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 monitor “I Forgot That You Existed” as a approach for Jamie to “educate [her] daughter methods to cope with bullies / haters.”
Within the caption, Jamie elaborated on Henley Grace — whom the household name “Gracie” — lately coming to her with issues over one other pupil singling her out in entrance of their complete class.
“My daughter was in tears bc there's a lady who doesn't like her,” she defined. “This woman instructed her (in entrance of everybody) that she ‘hates' that she has to sit down 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 mentioned, ‘That's okay. Not everybody goes to love you. You need 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 mentioned I'm annoying & loud in entrance of everybody! I wasn't making an attempt to be mommy!'”
Henley Grace joined her mother to lip sync some key strains from “I Forgot That You Existed” as a method to put her bullying downside in context. They sang: “I forgot that you simply existed / And I assumed 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 all the things,” 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 methods to cope with bullying.
“It's so exhausting for women to maintain their spark,” one fan wrote. “Often college manages to uninteresting it someplace alongside the way in which. Between the bullying, and the woman drama it's actually exhausting. Hope she retains hers good and proud! You're doing the best factor to assist her hold it!! ✨ Good job momma!”
One other viewer replied, “Elevating mental, type, and glad individuals is so crucial. It's exhausting work bc the dad and mom have to be actively concerned. Thanks for loving your kids. 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 Photos
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 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 somewhat purple 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 purple 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 somewhat chubbier. Now his face is about as spherical as Huxley's, so it's actually exhausting to inform them aside. They're very equivalent.”
The previous Married at First Sight: The First 12 months forged member beforehand spoke out in Could to sentence individuals's “sensitized” reactions to breastfeeding in public.
“The quantity of people that get offended by a breastfeeding mother will ceaselessly shock me,” she admitted by way of Instagram. “A girl FEEDING her child — nevertheless she will — 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 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 mother or father giving their new child a mixture of pure breast milk and toddler formulation.
“Breastfeeding is probably the most pure and primitive method to care on your toddler, however but I assure I'll get feedback about how inappropriate it's to pump my breastmilk out in automotive line choose up or nurse my twin infants in public,” she complained. “And actually, the explanation society feels so strongly a few 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 situation 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.”
