Coco Rocha Recalls the 'Out of Hand' Comments She Received for Feeding Her Kids Formula

Photo: Matthew Priestley

Coco Rochais letting unsolicited parenting criticism roll right off her back.

“I breastfed both kids for four months, andeach time, my milk got low. I posted on my Instagram about getting formula delivered, and people started commenting, ‘How dare you?’ ‘You’re lazy!’ It was out of hand,” Rocha recalled.

“I thought, ‘I don’t need to explain myself to you.’ It was the first time Irealized mom-shaming was a thing,” she continued. “Sometimes I laugh it off. Or I cry. Or I block and delete. It depends on how tired I am.”

Coco Rocha.Matthew Priestley

Coco Rocha

While Rocha revealed she “got spanked” and “grounded for two months at a time” as a child, she doesn’t extend that same discipline technique to her own daughter — in fact, punishing her at all is difficult enough as it is.

“I thought I’d discipline Ioni strongly, too, but just putting herin the corner is the saddest, most upsettingthing,” she toldParents. “Whenever I say, ‘Ioni, if you don’t listen, I’ll put you in the corner,’ I ask myself, ‘Why did I say that? Now I have to follow through.’ She won’t stay, so I sit with her and we wait it out together.”

Coco Rocha, son Iver and daughter Ioni coverParentsmagazine.Matthew Priestley

Coco Rocha, son Iver and daughter Ioni coverParentsmagazine

RELATED VIDEO: Emily Maynard Johnson Admits She Was Ashamed to Stop Breastfeeding Her Second Son Early

Taking time for herself is one thing, but for Rocha, “it hurts” when she travels for work and can’t take her children along with her.

source: people.com