The London Chatter (Kelly Eastwood)

[sleepingstandingup]

This girl preaching about sustainability when she has been gifted so much baby gear is astonishing to me. She has free multiples of the same item and then pretends to be compassionate towards the environment. Her stories are just her unboxing new gifted items and encouraging others to consume, consume, consume.
So far she’s been gifted:
- 3 buggies (bugaboo, babyzen, doona)
- 3 baby carriers (2 babybjorn, 1 artipoppe)
- 2 babybjorn bouncers
- a snuzpod
- a sleepyhead pod
- countless outfits, muslins, sheepskins, blankets

Grift away all you want for free shit but when one of your tags in you bio is sustainability and being and ambassador for no more plastic it makes no sense to have multiples of baby items that have such a short shelf life.

 

[BrideHouse]

This girl preaching about sustainability when she has been gifted so much baby gear is astonishing to me. She has free multiples of the same item and then pretends to be compassionate towards the environment. Her stories are just her unboxing new gifted items and encouraging others to consume, consume, consume.
So far she’s been gifted:
- 3 buggies (bugaboo, babyzen, doona)
- 3 baby carriers (2 babybjorn, 1 artipoppe)
- 2 babybjorn bouncers
- a snuzpod
- a sleepyhead pod
- countless outfits, muslins, sheepskins, blankets

Grift away all you want for free shit but when one of your tags in you bio is sustainability and being and ambassador for no more plastic it makes no sense to have multiples of baby items that have such a short shelf life.

I think most influencers promoting sustainability forget that the most sustainable thing is not to buy anything at all, unless you actually need it!

This has reminded me of something else she did that doesn’t sit well with me. I entered an Instagram giveaway to win a pair of shoes from a small but expensive brand (Bionda Castana, their heels cost around £500) and Kelly also entered and won, presumably because the brand saw she had 100k followers and the other entries were just from ‘normal’ personal accounts. I thought it was really greedy of her when she already gets gifted so much stuff (I can think of multiple shoes she’s been gifted!) and is clearly more wealthy than the average person.

 

[garfield123]

I was sat opposite her once at a dinner and she was incredibly rude and ignored throughout as I wasn’t deemed of value, clearly. She was very full of her own opinion - I don’t know how these self-important influencers get a word in edgeways with each other (eg her highly annoying friend Rosanna Falconer). I can’t believe she’s 42 though - she does look brilliant for it!

 

[Gflo93]

Yes her family are a rich privileged white family from Kenya. She views herself as an environmentalist, mainly because she designs a turtle make-up bag with Elizabeth Scarlett which raises money for an ecological foundation (good). However, she also seems to be constantly trying to shill unnecessary crap to the public and travelling unnecessarily (bad). She’s been blogging for agesss, I’m pretty sure I first encountered her through Rosie (Londoner) for some reason, so maybe 8-10 years but she doesn’t seem to be hugely successful, I think she is mainly rich via family. She is well connected and friends with the Delevigne sisters and Sienna Miller and her sister.

She’s popped up recently via Niomi, mainly due to her breaking of lockdown rules and superior sense of humour.

 

[Sunburnsjess]

Ahh yess Kelly “24 baby showers” Eastwood. Thanks for creating this!

 

[sleepingstandingup]

The Kenya trip looks amazing. Her ‘home’. Slightly uncomfortable quite colonial feel to it though. All the ‘besties’ are white well to do people. All the Kenyans there to serve……

Yes to the feel of colonialism. Her grandparents came to Kenya in the 1950s and her family have been white landowners there for well over 70 years. Totally uncomfortable and a half. Kelly has to be one of the most pampered and privileged bloggers on the internet all whilst preaching sustainability and living an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

In her own words, she literally ‘moved mountains’ to get home to Kenya by ‘laying low for two weeks’ despite taking Instagram posts of herself in those two weeks prancing around West London in gifted clothes. I’m sure the only mountain that was moved was booking her first class flight (humble brag stories of the inside of the cabin), taking her PCR tests and filling out all the paperwork, but it’s probably the most actual work she’s done in the last year or so.

