Mrs Hinch says heartbreaking abuse of baby Ronnie from online trolls 'kills her'
Instagram cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch has opened up about the flurry of online abuse she has received from trolls.
The popular clean-fluencer, who shot to fame when she began sharing tips on how she gets her house spick and span on social media, exposed the latest of ‘vile’ messages from strangers, weeks after she broke down in tears over the nastiness.
A large majority of mean comments that Mrs Hinch (real name Sophie Hinchliffe) has received have been aimed at her four-month-old son, Ronnie.
Posting a screenshot of some recent abuse, Sophie showed that one followers had sent an article about a baby who was born without a skull along with a message reading, ‘Ur son looks like this Literally Ugliest thing.’
Sophie can be seen responding to the messages in the screen grab, writing back, ‘The young boy you’ve sent a picture of is beautiful.
‘My son is beautiful. You are vile.’
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Opening up about the impact the cruel targeting has on her, Sophie continued to write to her fans, ‘I hope you day has started better than mine. I’m going to keep exposing these kinds of awful people because I think it is wrong that there are no consequences for internet trolling and bullying.
‘I’m learning every day to become stronger towards it, even though people talking about my son absolutely kills me, but next time you message someone, they might be having the worst day and be unable to cope with this sort of thing.’
This comes weeks after the housework pro broke down in tears due to a trolling message which dubbed Ronnie 'ugly as f**k’.
Sobbing into the camera as she addressed her millions of fans, Sophie said, “Maybe I was stupid to think that no one would ever be so nasty about a baby, like who does that?
“I don't know what I’ve done so wrong to get stuff like that. I clean my house and no one else's. I earn some money from my Instagram.
“I'm not hurting anyone. No one deserves stuff like that. It's just an innocent little baby, my little boy. I don't know how people like that sleep, guys, I don’t.”
Caitlin is a Junior News Editor for Goodto.com, covering all things royal, celeb, lifestyle, food, and family. Having set her sights on becoming a magazine journalist when she was a child, Caitlin took on work experience stints at local papers and titles such as Cosmopolitan, Now, Reveal and Take a Break while studying for her Multimedia Journalism degree and has interviews with celebs, reality stars and the Archbishop of Canterbury under her belt (of course, she couldn't resist asking him about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry).
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