Parenting should come with a warning. Once you welcome your little bundle of joy, you will open yourself up to people criticizing your every move. Celebrity parents tend to face even more scrutiny, which can sometimes get ugly – just ask Paris Hilton! Rumer Willis and partner Derek Richard Thomas made one such parenting decision that many people expressed different opinions about.
The Sorority Row actress shared a picture of herself and Thomas getting dressed up for a night out. “Mom & Dad’s Night Out (Unless We Brought Lou),” she captioned it, referring to her six-month-old baby Louetta “Lou.”
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Rumer Willis and Derek Richard Thomas at the God’s True Cashmere x Nick Fouquet Collaboration Launch at Just One Eye on October 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California (Photo by Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images)
In the photo, Willis and Thomas are wearing matching white shirts and black pants. His long brown hair hangs loosely to his shoulders while her blonde hair is tied up in a bun. The two attended Just One Eye’s God’s True Cashmere x Nick Fouquet collaboration launch on Wednesday night and looked amazing! But apparently people were divided over whether they should have brought their baby with them on their date night.
“Yessir! We’re still bringing our kid too,” one person wrote. Another parent said, “Haha of course! ❤️ It’s hard to leave, they’re so little!”
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However, others disagreed. “Then it’s not a mom and dad night,” one person stressed, while another wrote: “Agreed.”
Another person wrote a note of support: “Beautiful you deserve a night out ❤️.” So true! Leaving your baby alone for an evening can be difficult (especially if you’re breastfeeding!), and no parent should feel bad if they decide to bring their little one along. Or if they decide to leave the baby with a babysitter! As parents, having an evening out is special and rare, and we should all be able to decide for ourselves how we go about it.
This isn’t the first time mom shamers have come for the model. Earlier this month, Willis recommended some expensive baby items to The Strategist, and people criticized her decisions and herself as a person. The “House Bunny” star responded to the attack, writing in part: “Whether you like me or not or think I’ve accomplished something in my life or not… I’m just a human being with feelings.”
She added: “Attacking me is… I don’t know, I guess I just want to say that I have feelings. I am a sensitive person. I would really appreciate it if you wouldn’t be so mean or mean to me and give me the space to be a person who has worked, done things and achieved certain things in my opinion. I’m really proud on my life.”
The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” actress also shared a photo of her little girl and Thomas and wrote, “My life is a gift, I have never been happier or more in love. “I have the most wonderful daughter, mine exceeds your wildest dreams. And my story is just beginning…” You tell them, girl!
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