Mandy Teefey is taking no s**t!
Just a week after fans came after Selena Gomez‘s mom for what she said was a total light-hearted post, she’s once again defending herself. On Instagram Friday, she responded to a comment of a hater telling her she’d been “tearing down” her daughters Selly and Gracie Teefey. The commenter also suggested she’d been neglecting her mental health.
She wrote in response to the comment in a now-deleted post:
“Thank you for explaining the mental health concerns for my family. I haven’t spent my entire life and every dime I have made to help make change for people with mental health. I have lost many, many loved ones to the end of the battle. I have fought these internal wars you speak of, I have survived my mental health struggles since I was 14 yrs old.”
She continued:
“You have zero right to tell me how to live my life or how to handle my war zones. No one parents perfectly, and people judge people all day on their choices so you can think I’m a bad parent. You aren’t here. You weren’t raised by me and clearly anyone who hates on another human is the one who needs to reflect.”
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Mandy also slammed the commenter, saying she doesn’t “spend [her] days judging and hating people or their choices online”:
“I spend my days living, loving and fighting for people without a voice or support. So don’t breakdown how I need to be as a complete stranger and assume I disregard my own child’s world. What have you done today to make someone’s day better? Ask yourself that, and if nothing, go do that. I’m not the problem. Hate is.”
Mic drop!! She continued:
“Hate is just too far in any situation. I posted this because personally, I know who I am, I know how much I love and fight for my children and that isn’t seen because I don’t need to be validated as a parental influencer. [I would never] make other people feel bad for being misunderstood. But, to call me out when you can see my track record in the mental health space and knowing my family personally made sacrifices because of how hard Selena and I both fight to help people, you must step down, my friend. I am not going to breakdown what I have sacrificed for my efforts because I choose it. I don’t need empathy or a medal. But what I will do is say when you take time to make people feel bad for their choices and feel righteous enough to pass judgment, I will give unsolicited advice.”
She then gave the social media user some alternatives to spending time online:
“Take that energy and do positive … This is life. There is a lifeline in the other side of that photo that you decide to attack so casually. I have built walls to protect myself, but if you do it to me, you are doing it to people I fight for, and that is not OK. Unfollow, stop the hate. Do something good with that energy. But being shitty is so much easier and selfish. Spread some support. Release that anger in your heart. It’s all noise and unproductive.”
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For resources on mental health, visit https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help.
[Image via Selena Gomez/Mandy Teefey/Instagram]