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star Alice Vanderpump has responded to trolls questioning her decision to combi feed her newborn son.
Alice, 24, and her MIC star husband Sam, 28, welcomed their first child together last month and this week Alice gave an update on life as a mum to her 238k followers.
She shared a video of herself bottlefeeding her son as she chatted about their first month.
Some followers were quick to comment about Alice's choice to bottlefeed in the video with one top comment reading: 'Can I ask why you chose to bottle feed?'
As others slammed the poster for asking the question, Alice then replied calmly explaining why she has chosen to combination feed her son.
'Its breast milk and i still breast feed too,' she pointed out. 'I dont use formula. He had a tongue tie and destroyed my nipples. Now i feel as though he doesnt get enough milk when hes just fed on the breast.'
Made In Chelsea star Alice Vanderpump has responded to trolls questionning why she isn't breastfeeding her newborn son
The video saw Alice gush about her life-changing first month with Marmaduke, who she and Sam call Duke, but she admitted motherhood has also come with 'severe anxiety.'
'Where has the time gone, I feel like you have doubled in size. I feel like life has not started until you came into it,' she told her son as he fed.
'I can't explain the love for your child, I've really learned the definition of unconditional,' Alice continued but cautioned:
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'No one tells you about the anxiety as well, I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm worried he's dead. It's so morbid.'
'Or the fear of someone holding him, that stresses me out. If I'm not seeing him if I'm in the other room I have severe anxiety that I'm not around him. It's just so scary, it's so beautiful but so scary.'
The couple announced Marmaduke's birth to Hello! magazine, revealing their son's name was a favourite of Sam’s late father, Mark, who died in 2018 at the age of 59.
Alice gave birth at the Kensington Wing of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Monday, 9 February.
Sam and Alice married in an intimate ceremony at Chelsea Registry Office just before .
Their wedding came after a hugely difficult period, during which he became seriously ill with in late 2024, developing and suffering liver and kidney failure.
Alice, 24, and her MIC star husband Sam, 28, welcomed their first child together last month and this week Alice gave an update on life as a mum to her 238k TikTok followers (pictured while announcing their pregnancy in September)
Some followers were quick to comment about Alice's choice to bottlefeed in the video. 'Its breast milk and i still breast feed too,' she said. 'He had a tongue tie and destroyed my nipples'
The TV personality was later diagnosed with irreversible end-stage liver disease and is now on the transplant waiting list.
In spite of the uncertainty, Sam and Alice chose to prioritise love and decided to marry while he was well enough, ahead of welcoming their baby boy.
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He told HELLO! Magazine: 'I was struggling emotionally in the weeks leading up to the wedding because of everything going on with my health. But I have been so over the moon happy these past few days.'
The wedding was arranged within four weeks and was followed by a dinner at The Lanesborough.
The couple opted for a low-key approach, choosing Alice's dress together and deciding against traditional elements such as a first dance and extended speeches.
The newlyweds plan to host a larger celebration in May 2027, after welcoming their son.
Sam popped the question to Alice in March, after he was hospitalised in January with liver and kidney failure that developed into life-threatening sepsis.
He was born with the rare conditions congenital hepatic fibrosis of the liver and polycystic kidney disease, but they lay dormant until last December, when his organs began shutting down.
The couple announced Marmaduke's birth to Hello! magazine, revealing their son's name w as a favourite of Sam’s late father, Mark, who died in 2018 at the age of 59
In an episode of the We Need To Talk podcast with Paul C Brunson, Sam described how he later discovered the devastating truth behind his symptoms, soon after learning Alice was pregnant.
The star candidly revealed how he feared he would die before getting to meet his son after first being told he needed a liver transplant to save his life.
Sam, whose father passed away seven years ago, went on to explain how his thoughts went straight to his unborn child, saying: 'I always get sad when I think my dad's never going to see his grandchild.
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'To now start having that thing dawned on you. Am I going to see my child? That's terrifying.'
An original cast member of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and now star of her own show, Vanderpump Rules, Lisa, 65, was the sister of Sam's father, businessman and DJ Mark Vanderpump.
Sam and Alice announced they were expecting a baby boy in September, due on Valentine's Day, with the couple already having picked out his name.
Sam said: 'We have a name, it's Marmaduke. My dad is no longer with us, but he always wanted to call my brother "Duke" because he believed my brother would one day become Prime Minister, Duke Vanderpump.
'I really love the name. My mum didn't like it, so my brother was named Jack. My dad still had the last laugh by giving him the middle name Daniels.
'I think Marmaduke is fantastic, and we'll call him Duke for short. There's a great Downton Abbey scene where Maggie Smith and her daughter discuss a man named Marmaduke, which made us love it even more.'
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