‘I don’t think you should let your followers name your child’: Skye Wheatley is trolled for asking fans on Instagram if she should call her baby son Wild or West
Former Big Brother star Skye Wheatley has drawn a mixed response after asking her Instagram followers to help choose a middle name for her baby son.
The 27-year-old influencer created an Instagram Story poll on Sunday asking fans to vote on whether they preferred ‘West’ or ‘Wild’.
By Monday, her account was flooded with comments from fans questioning why she was letting other people make such an important life decision.
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What will she choose? Former Big Brother star Skye Wheatley has drawn a mixed response after asking her Instagram followers to help choose a middle name for her baby son
Explaining her decision to choose son’s middle name via an Instagram poll, Skye said: ‘The name of [the baby] will be announced in the labour vlog, but we have to decide on a middle name so that’s why it’s taking so long.
‘Maybe you guys can help me decide on a middle name?’
Several fans said it wasn’t appropriate to outsource naming your child, with one writing: ‘I don’t think you should let your followers influence a name for your child. Just follow your heart.’
‘An influencer asking their followers to name their child,’ another commented with a string of crying-with-laughter emojis.
Poll: The influencer, 27, created an Instagram Story poll on Sunday asking fans to vote on whether they preferred ‘West’ or ‘Wild’. By Monday, her account was flooded with comments from fans questioning why she was letting other people make such an important life decision
A handful of users noted the unfortunate connotations of the word ‘wild’, which is associated with unruly behaviour and feral animals.
‘Please don’t five your baby the middle name Wild,’ one fan wrote. ‘West is really nice! Or what about a play on wild? Maybe like wydler?’
Another suggested: ‘How about Tom, Jack or Harry?’
Meanwhile, fellow influencer Belle Lucia proposed alternative spellings or variants, such as ‘Wyld’ and ‘Quest’.
However, the overwhelming response from fans was that it’s impossible to choose which middle name is better without knowing the first name.
However, Skye is delaying announcing this until she’s finished editing her labour vlog for her YouTube channel.
Apple of their eye: Skye and her boyfriend, tradesman Lachlan Waugh, announced the arrival of their second son on Friday. Pictured: the couple’s relatives meeting the baby in hospital
Skye and her boyfriend, tradesman Lachlan Waugh, announced the arrival of their second son on Friday.
The couple shared a series of photos to Instagram of their older son, two-year-old Forest, meeting his newborn brother in hospital.
Skye rose to fame on Big Brother Australia in 2014 and began dating Lachlan in 2017.
Going strong: Skye rose to fame on Big Brother Australia in 2014 and began dating Lachlan in 2017. They are pictured with their older son, two-year-old Forest