Moms are embarrassing to their children. It’s a fact of life. We’ll eventually say or do something that will embarrass our children. Just thank your lucky stars that you’re not a celebrity with cameras always near to catch you at your worst moments. Remember 2007? It was a bad year to be a celeb mom. It appeared that every mom living under the limelight was determined to embarrass herself and her children.

If it wasn’t during interviews dishing out dirt and family secrets, it was the paparazzi documenting them damaging property. We as the world could only look on in horror at all of their cringeworthy moments.

Of course, 2007 wasn’t the only year that celebrity moms embarrassed themselves and their children. There have been plenty of other family feuds that have unfolded before our eyes and made us gasp in horror over the years.

There is also Instagram, an app where all moms should be put under strict settings where their photos must be approved before posting to determine the level of embarrassment for their children. We cringe and cry for their kids while thanking God that no one is taking pictures of us embarrassing our children. Although, we have to admit it’s these embarrassing moments that make for good entertainment.

15 Chrissy Teigen & Dirty Sausages

She’s the queen of funny and she’s also a supermodel. Yet, did you know that Chrissy Teigan’s mom is also funny? For three hours Teigen documented her mother making sausage in her kitchen on Snapchat. The whole situation reminded Teigen of that time that Jerry and Kramer were also making sausage on ‘Seinfeld’. “Why is there sausage on my lights?” Teigen questioned in one clip.

Dirty jokes aside, we do wonder why the kitchen lights were chosen to drape the links over. While most of us would be embarrassed to showcase dirty sausage jokes on Snapchat for the whole world to watch, we have a feeling that Teigen will happily laugh it off. She hasn’t exactly shown us that she’s one to embarrass easily or feel shy. Don’t worry Chrissy we’re cringing for you for the day that Luna hears her mom making dirty jokes.

14 Tina Knowles Wants To Be Beyonce

Oh Tina, which embarrassing mother moment should we choose? We know that Beyoncé is still embarrassed that her mom dressed her during the beginning days of her career. Do you remember those matching outfits that included gimmicks such as saris and the American flag? Or, should we choose the time that Tina, mom of Beyoncé and Solange, posted a photo of Jay Z and Solange in the elevator.

It was just around the time that a different photo showed Solange and Jay Z fighting in the elevator. Then, there was the time she liked a comment about Jennifer Hudson’s voice being terrible on Twitter. Yet, our favorite has to be the time she had a photo shoot to look like her daughters. Because, unless it’s Halloween, holding photo shoots (for no obvious reason) to look just like your super famous daughters is as funny as it is creepy.

13 Brooke Shields Admitting She Hated Her Baby

“I didn’t even want to hold my baby.” What a harsh way to say "I had postpartum depression.” While we commend Brooke Shields for being open and honest about a tough subject for moms, couldn’t she have chosen a different set of words to recount the events of her depression? After all, her child will hear these comments later in life and they could definitely feel hurtful.

We know they’d hurt us if our mom said that. Then again this is a woman who talks about her own mother, as a ‘crazy alcoholic’ so having candor in interviews about her family is probably just one of her traits. She tells it like it is, but we only wonder what her daughter will have to say in a few years time. Will this be another Mommy Dearest?

12 Britney Spears 2007

Speaking of Mommy Dearest, we’re all waiting for Britney Spear’s two boys to pen a memoir about their famous mom when they’re older. It’s not that we think she’s a bad momma; we just want to know what happened in 2007. Do you remember 2007? We sure do, and Britney made us cringe with horror that year.

America’s beloved pop star had a meltdown that involved a bat and shaving her head. She displayed her angst for the whole world to see. She was a mom at that point. Her oldest would have just turned one. So, maybe she was just sleep deprived? Whatever the reason it felt so out of character for a pop star that inspired millions of girls to stay ‘pure and squeaky clean’. Maybe if it had been Courtney Love we wouldn’t have noticed, but seeing Britney act out, shocked us and kind of made us cry.

