Helen Flanagan mum-shamed over birthday 'cigarette smoking' video
Topics: Helen Flanagan, Celebrity, Health, Instagram, Social media
Poppy Bilderbeck
Featured Image Credit: Instagram/@hjgflanagan
Topics: Helen Flanagan, Celebrity, Health, Instagram, Social media
Some people are flooding to social media to criticise Helen Flanagan over her birthday Instagram post.
The former Coronation Street actor has leapt on a TikTok trend in a recent post to Instagram to mark her birthday.
Born on 7 August, 1990, it was Flanagan's 33rd birthday yesterday - however, some of her followers took to her post in condemnation rather than celebration of the mum-of-three. Catch a look at the post here:
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Flanagan shared a video of herself with her pink, cherry-topped birthday cake to her Instagram profile, where she can be seen lighting a candle in her mouth with a lighter, as if the candle is a cigarette.
Flanagan then removes the candle from her mouth and sticks it in the cake - iced with the words, 'Thirty-three and thriving' - before blowing it out and smiling at the camera.
Flanagan may simply be jumping on a TikTok trend, the 'birthday smoking candle trend' with over 100 million views on the social media platform, however, some of her Instagram followers are not amused.
One user commented: "I love you @hjgflanagan but a smoking action is not ok and influential in a negative way. Happy birthday though. Hope you have the best day."
"Oh god Helen stop being so desperate …." Another added as a third wrote: "Who lights a candle like that strange and weird."
However, others were quick to leap to the soap star's defence.
"Same people bashing her for lighting a ‘candle’ are the same reason there is ‘Do Not Drink’ on bleach bottles… happy birrrfffdayyyy Helen," a user argued.
A second said: "Happy birthday. If you can’t be extra on your birthday then what’s the point ?? #f**kthehaters."
And a final resolved: "Oh bore off she’s not influential to anyone, if your stupid enough to smoke a candle after watching this you have issues."
Sadly, it's not the first time Flanagan has been subject to mum-shaming, as the 33-year-old received nasty comments over a video she shared of her and her kids on holiday in Barbados, Caribbean.
Another time saw Flanagan receive shade after one of her children threw a tantrum in a restaurant, however the actor hit back at the mum-shaming.
In a post to Instagram, she said: "I’ve got two children and I know what babies can be like and the tantrums and stuff, but when I’m saying he screamed the restaurant down yesterday - he just screamed and screamed.
"There was no consoling him at all, he literally just screamed the whole restaurant down.
"It was a really, really, really busy restaurant - I could feel there was a table, just sensed it.
"This is my third child - I don’t think they were being that nice to be honest about my parenting, even though I was really trying my best to console Charlie."
Tyla has contacted Helen Flanagan's representatives for comment.