Alternative forms

• Instamum (UK)

Etymology

Blend of Instagram +‎ momCategory:English blends#INSTAMOM.

Noun

Instamom (plural Instamoms)Category:English lemmas#INSTAMOMCategory:English nouns#INSTAMOMCategory:English countable nouns#INSTAMOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSTAMOMCategory:Pages with entries#INSTAMOMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#INSTAMOM

1. (informalCategory:English informal terms#INSTAMOM) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child or children or motherhood in general.

   Coordinate term: Instadad

   Hypernym: sharent

   • 2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:
   • 2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You‎, unnumbered page:

     My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.

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   • 2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences‎, page 181:

     The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.

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