Influencer Courtney Adamo addresses trolls who claim that her social media posts are ‘fake’ 

She is the Byron Bay-based mum that has close to 280k followers on Instagram. 

And while her social media posts show sunny days and well-behaved children, Courtney Adamo insists that her ‘life’s not perfect’. 

Appearing in Stellar Magazine on Saturday, the mum-of-five explained that she’s received a lot of criticism over her posts in the past but admits that they don’t show the whole picture. 

‘I understand the criticism that I only put up photos of a pretty house and well-dressed children, and everything looks sunny all the time,’ she said.

‘But I only think to get my phone out and take a photo when a moment is happy. I’m not thinking, “My kids are fighting or the dog just pooed on the floor in the kitchen, I’m going to take a photo of this.”‘

The entrepreneur went on to say that she is often ‘attacked’ for ‘looking perfect’, but she insists that she isn’t trying to pretend to be anything she is not.  

‘I’m not trying to put out a falsely perfect image,’ she said. 

‘My life isn’t perfect. My kids drive me crazy. It’s not always easy, but I am really happy. I shouldn’t be punished for that.’ 

After spending 12 years in London in 2015 Courtney and her husband Michael decided to pack up the family and embark on an 18-month gap year. 

The family eventually settled in their current hometown of Bangalow on the New South Wales north coast. 

She and Michael, share children Easton, 15, Quin, 13, Ivy, 11, Marlow, 7, and Wilkie, 3. 

Courtney founded the online parenting portal Babyccino back in the early 2000s and has since become an Instagram influencer. 

To read Courtney’s full interview, see Sunday’s issue of Stellar Magazine.