03 March 2023 , 12:52
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The mother of a brave girl who has been sharing her alopecia journey on TikTok says she is constantly having to delete vile comments from hateful trolls.
Ghouls on the platform have been inundating Kelly Whitehouse's posts about daughter Aubree's condition, ridiculing the the five-year-old and calling her a "boy".
The mum and daughter have been warming hearts sharing posts on the app about Aubree's battle with the auto-immune condition, which means the youngster suffers frequent hair loss and baldness.
Mum Kelly, from the Black Country, began sharing updates in the hopes of spreading awareness of the condition which affects approximately 400,000 people in the UK, with the youngster quickly becoming a viral sensation.
But instead she says she is regularly having to delete nasty comments from a "small handful of trolls", and in one video which racked up two million views, Kelly had to disable commenting due to the volume of abuse to avoid it being seen by Aubree's two sisters.
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Kelly is constantly having to delete nasty comments about her daughter in the hopes her other children won't see them (Kelly Whitehouse)"We've had a lot of nasty comments on TikTok," Kelly told Birmingham Live.
"It's very hard to deal with.
"Obviously Aubree isn't aware of this, we only tell her about the nice comments, but on one video the comments were so bad I had to turn them off - there were too many to keep deleting."
Thankfully, Kelly said the majority of comments are incredibly positive and supportive.
"People call her a boy, tell her she has cancer and compare her to bald men - nasty things like that.
"It's not nice to see as a parent, I try to delete them as quickly as I can.
"But the majority of comments have been really positive - which is really nice to see.
"I get a lot of people asking about her condition which I like - that's why we started the channel in the first place."
After losing her hair in a matter of weeks, brave Aubree Whitehouse has built a huge online following on the video sharing platform after her mum started to upload heartwarming videos of her dancing during the course of her treatment.
Mum Kelly Whitehouse said she started the channel to raise awareness and tackle the stigma around the condition.
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