Chelsea Instagram

[Demonfan]

@JermajestyDuggar I confess that little demon 1 and 2 both wore these outfits when they were young, smocking and all!

[Milly-Molly-Mandy]

8 hours ago, NachosFlandersStyle said:

Oh my god, I'm obsessed with this account. Did you see the Trump-themed birthday party?

Yesss! And this is why FJ are my people! I go to sleep, spend the morning running around with a toddler and baby then open FJ when they are napping to FIVE pages on this family. You guys are as interested as me! Love!!

[Milly-Molly-Mandy]

I am so curious about the boy as well and found out on her mother in laws Instagram (a hateful trump supporter, can’t bear her!) that they got told boy but found out a few weeks before Charlotte was born that it was actually a girl which is why they had monogrammed Charlotte stuff for her when she was born. 

Baby Charlotte is adorable and chubby but her mother keeps making comments about what a pig she is. She does actually weigh more than my almost 3 year old by a bit but it’s clear Chelsea has eating issues. 

Has anyone visited the sister yet? They use to be super close and post lots of pics together and tag each other lots (I have gone back to both their instagrams from the beginning!) but the past year or so they’ve only been together once. A fight maybe? The sister actually sews, Chelsea doesn’t. She has 3 girls with a 8 or 9 year age gap between her eldest and second  maybe secondary infertility from some of her comments  

http://instagram.com/mum2oliviakatecaroline.lucybea

[Marshmallow World]

57 minutes ago, mango_fandango said:

Someone mentioned Sara Crewe upthread. Sara was like the ideal child in a way; kind, sweet, caring, never judgmental like whichever girl said that the woman who took the photo was obviously a Hillary supporter. 

That was me. I freaking LOVED A Little Princess (both the book and the movie) and I will fight anyone who says anything bad about it. For the daughter to be so anti-Sara shows that Mom is probably more Miss Minchin than Amelia.

[chaotic life]

My money is on all the C monograms with little warning was getting Caroline’s handme downs.

I’m southern and I’ve been around money my entire life. And yes it’s a thing. However most people I know still did the whole matching and curls for special occasions.

I have one girl who had a serious love of bows for awhile. I did them because SHE begged for them, but 90% it the time the hairdo was simple, and still is. But the bows we had were never bigger than her head.

When my kids were very little I matched them for Easter and Christmas. Now the best I do is a theme for Christmas PJs. It just got to be too much, too hard to find in the sizes and both genders and too big of a pain to see them myself.

[Shiny]

17 minutes ago, Marshmallow World said:

That was me. I freaking LOVED A Little Princess (both the book and the movie) and I will fight anyone who says anything bad about it. For the daughter to be so anti-Sara shows that Mom is probably more Miss Minchin than Amelia.

That moved wrecked me as a kid, but I loved it. “Papa! Papa!”  I cried every time. 

[Marshmallow World]

18 minutes ago, Shiny said:

That moved wrecked me as a kid, but I loved it. “Papa! Papa!”  I cried every time. 

Me too. Full disclosure: I watched it lately with Little Marshmallow. We both sobbed. It's probably been 20 years, and I was surprised how well it stands up. Truly a beautiful film.

[Grimalkin]

    Could you imagine her being in your friend circle? What the heck does she have to talk about? I would hate listening to her go on and on.

[PreciousPantsofDoom]

I clicked on the link up thread to poke around her church website. I can't get past the grammar on the screen above their heads. "Don't give me nothing less" Uh.....?   Nevermind any potential religious quibbles, I take issue with their grammar!

[OtterRuletheWorld]

Chelsea Pomeroy does anyone follow her on Instagram? She is Pentecostal with 4 little girls and dresses them like she’s in some old fashioned play. 
She lives near the Duggars
i had no idea what Pentecostals are until I started randomly following her but have now been down a rabbit hole of Pentecostal fashion, bloggers and such. 
 
Probably my most WTF post was her Donald Trump themed daughters birthday party (she’s a huge fan) second only to her post on bow training her youngest daughter. She was 11 months old. To stop her taking bows off her head
Anyway I had to stop following her after the election but started again and wanted to discuss her with FJ 

I have just started looking through this thread, but holy shit. Who are these people and who thinks it is remotely normal to have a trump themed birthday party or any political themed birthday party for your kids. I can't look away. So strange.

