Mom told she 'looked tired' has the best response

“I work my tail off as both a mom and employee,” she wrote. December 29, 2020, 5:30 PM• 4 min readWhen an online troll told Melanie Borden she “looked tired,” she didn’t get insulted. Instead, she adopted the critique as a “badge of honor.”Borden, a marketing executive for a luxury auto group, is also a mom of two daughters aged 5 and 7. In a now-viral LinkedIn post she wrote in part, “Yes I am tired. On behalf of everyone everywhere worldwide we are all tired from 2020. Especially working parents.”Borden told “Good Morning America,” “I felt that sharing this message was really important for working moms and to shed light on a troll for trying to make me feel bad for how I look. As moms, we are already so hard on ourselves.”In her post, which Borden told “GMA” she received hundreds of messages about, the New Jersey mom called her kids her number-one priority.”We are doing virtual school again for the second time around this year,” she wrote. “Plus the normal parent things outside of a global pandemic like being woken up at night, sick kids, etc. I am very proud of looking tired, I work my tail…
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