momfluencer
English
Etymology
Blend of mom + influencer, equivalent to mom + -fluencer.
Pronunciation
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Noun
momfluencer (plural momfluencers)
- (Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.
- 2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:
- Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.
- 2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:
- The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.
- 2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:
- And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.
- 2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:
- The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.
- 2025 May 7, Jessica Grose, “MAGA Beauty Is Built to Go Viral”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 May 2025:
- [Nancy] Mace […] is easily clocked as just the kind of Republican woman who is ascendant in the Trump administration. The women’s hair is in Utah curls, long waves with straight ends, popularized by Mormon momfluencers.