[fundiefun]

42 minutes ago, Marshmallow World said:

Me too. Full disclosure: I watched it lately with Little Marshmallow. We both sobbed. It's probably been 20 years, and I was surprised how well it stands up. Truly a beautiful film.

What's funny is the actress who plays Sarah is Liesel Pritzker who are heirs to some hotel chain and worth billions. From people who knew her she was actually very modest and reserved growing up and drove a regular car and worked the counter at a local restaurant after school. She now is an ambassador to some charities and is actually putting her money to good use under developed nations and is a classy women.

[mango_fandango]

32 minutes ago, fundiefun said:

What's funny is the actress who plays Sarah is Liesel Pritzker who are heirs to some hotel chain and worth billions. From people who knew her she was actually very modest and reserved growing up and drove a regular car and worked the counter at a local restaurant after school. She now is an ambassador to some charities and is actually putting her money to good use under developed nations and is a classy women.

Sounds like a real life Sara! 

Whenever I watched movies as a kid I would often want to wear the outfits they were all wearing, particularly with Madeline. 

[HeadshipRegent]

take me to the prayer closet but i think the dresses are kinda of cute... with normal sized bows, of course.   

 

this lady is absolutely insane, though. my head and hair were hurting while scrolling through her instagram.

[barnacles]

11 hours ago, Bad Wolf said:

In one of the pictures I saw, she mentioned that Abigail? had lengthened the strap of her purse. Will Abigail's depravity never end? 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this, because you're probably exactly right.  Good Lordt, the crazy lady probably really does feel this way about the poor child.  The teen years are going to be rough ones.  This has to be a Christopher Guest mockumentary of Trump Nation.  It just has to be...

[ViolaSebastian]

2 hours ago, HeadshipRegent said:

take me to the prayer closet but i think the dresses are kinda of cute... with normal sized bows, of course.   

If this was a case of dressing up for family pictures or Christmas Eve service and the like, I wouldn't think twice about it, and some of the outfits are lovely. But at the frequency and level she does it, its disturbing. Beyond the whole living doll aspect, the lack of individuality expressed is sad. Seriously, Abigail is the only one in that family I think I would want anything to do with.  

I will snark hard at the enormous portrait of the baby right beside her crib (in case they forget what she looks like???) and the Trump birthday party for a five and two year old. Jesus, fuck. 

Edited October 29, 2017 by ViolaSebastian

[WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo?]

I blame this thread for the ad that has started popping up when I'm on FJ.

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Oh well. Considering some of the topics we discuss here, it could be worse! 

I guess I agree with the people who have said that a few matching outfits here and a hairbow there can be kind of cute, but that this appears to be beyond excessive.

[Demonfan]

 I am familiar with this esthetic Catalogs such as Orient Expressed sell these types of dresses, smocked and monogrammed, in all sizes to have siblings match. Bows were part of the look. The curled hair though? Never saw it.  Hair was very simple, but had the mandatory bow. This was about 10 years ago in a southern-ish state. A wealthy crowd for sure. This look was a must for Holidays, church, ECT. Sometimes, kids would wear the simple dresses to play in, but with Crocs, or sandals. And, again it seems to be her obsession on how her kids look that makes her so worrying. Also, her sharing everything about it online.

[JermajestyDuggar]

9 hours ago, jozina said:

What the hell does the husband think of this? If Mr Jozina came home to find I'd been dressing the kids up like that and posing them for photos he'd think I'd lost my marbles.  No way would he let me treat our blessings like props who could be made as uncomfortable as I wanted so long as I got my freaky photos.  Crazytown the lot of them.  Those poor children.  I hope they all end up pants wearing socialists.

I bet he loves it. He knew what he was getting when he married her. I bet he loves the perfectly matching well groomed dolls on his arm all the time. He obviously wants a trophy family. 

9 hours ago, Demonfan said:

@JermajestyDuggar I confess that little demon 1 and 2 both wore these outfits when they were young, smocking and all!

