT to be filmed).
Plus Disneyland Paris. You probably already know about that!
Anyway hope that helps! Personally I think it’d make a lovely article