I remember Susie Verrill was interviewed on Alison Perry’s ‘Not Another Mummy Podcast’ back in 2017 (the episode is still available). Funnily enough, they worked together at ‘Look’ (along with Erica Davies, and I think, Hannah Gale), and Alison actually says on the podcast that she thought Susie didn’t like her, and Susie says it probably seemed that way but she was just young and it was the way she came across.
Anyway, they discuss the infamous ‘mum blogger’ thread on another very popular parenting website a few years back, where some Instamums were criticised, mainly about not declaring ads (though not really Susie - she was spoken about pretty favourably then). Clemmie Telford’s kids’ looks were criticised, which is clearly not on EVER, and Susie said she was angry, so waded in on the conversation, commenting on the thread in their defence. It seems incredibly hypocritical now given that she took issue with someone being nasty about one person’s child but around this time, thought it perfectly acceptable to pass comments (masquerading as deeply unfunny jokes) on disabled children. But then, those disabled children weren’t kids of Instamums, so perhaps that seemed absolutely fine to her?!
She was also very vocal again about how judgmental other parents can be with her and online in general, and how she disliked the judgement. But she always seemed very judgmental and rather condescending to me. That this was recorded around the time those tweets were sent (or surely before) really is appalling.
And she discussed the comments about Milo being dressed ‘like a girl’ and how horrible it all was. I remember that as I’d completely missed it at the time.
Worth a listen. She didn’t come across particularly well then, in my opinion. I’d be interested to know what Alison Perry REALLY thought of her...