What is an Almond Mom?

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A term made famous by Yolanda Hadid, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and mother to supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid, “Almond Mom” refers to the type of mother who sets their child up to be obsessed with food and their bodies in ways that are both toxic and harmful.

In this, the second episode of our Body Image series, we explore generational trauma in the context of diet culture, and take a deeper look at the wounds passed down from our grandmothers, to our mothers and in turn - to us. Many millennials feel very passionately that they want to be the ones to break this cycle, that we don’t want our kids to watch us starting a new diet every Monday, or never wearing a swimming costume or eating a biscuit without first apologising for it, and as relatively new mothers ourselves, this is something we feel deeply passionate about.

Thanks so much to our amazing guests who feature on this episode: Phillippa Diedrichs, Molly Forbes, Beth and Bev.

Molly’s books Every Body and Body Happy Kids are available now - get your copies here!

You can find The Body Happy Organisation’s free resources here: https://www.bodyhappyorg.com/start-here

Read more about Phillippa’s work at https://www.phillippadiedrichs.com/

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Simprove, the UK's number one gut health supplement, backed by
0:06.1	science and loved by thousands, including me. Anyone who follows me on Instagram will know I've
0:10.9	been taking Simprove for years and credited with improving so much of my physical health. It's
0:15.8	also been a non-negotiable for me during this pregnancy, but also for the years before it too. It really has.
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0:38.1	worked with them a few years ago and literally wore a dress solely made of toilet roll
0:42.4	strutting down your street in the middle of the day. Oh, and didn't you do something with a
0:47.6	toilet in the middle of the road? Yes, yes, I did. I actually bought a porcelain toilet and sat
0:52.7	on the loo in the middle of the road to raise awareness of gut health,
0:56.1	literally stopping traffic.
0:58.4	Can I just ask, were your trousers up or down around your ankles?
1:02.1	They were down now, as they have to be.
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1:27.9	your trousers down. We have a discount code for you to use. It's Delete 50 to get 50% of your
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1:43.3	A term made famous by Yolanda Hadid, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and mother to
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