I don't have a problem with those smocked outfits for boys. But I guarantee she would put a boy in that type of outfit every single day until he's 4 years old and he wouldn't get to go out and play. Since he might get dirty...

[JermajestyDuggar]

I want to know how much money she spent on monogrammed and personalized boy clothing that went unworn. I bet she wasted a lot of money and was PISSED when they found out they were having a girl. Maybe that's why she won't talk about it? Because it's a sore subject. 

[nastyhobbitses]

10 hours ago, mango_fandango said:

Even Kate Middleton only dresses her kids like that for official photos. Apparently they're dressed in normal clothes for day-to-day. Charlotte's never in a stupid lacy bonnet and only wears one hair clip or simple bow. 

And even Charlotte's dresses for events don't look like a fabric store vomited all over her; they look like slightly more upscale versions of the garden-variety nice dress you'd buy for your two-year-old to wear for a family picture or a formal event. George's rompers are a little more fussy-looking, but even his outfits are appropriately loose and with clean lines, so he can move freely.

And I'm told that they wear the slightly more frou-frou/old-fashioned outfits for official outings because that's how people will recognize them, so when they run around in more normal clothing day-to-day, they're not as recognizable by the public and will be mostly left alone (I think the Queen said something similar about why she wears such brightly colored, distinctive clothes when she goes to official functions).

[BabyBottlePop]

I follow a girl I used to work with who dresses her children in the smocked gingham... but she does not dress them identically or every day! I found a Instagram the girl I follow buys from (smocked auctions) and lo and behold Chelsea's sister follows it a well. I like some of the stuff, but only for special occasions.

The bubble for boys seems somewhat feminine to me and therefore an outfit you would think a homophobic person would worry about dressing their kid in. 

 

[nastyhobbitses]

8 hours ago, mango_fandango said:

Whenever I watched movies as a kid I would often want to wear the outfits they were all wearing, particularly with Madeline. 

I was all about the Disney princesses as a kid. I had a Belle costume when I was three that I wanted to wear every single day (and this year for Halloween, I was Belle again...but this time in a yellow minidress and my highest red heels), and maybe I should cringe a bit at the cultural appropriation now, but I LOVED my Mulan costume when I was seven. I thought all her dresses/hanfu were so pretty and I wanted to be just like her, even though I'm not remotely Chinese (I guess that's why I ended up studying Mandarin and Chinese history in college).

[Lurky]

"What does she do with the kids when they have to, I don't know, go to the doctor?" I hear you ask.

Her oldest daughter is 9, right?  So many of the dress she puts them in much 'younger' than that, and wow, the sister's daughter is 10?  They're really NOT going to be happy when those girls hit puberty...

ETA a 9 year old in this???  Hell, I'd think that was too young for a 6 year old.

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Seems like this is the school uniform, from the sister's insta - and I am cackling over finding a Bible quote to go with "my 10 year old daughter learned to curl her hair and put it in a huge bow"

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I'm surprised the school allows them to go in with such huge bows and elaborate hair styles.  I would love to know what the other school-gate parents think of them...

I wondered if having the cousins do the same crazy things is good for them (because at least they're not the only ones) but I bet it's bad, because there's sister-support for keeping on doing it. 

Damn, I hope these girls rebel, and good! 

ETA Career day in the sister's house (I'm so confused)

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ETA here's where she gets some of the clothes, per an insta reply (I'm amazed, they do age-appropriate clothes and non-cosplay too!)

https://www.bluedovekids.com/

Edited October 29, 2017 by Lurky

[fundiefun]

I love Matilda Jane and baby girls boutique clothing but they are functional and soft fabrics these look so uncomfortable and not practical.

I'm sorry but these kids look absolutely ridiculous for their age these clothes seem more suitable for toddlers for a Christmas photo especially if their peers don't dress this way I know up here in the midwest if I dressed my daughter like this it would turn more than a few heads. 

[nastyhobbitses]

31 minutes ago, Lurky said:

ETA here's where she gets some of the clothes, per an insta reply (I'm amazed, they do age-appropriate clothes and non-cosplay too

The stuff on this site actually looks like nice, appropriate clothing for children. I think the crayon dress is my favorite!