A mother embraced her baby after calling her “ugly” following her birth. However, she found herself being criticized by many for her seemingly, harsh words. Years later, the baby redeemed herself by becoming an “absolutely beautiful little lady!”
Lucy Baehr was like all mothers who expected their newborn babies to be cute. However, the Arkansas resident joked that her baby arrived looking entirely different, and her story went rival for how unique and hilarious it was.
For a long time, Baehr battled to conceive and experienced several losses before letting the idea go of expanding her family. The woman was already a parent to her daughter, Harper, and her stepson, Cole.
Hoping to fill the gaping hole in her life, in September 2019, she and her family got their third dog. However, fate decided to deal her a different outcome when in February 2020, she discovered she was pregnant with a daughter!
Baehr felt her newborn daughter, Reese, was a miracle, but the child’s arrival was something she wasn’t soon to forget. Recalling the first time she saw her baby girl, the mother of three said:
“I’m pretty sure I looked at my husband and was like, ‘She’s healthy?’”
Seeing how different her daughter looked, the new parent was surprised as she’d imagined giving birth to her lookalike. The Arkansas woman recalled how Reese had a huge nose, and when Harper held her younger sister for the first time, she also saw the striking difference.
As much as Baehr’s daughter was probably thrilled to be an older sibling, she couldn’t help but glance up at her mother and note how Reese looked “weird.” Her mother eased her conscience by stating that Harper wasn’t actually wrong in her outlook.
As most people know, it was taboo for mothers to admit their children weren’t good-looking, but Baehr bravely ventured down that path using TikTok. Speaking about a trend where people admitted that they expected a cute-looking newborn and got the opposite, the mother of three laughed when saying she’d won it hands down!The movement was dubbed “The Ugly Baby Challenge,” and the woman’s post led to massive attention on TikTok. At one point, her clip had been viewed by more than 22 million people, with her laughing as she revealed that some were saying her daughter looked like “Mr. Bean” or “Harry Potter’s” Dobby!
After going viral, in July 2021, Baehr appeared in a “Today” show clip where she shared her hilarious story. Many of the comments she got from her TikTik followers were clean fun, with one saying Reese looked “like a villager.”..CONTINUE READING