11 Kate Moss & ‘Baby Powder’

Let’s face it, Kate is a bad it girl who just get’s away with it. Rumors constantly swirl about her abuse of alcohol. And, it’s not like we haven’t seen countless images of her stumbling out of nightclubs or with a drink in her hand. Yet, she never faced a DUI or missed a day of work, so she never had anything to be sorry about.

That all changed the day ‘The Mirror’ posted a pic of Kate prepping neat lines of a white powder. The bad girl and mom was finally caught. Kate apologized, lost a few modeling contracts for a couple of months and laid low, perhaps at a rehab clinic. Eventually, all was forgiven and the model came back stronger than ever appearing in Burberry ads and even designing a line for Top Shop. She just made sure to only take pictures with baby powder.

10 Farrah Abrams Home Video

Kim Kardashian West made a home video and created an empire that also projected the career of her family members to new heights. Farrah Abrams, another reality star and mom created her own home video and remains a laughing stock, especially after the quick and drastic change to her looks. Everyone loves to hate her and her children will have to deal with that.

They’ll also have to deal with that home video for the rest of their lives too, because let’s face it nothing dies online; even tweets. Sure, there are adult film stars who are also moms, but they’re professionals paying the bills. When your mom is known for being a teen mom who made a home video for no obvious reason, that’s a cringe worthy moment that will make you want to be home-schooled the minute your friends in high school Google your mom’s name.

9 Sharon Osbourne’s X Factor

It’s hard to pick only one cringe worthy moment when it comes to Mrs. Osbourne. She’s married to a temperamental rock star that once bit a bat and she’s a lady who always says what she thinks, even when we wish she wouldn’t. She openly refers to her husband as a ‘dirty dog’ and her family have been battling addiction for decades.

Yet, perhaps one of her worst moments was the time that X Factor viewers thought she was drunk when she repeatedly forgot contestant Saara Aalto’s name. It was 2016 and the family was reportedly all clean and working hard on their respective careers. All was well, until that day when fans took to Twitter wondering what was wrong with Sharon. Fans were pretty upset with her unprofessional attitude at work that week and we’re pretty sure her children were hanging their heads low in shame… again.

8 Mariah Carey That NYE

Another star that acted unprofessional at work was Mariah Carey. Or, maybe it was the tech team that was to blame. Either way, Mariah gave a lack luster performance on NYE 2017 where she didn’t even sing! Apparently, the star’s equipment wasn’t working. Yet, many of us wondered why she just couldn’t sing acapella considering it’s a song she recorded nearly thirty years ago.

Wouldn’t you think it’d be memorized by now? Or, could it be that Mariah hasn’t taken care of herself or her vocal chords and can’t hit the high notes like she used, so most of her performances she lip sings. Either way, it was an embarrassing moment made even worse by Mariah’s team making claims of sabotage. Not to mention that Mariah’s reputation has gone into the wacky territory thanks to her own Instagram.

7 Melanie B & The Nanny

Divorce is hard enough for children. It’s even harder for children who have to live through it under the limelight. And, it’s hardest for children who have to live under the limelight with parents throwing crazy accusations at each other. When Mel B. and her husband Stephen Belafort split, Mel lashed out at the nanny. The former nanny, Lorraine Gilles said that she was invited to threesomes with the couple multiple times per week. She also claimed that the couple filmed her and used the films for blackmail.

Mel B retaliated claiming that the nanny seduced Belafort and due to the emotional distress, she needed millions of dollars. Belafort was also accused by Mel of sexual assault. In case you’d like to know, the details are actually worse and we cringe at the thought of her children reading about mommy and daddy’s fight with the nanny one day.

6 Dina Lohan’s DUI

Sometimes the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. When your mom is still getting DUI’s, you’ll be more likely to rack up your own list of offenses. How can you grow up into a responsible human being when you only have a terrible example to look up to? Of course, there are other negative rumors circulating about Dina’s parenting style.

