SNAP UNHAPPY
Amy Childs is brutally mum-shamed after fans spot ‘unfair’ detail in her family photo
The reality star has never even opened up about Ritchie's father's identity
AMY Childs found herself brutally mum-shamed after sharing a cute family picture to mark the New Year.
The Only Way Is Essex star is holidaying in Tenerife with daughter Polly, fiance Billy and their twins Billy and Milly.
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Her son Ritchie is also presumed to be on the sunshine break, but was noticeably absent from Amy's holiday snaps.
And despite the fact that Amy has spoken previously about her and Ritchie's dad's decision to keep him out of the spotlight, the comments section on the Instagram pictures were full of people shaming the star for excluding her son from the snaps.
In one , Amy held Milly, Billy held Billy and Polly stood in front, as Amy wrote: "Happy new year from mine to yours.
"2024 we are ready for you!"
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"Leaving one child out is so out of order. Poor baby," one person blasted in the comments.
"I thought you had four children?" another asked.
"'Richie move out the way we need to take a photo'," a third said.
"Poor Ritchie," someone else commented.
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"No hate at all, but doesn’t Richie get sad having to stand out of family photos?" another asked.
But others defended the reality star, insisting she is just complying with what her baby daddy wants.
"His dad doesn’t want him posted on social media," one wrote.
"She ain’t leaving him out she’s respecting the other parent's wishes!"
"She doesn’t leave him out at all .. they would have had the same picture with him then one for the socials without him," another insisted.
"His dad has made it clear he doesn’t want him on social media and she is respecting his decision.
"She has already explained this number of times … doesn’t mean his left out at all, he participates in everything they do!!"
But someone else wrote: "I’d be so annoyed I can’t post my son if I was you.
"I know you made an agreement about TOWIE and I can see the dad's reasons but surely you can post your child?"
Someone else wrote: "She doesn't put him on social media out of respect as his dad doesn't want him in the spotlight.
"That seems fair to me."
Ritchie was born in 2018 and Amy is said to have had him with a man who was also called Ritchie before reportedly splitting in 2019.
Back in 2020, Amy defended her decision to put daughter Polly on screen, but not Ritchie, after she was flooded with messages from fans demanding to know why he doesn't appear on her social media or in TV shows.
"Putting her on the show was obviously something I needed to think about very carefully, especially as I don't put Ritchie on social media," she told The Sun at the time.
"I want to clear this up too because I get a lot of messages on social media every single day saying 'why do you always put up pictures of your daughter and not your son or why is Polly on the show and not Ritchie'. 'Do you love your daughter more? etc'.
"I must get about 20 messages a day about Ritchie, but basically me and Ritchie's dad agreed together not to put Ritchie on social media or TOWIE.
"We won't put him on social media or TV until he is old enough to make that decision himself.
"He is a beautiful little boy, he is like a mini-me and of course I love him every bit as much as Polly. Polly has a different dad and I made a different decision with Polly and it is that simple.
"It was a hard decision because I don't want Ritchie or Polly to grow up and say why did you do that with me and not my brother and sister.
"All the constant messages questioning my love for Ritchie does get me down though because I love my children exactly the same.
"Having one in the public eye and one not doesn't reflect how much I love them. It is just different decisions based on different dads.
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"At the end of the day it's nobody else's business. They are my kids and I will bring them up the best way I chose but I would like to get that message out to try and explain the reason."
Amy's six-year-old daughter Polly's dad is her ex Bradley Wright - a builder who has a criminal record and has served two stints in jail and time in a Young Offender Institution.
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