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almond mom
[ ah-muhnd mom or am-uhnd mom ]
What does almond mom mean?
An almond mom is a parent who follows incredibly strict or dangerously unhealthy eating habits and attempts to force them on their children.
The term almond mom is most often applied to mothers or female caregivers, but the term could apply to any person with a very strict or dangerous diet that they want to force onto their children.
An almond mom’s diet is typically strict to the point of extreme, such as only allowing for small portions of foods low in calories. An almond mom may also approve of eating disorders or unsafe eating habits that are dangerous to a person’s health in the pursuit of maintaining a low weight. A common trait of the almond mom is that they will aggressively force these unsafe eating habits onto their children, which may even include shaming their children for being what they consider fat, no matter how much their children weigh.
Almond mom is almost always used as a negative term to criticize a person as endangering themselves and their families with poor nutrition and insufficient diets. The term is often used jokingly and hyperbolically to refer to parents obsessed with healthy nutrition.
There are three similar terms that describe parenting styles:
- crunchy mom: a mother who prefers natural solutions and shuns modern technology and medicine
- silky mom: a mother who practices a lenient parenting style that embraces modern technology, science, and convenience
- scrunchy mom: a mother who sometimes prefers modern technology and sometimes prefers natural options
Example: Our mom wasn’t an almond mom who kept us on unhealthy diets.
Where does almond mom come from?
The term almond mom emerged in late 2022 and early 2023. It seems to have been inspired by a viral video featuring a clip from an episode of the reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In the clip, Gigi Hadid, who has a strict diet due to her modeling career, tells her mother Yolanda that she is weak from hunger. Her mother tells her to eat a couple of almonds.
Almond mom became a popular term on TikTok in late 2022 and early 2023 as part of a trend in which users, often jokingly, depicted almond moms that have overly strict or dangerously unhealthy eating habits and force them on their children. Users often used the term to describe their own parents or people they know.
The term received further recognition in early 2023 after many social media users used it to criticize actress Gwyneth Paltrow, whose very strict diet was featured in a popular TikTok video at the time.
Examples of almond mom
Who uses almond mom?
Almond mom is a popular term on social media, especially TikTok. It is used to refer to parents that have unhealthy, strict diets that they force on their children.
if u guys want to lose weight come move into my house i have an almond mom so she will basically starve u <3
— venus :3 (@venusq_q) March 28, 2023
something to know about the children of almond moms is that every single one of us has been viciously yelled at for eating a banana because it’s “too much sugar”
— gigi spectre (@vaginaspektor) June 27, 2023
Eating snacks and watching Big Brother with my mom, made me realize how much she’s not an "almond mom" and always created an environment for me to feel safe eating anything i wanted :!
— casualhater (@ahater4ever) March 25, 2023
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