Married at First Sight alum Jamie Otis took some recommendation from Taylor Swift to assist her daughter cope with 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 “train [her] daughter the right way to cope with bullies / haters.”
Within the caption, Jamie elaborated on Henley Grace — whom the household name “Gracie” — lately coming to her with considerations over one other scholar singling her out in entrance of their complete class.
“My daughter was in tears bc there’s a woman who doesn’t like her,” she defined. “This lady instructed her (in entrance of everybody) that she ‘hates’ that she has to take a seat subsequent to her.”
Jamie then admitted, “At first I wished to scream for my daughter and inform her that little lady is only a meanie…however I saved my composure & calmly mentioned, ‘That’s okay. Not everybody goes to love you. You must nonetheless be good to her, however you may politely keep away from her. Spend time with the youngsters who do such as you!’ Henley cried [and said] ‘However she mentioned 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 solution to put her bullying downside in context. They sang: “I forgot that you just existed / And I believed that it might kill me, but it surely didn’t / And it was so good.”
When a follower commented that “there’s a music for every part,” Jamie replied: “Taylor by no means fails.”
Different commenters praised Jamie’s calming and well mannered method to a really painful expertise, along with providing their very own recommendation on the right way to cope with bullying.
“It’s so exhausting for ladies to maintain their spark,” one fan wrote. “Normally college manages to uninteresting it someplace alongside the way in which. Between the bullying, and the lady drama it’s actually exhausting. Hope she retains hers good and proud! You’re doing the correct factor to assist her maintain it!! ✨ Good job momma!”
One other viewer replied, “Elevating mental, variety, and blissful individuals is so crucial. It’s exhausting work bc the mother and father should be actively concerned. Thanks for loving your youngsters. They’re your reward 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 Pictures
Following the dual’s arrival in September 2024, Jamie candidly admitted it was troublesome to inform the newborns aside. Throughout a YouTube vlog, Jamie held Hawkins on her lap and identified a couple of 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 of 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 all Huxley’s legs.
“These are the one methods we will 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 of chubbier. Now his face is about as spherical as Huxley’s, so it’s actually exhausting to inform them aside. They’re very an identical.”
The previous Married at First Sight: The First Yr solid member beforehand spoke out in Might to sentence individuals’s “sensitized” reactions to breastfeeding in public.
“The quantity of people that get offended by a breastfeeding mother will without end shock me,” she admitted through Instagram. “A lady FEEDING her child — nevertheless she will be able to — ought to be supported. No questions.”
Relationships are exhausting work — one thing Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner have freely admitted all through their marriage. The couple had 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 father or mother giving their new child a mixture of pure breast milk and toddler components.
“Breastfeeding is probably the most pure and primitive solution to care on your toddler, however but I assure I’ll get feedback about how inappropriate it’s to pump my breastmilk out in automobile line decide up or nurse my twin infants in public,” she complained. “And truthfully, the explanation society feels so strongly a few lady 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 offer vitamins on your child.”
After sharing her personal breastfeeding expertise, Jamie expressed hope that her message would “desensitize probably the most primitive, pure approach a mommy can feed her child.”