And look, gifted matching Antler luggage and a free babyzen yoyo buggy too for the flight. Much sustainable, I’m sure jet setting Kelly already had plenty of luggage and didn’t need to accept a freebie of three new suitcases.

 

[Cheebachoo]

Why does she always dress up her son like a drug dealer? I thought she’d be a ‘shirt, shorts and fair isle pullover’ type!

 

[Cupcakes1600]

She has just posted that she went to Kenya-apparently luckily just before the Government restrictions were introduced 8 days ago but posted stuff 3 days ago without any mention of being in Kenya. I don't care where she is as such but it is annoying if she is deceiving her followers. She won't be the only one -probably Rosie Londoner and maybe Lucy Williams for starters.

 

[Cheebachoo]

The Kenya trip looks amazing. Her ‘home’. Slightly uncomfortable quite colonial feel to it though. All the ‘besties’ are white well to do people. All the Kenyans there to serve……

 

[garfield123]

Rosanna needs her own thread, she is very smug with a high opinion of herself (it seems). She must be well connected to get as much work / as many invites/ free trips as she does, or maybe it is the constant brown-nosing.

 

[Lamy]

She is in Greek islands…baby free (?) and enjoying a press trip and face masks. How amazing is that??

 

[oreococo]

This thread has been super quiet, but she's been popping up on my FYP a lot, and her face drives me crazy. She does this thing with her mouth and it's like she's constipated and struggling to shit or smth; like it simultaneously cracks me up and pisses me off at the same time. Like she'd be semi pretty if she didn't make that face but with that face... yikes...

who approves her instagram posts? because if she does it herself, that's embarassing.

 

[sleepingstandingup]

Yeah that’s her boyfriend.

I wonder what they have to talk about. He’s very accomplished; undergrad from Oxford, Phd and postdoc from Cambridge and senior lecturing at Imperial and Kelly… well she spends her days arranging gifted items and taking photos of them for her Instagram. She just comes across as so vapid.

I’m also side eyeing the fact that she has stated that she won’t feature him on her blog and Instagram to protect his privacy but has no issues constantly posting their son’s image online.

 

[Silentcritique]

No problem! Haven’t had time to properly update it but I’m sure with time she’ll commit women other offences that will be worth documenting!! Seems to be a serial offender in terms of influencer nonsense

 

[Cheebachoo]

Yes, it is! I just don’t like the smug way she presents it. Also her preaching on sustainability. So out of touch. I’m sure everyone would be more sustainable if they had financial freedom. It’s easy when you have had an upbringing in Kenya with servants and in a multi million pound house in Windsor! I expect mummy and daddy are there to bail you out when your acting career fails, and you’ve never had a proper job!

 

[zizzly]

Oh Niomi's "rule breaking landlord" ..nice!

 

[Chocolate2008]

She is gorgeous & I have serious wardrobe envy (if I had her figure - post baby at 40 credit to her). But I don’t get how anyone whose father headed up Coke in Africa of all places can preach about corporate responsibility. And as others have pointed out crazy consumerism on the one hand and save the oceans on the other. And the colonial atmosphere is a bit uncomfortable in today’s world.

 

[Meg1912]

Pretty sure this is her boyfriend.

 

[Walkthehemline]

Anyone know who this woman is?! What exactly does she do for a living/ her husband! Annoyed to see her flying about the place over the last few weeks...

Yeah I second this!! Anyone know anything about her background? She seems extraordinarily wealthy. I wasn’t at all surprised when she announced she flew to Kenya in the middle of the pandemic. So privileged.

I am fairly sure that her dad used to run Coca-Cola for all of Africa - not a bad gig. Not sure about her mum though.

 

[garfield123]

I don’t follow her enough to know the update - is she leaving London? Is she still with the baby daddy?