Parenting influencer Karissa Collins has responded after a video displaying a number of of her 11 youngsters hitting her stomach within the midst of a miscarriage sparked backlash.
“I apologize. Once I posted that video, what was on different folks’s minds was not on my thoughts in any respect,” Collins, 41, stated in a Thursday, July 17, TikTok video. “I by no means considered it that means. It was a cute second with me and my youngsters. I didn’t assume anybody would even watch it.”
Karissa introduced in a since-deleted video earlier in July that she and her husband, Mandrae Collins, have been anticipating their twelfth child. Days later, she revealed that she had suffered a missed miscarriage and wished to let the fetal tissue cross naturally with out medical intervention. On the identical time, Karissa uploaded a TikTok clip of a few of her youthful youngsters playfully smacking her stomach. (All the posts mentioning Karissa’s being pregnant announcement and miscarriage have since been deleted.)
“I don’t do clickbait. I don’t like controversy,” Karissa stated on Thursday, addressing the backlash to her stomach video. “I don’t publish offensive issues for followers. I don’t need followers like that. I’m not all a few following. I’m nearly sharing the message that God has given me, and the ministry that I’ve, which is that you may belief God along with your womb. … We encourage ladies to belief God with what number of youngsters he desires to present.”
The web creator additionally supplied context behind the now-viral video, claiming that her children have been “having enjoyable” and displaying off their very own stomachs after a household meal.
“I stated, ‘Y’all wish to see a giant stomach, let me present you my stomach.’ I’ve a giant stomach. I’ve additional chunk from being pregnant 15 occasions that I’m at the moment attempting to work off,” she defined. “I shared the video as a result of my children noticed my abdomen, and so they simply began laughing. They have been squeezing it like slime and Squishmallows. It was the funniest factor. I by no means wished to overlook that second of them discovering a lot pleasure in my stomach.”
In accordance with Karissa, her 4-year-old daughter did find yourself hitting her stomach “a bit of too exhausting.”
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“I did say ‘ow’ within the video, however they weren’t hurting me,” she careworn. “They weren’t hurting something within me.”
Elsewhere in her apology video, Karissa clapped again at on-line criticism of her massive household usually.
“When you haven’t had 11 youngsters, I don’t really feel like you might have the precise to say it’s inconceivable or that you may’t do it,” she stated. “I used to say that after I had 5 youngsters. … I had no concept that God had deliberate for a giant household for us. We merely imagine that we’re to dwell life of religion, and that youngsters are everlasting [and that] they’ve worth. A lot of worth.”
Karissa additional famous that she doesn’t perceive how sure social media customers can “degrade different households” by sharing on-line criticism.
“That’s referred to as clickbait, and it’s what it’s,” she stated. “I cannot name out on my platform. My platform is simply to share the messages that the Lord provides me and to share the blessings that he has given us, and to point out different ladies that it’s attainable to belief God and to be joyful and revel in motherhood.”
