How my Blog Spat With Mayim Bialik Went Viral
It’s a growing trend in Hollywood: celebrity moms who blog. Gwyneth Paltrow (Goop) Brooke Burke (Modern Mom), Elizabeth Rohm (People) and Laila Ali (Us Magazine) are just a few of the celebrity moms who are blogging. Non-celebrity moms look to them for parenting advice, tips and trends. We want to see what they’re wearing, what their kids are wearing (or riding in) and where they’re going, whether to birthday parties or the park. They sell magazines and boost blog traffic.
I write a blog, “Beyond The Brochure,” for parents applying to private elementary schools in Los Angeles. Recently, my guest blogger, Jenny Heitz, wrote a very funny piece for my blog about “Perfect Mommy Syndrome” at LA private schools. At the top of her piece, I posted a photo of celebrity moms Mayim Bialik (Blossom, The Big Bang Theory) and supermodel Gisele and asked the question, “Are Celebrity Moms Too Perfect?”
For those of you who don’t know, Mayim Bialik, she was just named a mommy blogger for The Today Show. She is the mom of two toddlers, has been quoted in People magazine about her support for “attachment parenting,” (an extreme form of parenting where your infant is always at your side, sleeps with you, breastfeeds on demand and bonds with you in other ways, according to its proponents). Mayim was quoted in People saying that she gave birth to her second child at home, while her 3-year old watched as he ate homemade granola (June 4, 2009). She makes all her own eco-friendly cleaning products, homeschools her kids and so on. Gisele has advocated a worldwide mandatory breastfeeding law. Sounds like a pair of “perfect mommies” to me!
Apparently, Mayim read my blog and didn’t like our headline touting her as a “perfect mommy.” She responded on a blog, The Holistic Moms Network, for which she is the spokesperson. Mayim wrote that she’s not a perfect mom and listed her flaws. She was very reasonable. Her followers, however, were another story entirely.
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