Vogue Williams has called out trolls who described her baby as ugly following backlash over her plane seat “joke” earlier this week.
Vogue was criticised after discussing her fallout on a plane with a man who refused to swap seats with her. The 36-year-old told listeners of her podcast ‘Spencer and Vogue’ that she accidentally booked the wrong seats on her flight back home, separating her from her children. She got into a heated argument after the man seated beside her family refused to move.
The Howth native has received criticism online for her comments on the podcast, with many arguing she acted with a sense of entitlement. Vogue took to Instagram this morning to share an angry direct message she received, in which a troll said the baby was so ugly “they wouldn’t trade their plane seat for it either.”
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“Enough of this. I would never expect or demand anyone swap a seat with me. It was a joke that definitely didn’t land,” the former model told her followers.
The negative messages were sent after Vogue uploaded pictures to Instagram of her 4 month old son Otto. The troll used nasty language to describe the baby’s appearance and said they would have had the same reaction as the passenger if they were forced to sit next to it.
Vogue shares three children with husband Spencer Matthews. The family of five were returning from a holiday in Gibraltar when the incident occurred. Vogue alleges that the man snapped at her when she asked him to move, prompting her husband and a flight attendant to intervene.
“Literally, the airhostess came down and I was like, 'have you got another aisle seat for this f***ing particular piece of s***e over here?' He was awful,” Vogue recounted on the podcast.
The man eventually agreed to move and the family flew home safely. However, the incident has fuelled discussion online as to whether families have a right to sit together on airplanes if they haven’t preselected tickets.
The Independent's Lucy Thackray argued that Vogue should have taken into consideration that the man might have been a nervous flyer, rather than immediately becoming argumentative. She also wrote that parents can behave poorly in situations involving their children, but said that Vogue’s behaviour was wrong.
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