I was on Teen Mom UK – trolls slam me for going out & I’m constantly dress-coded, but I’m a hot mum and I won’t listen
WHILE some parents may think that life is all baby bottles and sleepless nights, this stunning brunette is here to prove everyone wrong.
Mia Boardman, a 27-year-old content creator from Southampton, starred in the UK series of Teen Mom and has since been targeted by cruel mum-shamers.
Not only have trolls slammed her for going out clubbing, but they’ve also labelled her a ‘bad mum’ because of the clothes she wears.
Opening up about the haters, Mia claimed that she won’t let them get her down, as she told Fabulous: “Every day I receive nasty comments. People comment constantly about what I wear.
“I wear cleavage dresses and low-cut tops – that’s what I like to wear. I’ll wear that and people comment saying ‘you don’t look classy, you look trashy’ and ‘you’re not dressing like a mum’.
“I like wearing that so I’ll continue to wear that. I don’t think what you wear defines how you are.
“I’m a hot mum definitely. You’ve got to back yourself. Especially raising a little girl as well, I want to show her confidence, always.”
Mia gave birth to her beautiful daughter Marliya, 7, when she was 19. She explained that she found out she was expecting a baby at the age of 18.
She explained: “I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant. I found out in the Sainsbury’s toilets.
“I thought my mum would hit the roof. I didn’t tell her until I was 16 weeks. I knew I was having a girl and she still didn’t know.
“My mum said ‘if that’s the life you want to live then fine’. She’s very brutal, honest and to the point, but it brought us closer together.
“She was worried about what I was actually going to do, but now we’re really close.”
Mia, who left college and didn’t get any qualifications, decided to get a job to earn some money for her child. However, when it came to taking maternity leave, she hadn’t been at the job long enough to get maternity pay, so ended up on statutory pay, which at the time was £110 a week.
She explained: “I had nothing, no money. I got my pushchair on Gumtree. At that time, I had no choice.
“I had no career, I had no money, and then I had a child relying on me. But she was the making of me. Even though I didn’t have the money, Marliya made me grow up.”
Mia, who is now 27, explained while people judged her for being a young mother, she wouldn’t listen to their nasty words.
People call me a bad mum and say that they ‘get the vibe my child hates me’
She continued: “It comes across that being a teen mum is a bad thing. People would say ‘your life’s over now’, but I think that’s why I’ve tried to make sure I’ve kept a life, apart from being a mum.
“I think life begins when you have children. You get a whole different feeling of love and motivation.”
Mia also shared that she felt judged by mothers at her daughter’s school too, as the mum-of-one explained: “I felt judgement when my daughter went to school. I didn’t join the mum groups or do the mum things, I wasn’t really around other mums.
“When she started school, I was going somewhere one night and I had a spray tan and I was doing the school run in a baggy dress with all these mums in their hoodies. I was standing in this dress, bright orange. I didn’t feel like a ‘mum’, I felt like people thought I was my daughter’s sister.”
Mia explained that not only this, but nasty trolls will comment on her social media posts on a daily basis, hurling abuse at her for being a young mother.
When it comes to comments she receives on Instagram, Mia revealed: “People say I’m ‘immature’.
“People look at what I don’t do and not at what I do. I read what people are saying and I’m like ‘Is that what you think?’
Just because you’re a mum, doesn’t mean you can’t go partying, you can’t wear certain outfits or you can’t go on holiday.
“Teen Mum is such a raw, open show. There’s no set up scenes, or good days to film. People forget that they’re watching a small clip of what’s going on. You can’t fit it all into the show.”
Mia explained not only do trolls call her immature, but they also accuse her of being a ‘bad mum’, because she enjoys going out and wearing clothes that show her cleavage.
She claimed: “Just because you’re a mum, doesn’t mean you can’t go partying, you can’t wear certain outfits or you can’t go on holiday. That’s not how I live. Some people live like that, that’s fine, but that’s not me.
“I could literally not go out for a whole month and then the one time I go out I get messages saying ‘where’s your child?’, ‘all you do is leave her’.
“People say that I treat Marliya like a friend, that my priority is me and all I want to do is go out and drink.
“If she’s with her grandma, what do you want me to do? Sit in and stare at the wall? I’m allowed to go out.
“Some people just think that your whole life stops when you have children. No. Everything you live, breathe and do is for that child, yeah, but you have to do things that make you happy too.
“If you go out and party until six in the morning on your night off, you’re seen as a bad mum, but I don’t get that.
“People call me a bad mum and say that they ‘get the vibe my child hates me’.”
But Mia admitted that she tries to ignore the nasty comments, as she shared: “It does start to weigh on you. If someone said ‘you’re ugly’, I don’t care, but when you speak about me as a mum, after a while, it does start getting to you.
“I never reply to the commets, I always ignore them. Most of the time it makes me laugh. It’s laughable.
“Social media is like the front page of a book, there’s so many chapters going on. You can’t judge someone by what you see online. There’s so much else to it.”
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