Married at First Sight alum Jamie Otis took some recommendation from Taylor Swift to assist her daughter take care of a bully.
The MAFS star, 39, posted a candy TikTok with Henley Grace, 8, on Thursday, August 28, the place the mother and daughter duo lip synced to Swift’s 2019 observe “I Forgot That You Existed” as a approach for Jamie to “educate [her] daughter the best way to take care of bullies / haters.”
Within the caption, Jamie elaborated on Henley Grace — whom the household name “Gracie” — just lately coming to her with issues over one other scholar singling her out in entrance of their entire class.
“My daughter was in tears bc there’s a woman who doesn’t like her,” she defined. “This woman advised her (in entrance of everybody) that she ‘hates’ that she has to take a seat subsequent to her.”
Jamie then admitted, “At first I needed to scream for my daughter and inform her that little woman is only a meanie…however I saved my composure & calmly stated, ‘That’s okay. Not everybody goes to love you. It is best to nonetheless be good to her, however you possibly can politely keep away from her. Spend time with the children who do such as you!’ Henley cried [and said] ‘However she stated I’m annoying & loud in entrance of everybody! I wasn’t attempting to be mommy!’”
Henley Grace joined her mother to lip sync some key traces from “I Forgot That You Existed” as a option to put her bullying drawback in context. They sang: “I forgot that you simply existed / And I believed that it could kill me, nevertheless it didn’t / And it was so good.”
When a follower commented that “there’s a music for all the pieces,” Jamie replied: “Taylor by no means fails.”
Different commenters praised Jamie’s calming and well mannered strategy to a really painful expertise, along with providing their very own recommendation on the best way to take care of bullying.
“It’s so laborious for women to maintain their spark,” one fan wrote. “Normally faculty manages to boring it someplace alongside the best way. Between the bullying, and the woman drama it’s actually laborious. Hope she retains hers good and proud! You’re doing the correct factor to assist her preserve it!! ✨ Good job momma!”
One other viewer replied, “Elevating mental, sort, and blissful folks is so essential. It’s laborious work bc the dad and mom have to be actively concerned. Thanks for loving your youngsters. They’re your present to the universe.”
Jamie and her husband Doug Hehner met on the primary season of MAFS and tied the knot in March 2014. They share Henley Grace, son Hendrix Douglas, 5, and twins Hawkins Tyler and Huxley James, 11 months.
Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner in March 2019. Taylor Hill/Getty Photographs
Following the dual’s arrival in September 2024, Jamie candidly admitted it was tough to inform the newborns aside. Throughout a YouTube vlog, Jamie held Hawkins on her lap and identified just a few differentiating options.
“There’s a pair actually good options,” Jamie defined in January. “First issues first is that this little boy’s nostril. He has a bit crimson spot proper there, and that’s our greatest figuring out issue.”
Her husband Doug, 41, identified that Huxley’s “elvish” ears come to “extra of some extent than Hawkins,” in addition to noticing a crimson mark on the again of one in every of Huxley’s legs.
“These are the one methods we are able to inform them aside,” Jamie confessed. “Particularly as a result of [Hawkins] is chunking up good and good. He was smaller for a very long time however now he’s getting a bit chubbier. Now his face is about as spherical as Huxley’s, so it’s actually laborious to inform them aside. They’re very similar.”
The previous Married at First Sight: The First 12 months solid member beforehand spoke out in Might to sentence folks’s “sensitized” reactions to breastfeeding in public.
“The quantity of people that get offended by a breastfeeding mother will eternally shock me,” she admitted by way of Instagram. “A lady FEEDING her child — nonetheless she will — must be supported. No questions.”
Relationships are laborious work — one thing Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner have freely admitted all through their marriage. The couple have been matched and married through the first season of Married at First Sight in 2014. Otis had beforehand looked for love throughout season 16 of The Bachelor in 2012 and on season 3 of Bachelor Pad. […]
Jamie defined that she was combo-feeding the twins, which concerned the guardian giving their new child a mixture of pure breast milk and toddler method.
“Breastfeeding is essentially the most pure and primitive option to care to your toddler, however but I assure I’ll get feedback about how inappropriate it’s to pump my breastmilk out in automobile line choose up or nurse my twin infants in public,” she complained. “And truthfully, the rationale society feels so strongly a couple of girl not breastfeeding in entrance of individuals is bc they don’t see sufficient of it. 100 years in the past there could be no difficulty in any respect bc that’s was the one approach to supply vitamins to your child.”
After sharing her personal breastfeeding expertise, Jamie expressed hope that her message would “desensitize essentially the most primitive, pure approach a mommy can feed her child.”
