Martha Kalifatidis has hit out at ‘internet know-it-all-perfect mums’ and has revealed how they are making her ‘mum guilt’ worse.
The Married At First Sight star, 36, took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to slam people for giving her unsolicited parenting advice on the platform.
She shared a sweet photograph of her son Lucius, 17 months, buckled into a small chair on the kitchen counter next to her while she cooked.
‘Just in case ya wondering, the @maxandkoko_ chair is still going strong. He just loves sitting here and watching mum cook,’ she captioned the post.
However, Martha, who shares her son with Michael Brunelli, was quick to follow up in an impassioned post hitting out at online trolls who criticised her for putting her child in the chair.
She said she was ‘losing patience’ with ‘know-it-all-perfect mums’ who felt the need to comment on her parenting and detailed her struggles with ‘mum guilt’.
‘Before everyone comes at me with their advice/opinions. He doesn’t sit in this chair all day,’ she penned in a lengthy caption.
‘He has heaps of time playing in his nursery and outside. He was sitting here because I was about to film, Michael was in a work meeting and Mary was cooking.
‘Instead of leaving him to play without supervision, he ate some berries and sat here. It’s sat I even need to preface this but I’m kind of running out of patience with the internet know-it-all-perfect mums.
‘Like being a mum isn’t already hard enough, the guilt, the stress of whether you’re doing things right is a daily battle.
‘So unless someone is asking, keep your opinion to yourself or phone a friend and discuss with them.’
Martha also took to Instagram on Thursday to give fans an update on how she was doing after undergoing a $15,000 breast explant surgery last week.
The reality TV star has been recovering after having her breast implants removed at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Melbourne.
A week on from the operation, Martha said she is feeling positive and hasn’t been in any pain at all in a candid video.
‘I kind of spent the week offline, chilling and not doing much since my but I feel amazing. I still cannot believe that I’ve had no pain whatsoever,’ she shared.
‘I feel great, I’m healing really well. I saw my doctor yesterday, he said everything is looking great and he’s loving my positive attitude. He said it’s part of the reason everything went so well.’
Martha’s explant surgery cost around $15,000 in total – which included $12,000 for the surgeon’s fees, while her insurance covered her $1,000 hospital stay and $2,000 anesthetic costs.
After the operation, Martha admitted she regrets getting the breast implants put in 15 years ago as she urged others against getting cosmetic surgery in their early 20s.
Giving advice to young women considering getting breast implants, she said: ‘If you are thinking about getting breast implants, think long and hard about it.
‘It shouldn’t just be something that you go ”f**k it, I’m just going to do it”. And if you’re young, just wait until you’re like 25.
‘If you still want to do it at 25, go and do it, but I just think long and hard, I wish I never got mine in.
‘I wish I had done [the explant surgery] so much sooner, I wish I had done it years ago.’