Former mummy blogger Clemmie Hooper has been handed a caution order for a period of one-year following a midwifery misconduct hearing - four years after she engaged in trolling other influencers on a gossip forum.
The mother-of-four, 38, from Kent, once boasted 700,000 followers on Instagram and had partnered with brands such as Mothercare and Boden on sponsored posts.
But in 2019, Clemmie - who worked part-time as a midwife - came off social media after her account on Tattle Life, a website devoted to discussing influencers, was exposed.
Among the posts made under the Alice in Wanderlust psuedonym, was one accusing Black mummy blogger Candice Brathwaite of social climbing, being 'aggressive' and using her 'race as a weapon'.
Just two months before, Clemmie had invited Candice onto her podcast to discuss her traumatic birth experience and how she developed life-threatening sepsis following an emergency C-section.
Clemmie (centre) pictured with her daughters Anya Rose (right), Marnie (left), Ottilie and Delilah (middle)
Following the Fitness To Practise Committee Substantive Hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which started on February 28, the panel's decision was announced today (March 7).
Earlier in the hearing, Clemmie had admitted to three of the charges facing her - that she made the comments in question, and that they had been intended to 'undermine or humiliate' their target.
She also accepted that elements of the posts were 'racially offensive and/or discriminatory', but maintains that she was unaware of this offence at the time.
The panel took into account some mitigating factors, including Clemmie's health at the time of making the posts, which was said to have clouded her objectivity.
It also considered positive testimonials with regards to her midwifery practice, her public apology, her reflection and insight into her conduct, and her 'evident remorse', as well as how she had been affected by reading a very large volume of negative comments about herself online.
Her self-removal from social media, and what the panel considered to be her negligible risk of repetition, were also considered mitigating factors.
In addition, the panel said it accepts that Clemmie was unaware that describing a Black woman as aggressive was a racial trope when writing the posts, and that she has since engaged in self-directed training and reading around equality and diversity.
Speaking to in 2021, Candice Brathwaite, said it had been 'painful' reading the posts on Tattle.
Mummy blogger and author Candice Braithwaite, who was described as 'aggressive' in one post, has described the posts as 'painful'
Describing how it was a 'knock to her confidence', the mother-of-two explained: 'I step into this arena as a minority, Syair Sdy you know.
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