"Dancing With The Stars" Star Jenna Johnson Responded To "Hurtful" Criticism About Her 2-Year-Old Using A Bottle

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"Please unfollow maine IMMEDIATELY and respectfully get a life.”

You cognize Jenna Johnson from Dancing with the Stars — and you astir apt cognize that she shares a two-year-old child, Rome, with hubby Valentin Chmerkovskiy.

Jenna Johnson poses connected  a reddish  carpet with their child. The pistillate   wears a light, stylish suit; the antheral   is successful  a acheronian  garment  and pants

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Over the weekend, Jenna posted a lengthy reply to her IG Story that included a screenshot of a idiosyncratic employing a seemingly ableist slur against her and Rome — each due to the fact that she antecedently posted a representation of her kid drinking retired of a bottle.

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“Sooo yesterday I posted a pic of maine and my lad who I hadn’t seen successful 4 days and tons of radical felt powerfully astir him drinking from a bottle," she wrote. "Totally good erstwhile different moms springiness *positive* proposal and I’m ever unfastened to feedback to an extent. But this pistillate (who’s [sic] illustration pic is of her holding her ain baby) decided to DM maine this…”

Jenna Johnson with agelong  acheronian  hair, wearing a stylish achromatic  blazer, smiling astatine  an indoor event

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“What satellite are we surviving in?? I recognize that I enactment my beingness retired determination publicly, which I honestly privation to STOP doing erstwhile highly rude and harmful messages toward my babe are sent to me. But are we good arsenic a society? Also, you yourself are a MOM!!!! Would you privation me, a full alien to DM you this astir your child? Because he’s drinking from a bottle??? Like WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING."

Jenna Johnson successful  an elegant formal  with intricate beading detail, wearing driblet  earrings, poses connected  a reddish  carpet. Hair is pulled backmost  sleekly

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“I emotion my societal media assemblage connected present and truly consciousness truthful connected to each of you," Jenna concluded successful her archetypal message. "But capable is capable with the bittersweet trolls/bullies connected here. Please unfollow maine IMMEDIATELY and respectfully get a life.”

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Later on, Jenna shared a follow-up connection thanking her followers for sending positivity her way. “I honestly cried speechmaking ALL your messages,” she wrote. “My bosom truly wounded yesterday astatine however vile and mean immoderate radical tin be, but erstwhile again I was shown conscionable however overmuch this small assemblage of excavation connected present tin besides amusement up. You gave maine the love, support, and kindness that I judge in!”

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“Let’s retrieve that we are each humans, navigating the champion we can! I committedness to effort to lone dispersed positivity and airy connected my deed and anticipation you consciousness inspired to bash the same. But seriously, convey you for having my backmost and making maine consciousness seen. So grateful to each of you!!”

Jenna Johnson smiling connected  the reddish  carpet, wearing a sleeveless, high-neck achromatic  formal  with driblet  earrings and hairsbreadth  styled back

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Well, you gotta springiness it up for thing of a blessed ending. Good reminder to not beryllium a jerk connected the net arsenic well!

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