Taylor Selfridge is doubling down on her decision to take photos and videos of her and Cory Wharton’s daughter Maya during the three-year-old’s recent 18-day hospitalization, insisting that she wants to capture the moments so that Maya “will know how strong she was.”
As The Ashley previously told you, the Teen Mom star revealed to fans last week that Maya– who was born with a rare heart disease called tricuspid atresia and has undergone several heart surgeries in her lifetime– had recently experienced a health scare that required her to be life-flighted and ultimately hospitalized for 18 days.
In addition to sharing the terrifying details of what her daughter went through during that time, Taylor posted multiple videos and photos to social media that were taken during Maya’s hospitalization, including content that showed Maya being life-flighted to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
Cory– who also shares daughter Mila with Taylor, as well as daughter Ryder with Cheyenne Floyd– shared some of these photos and videos of Maya too.
However, it was Taylor who took to social media this week to defend her recent content after revealing that she had received some backlash from fans due to the images she chose to share with the public.
“ … people are like, ‘How could you take out your camera?’ First of all, I took a video when we were in the plane, because I was texting Cory pictures and videos of [Maya], because he’s like, ‘What the f**k happened?’” Taylor explained, referring to the fact that Cory was in Thailand filming The Challenge when Maya was first hospitalized. “I talked to him early in the day and I was like, ‘Hey, we’re in the hospital, I just want you to know, because I don’t want you to, like, freak out … .’”
She went on to tell fans that, within seven to eight hours, the situation with her daughter’s health escalated from Maya’s stomach hurting and doctors believing she may have a urinary tract infection (UTI), to Maya needing to be life-flighted. Taylor insisted that she was “sending stuff to [Cory] at that moment,” as he had yet to arrive in Texas. She also defended the photos and videos that showed Maya after she had been intubated, noting that Maya “was like that for a total of nine days” and “was just asleep” during that time.
Taylor– who, along with Cory, has posted similar content in the past– went on to explain to fans that another reason she chooses to document these moments is so that Maya will be able to look at them when she’s older and have a better understanding of what she went through as a young child.
“ … I’m always going to, like, make sure that I remember these moments– well, I always do, because I’m so traumatized,” Taylor said. “But when [Maya’s] older, like, I hope to God she don’t remember any of it, but I want her to know how strong she was and all the things she went through, because it’s more than most people will ever go through in their whole life.”
While Taylor doubled down on taking photos and videos of Maya amid her recent health scare, she didn’t explain why she then chose to share the content publicly, which seemed to be the main concern of those who criticized her (and Cory’s) posts.
Watch a clip from Taylor’s video below.
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6 Responses
Your kid, do whatever but those knife skills are making anxious!
I created an account to tell @Mick the thumbs down was an accident!
You did Not do this for your daughter, you 1000% did this for attention from strangers online! A toddler can not consent or comprehend the fallout of having their image forever plastered on line. I am shocked and deeply saddened there is no law protecting CHILDREN from this type of parenting.
Also, please stop posting the selfies with your eyes closed, like you are sleeping. We know it’s you taking a selfie, dumbass!
LOL
They have no notion of what “privacy” means. Nobody needs to see your child in the hospital. You can record it and then show it to her but they like the attention
How about taking videos and pictures to document Mayas strength but NOT posting them publicly? Now there’s an idea to protect this little girls privacy……which she deserves.