Instamom

See also: instamom and insta-mom

English

Alternative forms

• Instamum (UK)

Etymology

Blend of Instagram +‎ mom.

Noun

Instamom (plural Instamoms)

1. (informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child/children or motherhood in general.
   • 2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:
   • 2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You‎^[1], unnumbered page:

     My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.

   • 2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences‎^[2], page 181:

     The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Instamom.

Hypernyms

• sharent

Coordinate terms

• Instadad

Related terms

• momfluencer, mumfluencer, mommy blogger