Montana Brown, best known for appearing on Love Island in 2017, has received backlash from her social media followers after posting a rant about feeding children processed food
Montana Brown has received backlash from followers after posting a rant about feeding children processed food. The former Love Island star, 30, is mother to Jude, two, and 13-month-old Miley with rugby player Mark O’Connor.
She took to Instagram over the weekend to advise her fellow parents against buying food specifically marketed towards children despite the “convenience” that comes with doing so. She said: “Guys this is for the mothers, or soon-to-be mothers, don’t get into the trap of buying kids food.Like going to the kids aisle in the shop and seeing all these kiddilicious wafers, ooh a chicken casserole in a little squirty thing.
“I hate them, I really hate them, I think, they want it to be so easy for us they want it to be so convenient that we buy them every day and feed them to our kids because it’s healthy and easy way to, you don’t have t make them a chicken casserole. It’s full of c**p.
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“And yes there’s a time and a place for these things, but I also think they make it so easy for us to just purchase them and give them to our kids on a regular basis, that our kids just don’t enjoy the experience of eating eeal food and I think it’s really harsh on their palette when they have something really.
“I used to give Jude pouches back in the day, he used to have pouches very rarely, and when I looked at the ingredients I was like ”oh my gosh I do not want to give him this stuff ever. Miley I would never give her a pouch, and it just annoys me because I think we need to give kids real food.
“And actually there doesn’t need to be a kids section necessarily, we can just give them a carrot or we can give them cucumber, we can give them an apple, we can give them a pear, it just takes a couple more minutes to prepare. It’s just really frustrating.
“And even the little raisins, don’t buy the little packets of raisins just because they’re kid-sized, buy a big normal packet of raisins, get a handful out, shove them in your pocket, go out for the day, that can be their snack.
“I just don’t like it, the whole marketing to kids and marketing to Mums to create kid-specific products that actually aren’t even that good for them that are just truly ultra-processed sickens me, and I think there should be more policy on it because I think it’s so hard to actually avoid ultra-processed for kids and get them to be eating normal food.’
It was then that the TV star, who found fame on the third series of the ITV2 dating show in 2017 alongside the likes of Loose Women panellist Olivia Attwood and former Strictly Come Dancing finalist Amber Davies, started to receive some backlash from her fellow parents, who claimed that the whole video came across as “mum shaming” to them.
One follower wrote: “This isn’t it babe, Mum shaming as a Mum herself is crazy,” and another said: “I’m confused when people say they’re full of c**p? It’s normal ingredients that you would use at home (maybe not you but I would)” Another said: “Try being a busy mum with a full-time job, being out the house 8am-6pm every day (bills to pay). We need a bit of convenience at times. Don’t guilt trip those of us who don’t have time to scratch cook nutritionally balanced meals 21 times a week.”
A third raged: “My toddler is sat eating chocolate buttons at 10am cos it’s the only thing that would make her happy – we have to do whatever we need to go!” and another said: “Oh no hunni in this corner of motherhood we don’t judge other mums.”
However, others agreed with Montana, with one writing: “Yeah I’m with you on this, I don’t like them at all. I’d rather meal prep and give them a homemade meal, portion them, freeze them and bring them out when I need them quickly.”
Another said: “I have used them pouches before and now if I was to have another baby I will try my absolute best to do whole foods as much as possible! You’re so right about the marketing!”
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