Has anyone seen this? I was vaguely aware of the story when it hit the news a while back, but very much a US based piece of domestic news, so didn't really pay much attention to it.
Truly shocking! This YouTube "muminfluencer" who used the channel to project herself as the perfect all American mum to six children. Although behind the scenes, as the children grew they became less co-operative in being forced to appear in these films as part of being presented, superficially, as a wholesome family. I think it's an example of how shameful some well known people are who use their children to that end. As one child expressed, it was an intrusion into their lives once it became a forced routine and they were punished for a lack of co-operation.
The family were Mormons, the father a rather passive background figure. Their lives were to take an altogether darker twist when the mother falls under the influence of a Jodi Hildebrandt, a pernicious self style counsellor, specialising in psychiatric and psychological mental health, who goes on to became not only a fixture in the family's life, but also moving into their home. At which stage husband and the 2 older children are evicted and the younger children are left at the mercy of two increasingly deranged women who go on to physically and mentally abuse them.
I merely wanted to see what it was all about, but became riveted and watched the whole lot last night.
Yes the dad was rather nice, but suffered from an inferiority complex, on the assumption that he was punching above his weight in landing this glamorous wife, describing himself as a nerd. I thought she was an awful mother, even before she fell under the auspices of the completely insane Hildebrandt woman. Yes, initially she made the family a lot of money but had a total disregard for her children's well being they were mere props in her brand building. They all suffered, the eldest daughter, no longer has anything to do with her and the older son is very conflicted in how he feels. She and her accomplice are in prison now, two of the children nearly died whilst in their care. Both the woman were charged with physical cruelty and neglect.What's one health habit you've started that's actually made a difference?