It’s even rumored that Lindsay once begged her mother to enter rehab for her drinking. It’s pretty embarrassing when you have to ask your parent to get help for their addiction, even worse still when the world of Tabloid magazines know about it. Lindsay has had enough mistakes of her own to deal with over the last decade. She shouldn’t also have to deal with her mother’s terrible life choices.

5 Whitney Houston Whack Interview

Whitney was a phenomenal singer oozing with that special star quality. However, her downfall became her addiction. It was cringe worthy to watch her downward spiral. She was an international star in the 90s who began making more headlines in the 2000s for her strange behaviour than her talent. She seemed ‘lost for words’ or ‘out of it’ during interviews and let’s not even talk about that reality show staring her and her husband.

Instead let’s talk about that infamous interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002 where she went on a rampage (and created a new slogan) about illicit substances. It was clear that the star was in trouble. Yet, somehow it became a pop culture reference inspiring murals, t-shirts, and memes. She also became the reason that a whole generation wanted to stay clean.

4 Kris Jenner & Jennifer Lawrence

Kris Jenner is another embarrassing mom. She held a dinner party with Jennifer Lawrence once, because that’s what famous people do. The two got so drunk that the night ended with Jlaw naked in Kim’s closet. We’re confused by that too, but apparently that’s what Kim Kardashian said happened on Jimmy Kimmel a day later.

Yet, Kim also had to deal with the video of her mom and Jen dancing with a bottle of booze in their hands. Watching your mom get drunk is one thing. Watching the video of your mom drunk the next day with millions of viewers is a completely different type of embarrassment to live down. Yet, Kim handled it like the well poised queen Bee that she is, because she’s had practice being on a show that highlights all of her family’s cringe worthy moments.

3 Madonna & Instagram & Armpit Hair

We’ve come to the conclusion that pop stars are cool as long as they’re not your parents. Seriously, how do you face your friends when your mom just posted close-up images of her armpit hair on Instagram? Actually, almost everything Madonna posts on Instagram would embarrass us if she were our mom.

Now, we know that Madge is a sexually charged superstar who can do whatever she wants to do, but if she were our mom we’d just wish that she’d keep some things under wraps. We’d kind of wish that she were more like Julia Roberts who doesn’t even have an Instagram to post embarrassing pics of herself or her children. Then, maybe we wouldn’t feel the need to block her on Instagram as Madonna’s son Rocco famously did in 2016.

2 Kim Basinger & That Tape Of Alec Baldwin

2007 was a tough year for celebrities and their personal life. Kim Basinger leaked a voicemail her ex-husband Alec Baldwin left calling their 11-year old daughter Ireland a “rude, thoughtless little pig.” The minute the tape leaked we all knew that it was Kim who leaked it, probably out of revenge to tarnish her ex’s image.

It didn’t exactly paint her as the ideal role model either. While the media shamed Alec for his abusive words, Basinger also received her fair share of shame for leaking the tape. Some things are better left keeping in the family or the courts. Kim was also faced with 12 misdemeanour counts of criminal contempt around this time as well. Family feuds are cringe worthy enough and watching celebrities go through them makes us cringe just the same.

1 Courtney Love Using Illicit Substances While Pregnant

The world would be less interesting without Courtney Love. If she isn’t doing something crazy, she’s saying something crazy. While it’s entertaining for us to watch, we know that it’d be less so if she were our mom. She is mom to 24-year old Frances Cobain. And, one of the worst ways that she embarrassed her daughter was revealing in a documentary about her late husband Kurt Cobain that she used illicit substances while pregnant with their daughter. “I used it once then stopped. I knew she would be fine,” she said in the HBO documentary.

It’s a heartbreaking revelation to hear and probably more so if you were the baby hearing this when you’re in your twenties. We’re still wondering why Courtney decided to make this public knowledge. Some secrets are probably worth keeping in the family.

Sources: DailyMail.co.uk