'No one deserves to be told she's a bad mother'

Well-known model and influencer, Emily Ratajkowski became the mother of the boy Sylvester Apollo for the first time on Mother's Day, and in a very short time, she was targeted by internet haters and trolls who always have an opinion and do not hesitate to share it.

EmRata, who until now loved to post details from her life on social networks, shared with her followers moments of anticipation, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other moments of parenthood. And while in the months leading up to the birth of a child she spoke openly about the excitement and fears she felt then as a future mother, a few days ago in an Instagram story she addressed those who leave her countless negative comments on her parenting skills on a daily basis.

A wave of anger, name-calling, and embarrassment from strangers on the internet was prompted by a photo published about a month ago in which EmRata holds her child with one hand, and the cyber-bullying of this famous new mother has not stopped until today, so she decided to react:

‘We look back at the way we treated Britney a long time ago and embarrassed her when she drove a car with her son in her lap. We’re talking about how we need to be better as a culture. At the same time, my comments are full of horrible remarks that I don’t deserve to be a mother. Shame on you. I don't care if you hate me, celebrities (or hate women), but it's scary to become a parent and no one deserves to be called a shitty mother, 'Emily wrote.

In the post, she referred to the case of Britney, who once, fleeing from the paparazzi, held her frightened son on her lap while driving a car, and later those same paparazzi made money on photos of the disputed situation, and the media called the singer an unsuitable mother.

Although the Britney case has resulted in a conservatorship her father still has over her, and a series of documentaries that question the role of the media in presenting the famous singer as an incompetent mother and public opinion that we should know better today than 15 years ago, the reality seems to be much different. So another famous mother had a ‘clash’ with the paparazzi the other day, and she described the situation on Instagram.

'You edit these photos so that it seems like I’m waving merrily, but that’s not true. The real story: my children were followed by men all day. They jumped out and hid. An unknown person argued with them on the street because she was upset to see it. When I calmly tried to approach the photographers you hired to take these photos, they would run away. Do you check on the photographers you hire to stalk the kids? I would like to know. Or the safety of the children is not important to you. With those photographers I was able to talk to, I arranged to smile and wave if they would take my childless photo, to leave my children alone. Because it was scary. Tell the whole story. And at least minimally, listen to your readers. They understand that it is dark and disturbing to pay people to stalk children. There are many photos you can post without children. Please delete these photos. Keep up with the times,' Blake Lively wrote to the Daily Mail Australia.

These two different cases, unfortunately, point to the same problem, and that is that despite the great media attention and the awareness of injustice and media chase that Britney experienced fifteen years ago, which was supposed to better us as a society, the results are, at least for now, absent. Many still claim the right behind anonymous profiles on social media to condemn and call out mothers for their way of raising children, use their anger or envy for fame and fortune as fuel for endless negative comments, trying to embarrass and belittle women and their feelings - whether it is about content they publish themselves, or an appeal to leave their children alone.