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Instamom
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instamom insta-mom
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Alternative forms
en Instamum UK
Etymology
en Instagram mom.
Noun
en informal A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child or children or motherhood in general.
en Instadad
en sharent
en Hayley Krischer Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/meet-the-instamom-a-stage-mother-for-social-media.html The New York Times 14 November 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20251002230839/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/meet-the-instamom-a-stage-mother-for-social-media.html 2 October 2025
en 2019 Leslie Anne Bruce You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You https://www.google.ca/books/edition/You_Are_a_F_cking_Awesome_Mom/GsaCDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22instamom+photos%22&pg=PT73 unnumbered 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.
en 2021 Enes Emre Başar; Pınar Bacaksız Arzu Kalafat Çat Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Paradigms_within_the_Communication_S/dnU_EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22instamoms%22&pg=PA181 181 The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.
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Related terms
en momfluencer mumfluencer mommy blogger
en Instagram Parents