Kristin Cavallari Fires Back At Haters Who Body-Shamed Her Sons
Kristin Cavallari posted a beach photo of her two young sons wearing matching bathing suits, but she didn’t expect any backlash. The former Hills star, who has three kids with Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, posted a photo of her two boys playing on the beach during the family’s Fourth of July celebration at an undisclosed location outside the United States. Cavallari’s sons have their backs to the camera in the photo.
Kristin responded to internet trolls who accused her sons, Camden Jack, 3, and Jax Wyatt, 2, of being too skinny. After dozens commented on her sons’ slim bodies, Kristin fired back on Instagram and promptly blocked the offenders.
“Yep, I starve my children,” Cavallari wrote. “Just blocked the most people I’ve ever blocked in my entire life. Happy 4th hahaha.”
Some of the users cited Kristin’s “very strict dietary lifestyle” and commented that her sons are “obviously nutritionally deficient.” Others commented that the photo was “sickening,” saying they could see the boys’ bones. Kristin Cavallari has already come under criticism for some of her controversial parenting practices, but even a doctor chimed in on her Instagram snap, saying the boys looked perfectly fine.
Most recently, Kristin’s recipe for homemade goat’s milk formula, which she fed to her sons and her baby daughter, Saylor, was criticized by some of her social media followers.
In her book, Balancing in Heels: My Journey to Health, Happiness, and Making It All Work, Kristin revealed that her family eats a diet that is free of GMOs. Cavallari also revealed that after she stopped breastfeeding her kids, she put them all on a homemade goat’s milk formula. Cavallari wrote that that goat’s milk is “the closest thing out there to human breast milk,” and she revealed that it’s more easily digested than cow’s or soy milk. Kristin explained that goat’s milk is commonly given to children in other countries and that she developed the formula recipe with her pediatrician to boost the milk’s nutritional value.
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Kristin Cavallari revealed that her homemade baby formula contains maple syrup, cod-liver oil, and powdered goat’s milk. While the recipe goes against the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendation that parents should not give babies any type of milk product until after age 1, Cavallari stands by it.
In her book, Kristin admitted that she has turned into “a psycho about reading every single ingredient label” and researching the ingredients she doesn’t recognize. She wrote that GMOs are linked to digestive problems, and she slammed the antibiotics, growth hormones, and other additives that are “being excessively pumped into the animals we are eating, which means we’re then consuming these excess antibiotics and hormones.” Cavallari also wrote that some processed foods actually contain toxic chemicals in order to keep them from spoiling, so she obviously doesn’t feed those types of foods to her kids.
“I truly believe that everything I need to flourish nutritionally is found in nature and that some stuff just shouldn’t be messed with, especially the food I’m putting in my body,” Cavallari wrote. “I really believe that my family’s infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.”
In addition to her staunch opinions about diet, Kristin Cavallari has spoken out about her anti-vaccine stance. During a 2014 appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Kristin told host Andy Cohen that she did not vaccinate her oldest son over fears of autism.
“At the end of the day, I’m just a mom,” Kristin told Cohen. “I’m trying to make the best decision for my kid. There are very scary statistics out there regarding what is in vaccines and what they cause — asthma, allergies, ear infections, all kinds of things. And we feel like we’re making the best decision for our kids.”
Kristin Cavallari was obviously being snarky when she posted that she starves her children. Based on the information in her book, it sounds like the former reality TV star takes healthy eating very seriously — with an emphasis on the eating. In fact, Cavallari told Parents magazine that food is the key to one of her biggest parenting tips.
“Have a snack ready before your child gets hungry, and a sippy cup filled before he’s thirsty,” Kristin said. “It keeps crying to a minimum and makes the day so much less stressful.”
Take a look at the video below to see Kristin Cavallari preparing one of her favorite family recipes.
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