Love Island star Olivia Bowen mum-shamed as she shares update about her son
Love Island star Olivia Bowen was mum-shamed after she shared an update about her baby, Abel.
The 29-year-old reality star, who met her husband Alex Bowen on the hit ITV2 show, recently took to her Instagram page to share a picture of her baby son's bedroom and revealed she switched her son's crib for a toddler bed as he learned how to climb out of the cot.
Olivia, who lives with her husband in an Essex mansion, regularly shares updates about her life and her home. However, some followers decided to share their thoughts about the positioning of the bed. The critics called it 'dangerous' as they complained about the room.
She placed her baby's bed against the wall and many people said it was a safety hazard. One user said: "I believe you aren't meant to put beds against the wall? It's a safety hazard. There's sadly been a few children die because they have got trapped between the bed and the wall."
Olivia, who lives with her husband in an Essex mansion, regularly shares updates about her life (Instagram)
She was mum-shamed after sharing an update about her child's bed (Instagram)Another concerned user added: "I second this!! I've heard some real tragic stories of toddlers rolling over in a deep sleep and suffocating themselves between the bed and wall. I don't know what an appropriately sized gap is, I just know there should be a gap between the wall and bed xx"
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Some followers defended her and said: "If she had it away from the wall, people would comment child could fall and one wrong placed fall can kill a child... there is nothing that will be 'correct'."
Olivia recently opened up about how differently she has been treated on social media since becoming a mother. The former Love Islander has been open about the many challenges she has faced in the first year other motherhood, including her mental health battle.
The duo met each other on Love Island (Instagram)She has said mum-shaming online can make those challenges even harder than they already are. The reality TV star has also noticed a change in attitudes since becoming a mother. She shared how trolls now say she shouldn't be posting underwear pictures on social media now she is a mum but were happy with her doing it before.
Speaking to The Mirror, she said: "People don't want women to be sexy and to be mothers, they want them to be either or. That just doesn't sit right with me. I feel that women deserve the right to feel however they want to feel regardless if they are a mum or not. That isn't the whole of you, you are not just a mother you are a person as well.
"If you want to be confident and sexy, then you go and do that. I think that's what I have had issues with, 'oh you shouldn't be posting in underwear online'. I think it is such a narrow-minded way of looking at someone. People would be like before, 'Yeah wear your underwear online', but now I have become a mum they are like 'No don't do that'. It doesn't really make any sense, but it is just silly people's opinions."
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