Maren Morris’ husband Ryan Hurd says his wife is a “great mother” after she was embarrassed online for posting a photo of herself and her baby son lounging in a floating pool in a shallow lake.
“Motor-floatin ‘,” Morris, 30, captioned the photo on Twitter, which shows her holding 3-month-old Hayes Andrew as they lounged on a Funboy golf cart pool float. To make the mother-child moment even more adorable, Morris and Hayes wore matching Mott50 swimsuits.
“Where’s the baby’s life jacket?” A fan wrote on Twitter.
Hurd, 33, quickly came to the defense of the “My Church” singer, replying to critics with, “I would like to say that my wife generally doesn’t need me to defend her, but she is a great mother and my son.” unsafe on a float in 1 foot of water held by an adult with 5 people watching to take a picture. “
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Hurd continued, saying Hayes “has 2 Coast Guard approved life jackets that he wears.”
“Also, sometimes moms have a drink,” Hurd said of the canned drink in Morris’s hands. “Homegirl earned it.”
Hurd was not the only one to speak in support of the country singer. Several fans defended Morris saying, “Really? Leave the woman alone. Let her enjoy a cute photo and spend time with her baby! You can clearly see that it’s shallow water. Ffs.”
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“Most moms can look at this photo and know exactly what is going on in the photo. Do you think they really floated all day like this? Maybe it was a minute or two to take a super cute themed photo? Ffs. What I hate here, “wrote another user on Twitter.
Still, the reaction left Morris wanting to stop sharing sweet moments as a mother with his fans.
“Honestly, I get so much criticism about my motherhood from everything I post about Hayes, so I can stop posting photos of him. It’s bullshit, but it’s like where I am,” Morris tweeted.
Morris has since removed the photo, and all other Hayes photos, from his social media accounts.
In May Hurd talked about welcoming a baby with Morris in the midst of the pandemic.
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“It is a little bit more difficult because we really cannot have anyone to see our baby, but I feel that we are very blessed because we have avoided many difficulties that other artists have had to face, because we have not really had to cancel many shows,” he explains. . “We are really fortunate to be here learning to be a family of three and it has truly been an amazing time in our lives.”
Hurd and Morris were married in 2018, five years after they first met while co-writing a song for Tim McGraw. And Hurd was delighted to expand his family.
“You imagine what it will be like, and then it ends up happening, and it seems like you couldn’t imagine going back to just being the two of you,” says Hurd. “So we are very lucky to have him here and have them both healthy.”
