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Mom Shaming: The New EpidemicWith mom shaming at an all-time, @Jessica Alba and @Ashley Graham come to the Table to share their experiences as frequent targets. Jada shares her own stories of being mom shamed and Willow reveals how that affected her. Plus, RTT Favorite, Dr. Ramani reveals the devastating effects mom shaming can have.
Posted by Red Table Talk on Monday, October 12, 2020
In an honest discussion on an October 2020 episode of "Red Table Talk," Graham chatted with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris about being mom-shamed and how they deal with the trolls.
Graham, who gave birth to her son Isaac eight months before the episode, got candid about receiving hate from both people on social media and close family members regarding everything from breastfeeding in public to changing her son's diaper on the floor. "It's interesting because my whole career has been based around body shaming because I'm a curvy girl who has come into a skinny world, and said that my body, and other bodies like mine, need to be normalized," she said. "I knew that [mom-shaming] was coming and I was ready to combat it, but it never feels good to have someone tell you that you're not doing a good enough job, that you're doing something wrong."
She also opened up about being attacked on Instagram for trying to normalize breastfeeding in public for new mothers. "My whole career is based off of being sexy and my breasts have been the forefront of many magazine covers, so then to flip to my baby is there sucking on them, I think that people just had to switch their minds, but they are multi-purposeful," she said.