Ireland Baldwin To Make Her Pregnancy ‘Private’ After Unwelcome Internet Advice

Model Ireland Baldwin is planning to stop sharing updates about her first pregnancy after unwanted advice from strangers on the Internet.

Although many fans have expressed support for the actor Alec Baldwin and actress Kim Basinger, one piece of unwarranted advice led to a health scare on what was supposed to be a relaxing day for the first-time mom.

Although many celebrities are having a blast at Coachella, the aspiring screenwriter and her boyfriend RAC took their dogs on a relaxing trip to the local fair. However, Ireland’s day was ruined when a stranger on the Internet warned her about her blood pressure.

Ireland took to her Instagram Stories to share a screenshot of a comment left by a woman who claimed that she works "in labor and delivery at the University of Washington.” The woman claimed, “I think you may be a little puffy due to preeclampsia. I can see your face and hang slightly swollen as well. I just want to make sure you’re OK.”

“If you have a headache, blurry vision or floaters, or all of a sudden have an increase in swelling in your hands [and] feet and face, call your doctor.”

The message spilled over into a second comment, which read, “No judgment or anything. I just want to help make sure [you’re] okay. If all is good, I’m glad.”

Ireland wrote in her Instagram Stories: “Women, moms, [and] ‘nurses’ like this are the people who ruin sharing your pregnancy on social media or at all. I hate people who go out of their way to [instill] fear in others. I hate unlicensed and unqualified people who diagnose people of bullsh*t over the Internet.”

“I don’t care if you think this is someone who is trying to be helpful… it isn’t. My hands aren’t swollen. My body is… pregnant,” she continued. “My cheeks and my face have been puffy my whole life. My blood pressure is normal. My blood work is normal. I’m fine. But this brings up something I’d like to mention…”

“*This person also went out of their way to comment on my Instagram photo in a since [deleted] comment saying ‘check your blood pressure!!!!!!!’ On a photo of me enjoying my f*cking day at a fair.”

Ireland then shared a photo of her blood pressure reading as she continued her message. “So naturally in a panic I run to go check my blood pressure because as someone who struggles with health anxiety, of course I listen to a random on Instagram who scared me… and here we are.”

She added, "I'm fine" at the bottom of the post as she showed that her blood pressure readings are normal.

The unwelcome comment on her Instagram post made her decide to keep the remainder of her pregnancy private from the public. “Not that I feel obligated to/like I’m so important and this is some grand announcement, but I’ve decided to keep the remainder of my pregnancy as private as possible as well as my daughter/her life and all of the things,” she continued.

“I shared tidbits here and there because I enjoyed connecting with people, feeling less alone at times, etc… but social media makes me miserable,” she admitted.

“You can only block so many frightening/judgmental/deranged/low lifes in a day. I completely respect and understand why people don’t share their kids now or their relationships or anything for that matter," she continued. "Instagram, Tik Tok, it’s all a toxic pit of nothingness.”

“Will consider posting on a private account and refocusing this account into my work/my sh*tposts/making people laugh.”

Even though her time at the fair seems to have been interrupted by the stressful comment, she still had some fun at the farm with her “weenie kids,” as she wrote in the caption of an Instagram carousel featuring her posing with her dogs.

Stephen Baldwin commented on the post, writing, “Praying for you every day and thank you for all the big smiles you are bringing to all of us on your most beautiful journey.”