Daughter captures her ‘almond mom’ pacing to ‘get her steps in’ while she is in the ER

A 21-year-old has gone viral after revealing her ‘almond mom’ paced back and forth in the emergency room to ‘get her steps in’ while she was lying in her hospital bed. 

Sadie Shaw, who uses the handle @s.s.training, posted footage of her fitness-obsessed mom walking around her room on TikTok, where it has been viewed more than 6.3 million times. 

‘I’m literally in the ER and my almond mom is just pacing around so she can still get her steps in? she wrote in the on-screen text. 

‘She asked me if she could do pushups in the corner because she missed her workout class to meet me there,’ she added in the caption. 

‘She asked me if she could do pushups in the corner because she missed her workout class to meet me there,’ she added in the caption

‘Almond mom’ is a term used to describe mothers who impose restrictive eating and fitness habits onto their children. 

The viral phrase was inspired by Yolanda Hadid advising her then-teenage daughter Gigi to ‘have a couple of almonds and chew them really well’ in a resurfaced clip of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 

Sadie’s video shows her mother wearing gym clothes and Airpods while pacing around her hospital bed with her cellphone in her hand. 

The short clip has received more than 8,400 comments since it was posted a few weeks ago, and many people were outraged on her behalf. 

‘That’s really sad tbh,’ one person wrote, while another asked, ‘Can you imagine living this way? Like those steps are going to make [or] break a person.’

‘That’s unbelievable and disrespectful,’ someone else responded. ‘I’m so sorry.’

Others shared that their mothers are the same way, with one viewer recalling how her mom blamed her for ‘ruining her 30-day Peloton challenge’ when she was in the ER.  

The video has been viewed more than 6.3 million times, and many commenters thought her mom’s behavior was ‘sad’ and ‘disrespectful’ 

There were also a number of people who didn’t see anything wrong with Sadie’s mom passing the time while they waited to be seen. 

‘I mean… it’s the ER what else is she supposed to do,’ one person argued. ‘The doctors got you covered and if you need her she’s there.’ 

Sadie explained in a follow-up video that she woke up at 2 a.m. with severe stomach pains and nausea. When she went to urgent care the next morning, she was sent to the ER because her white blood cell count was double the amount it should be. 

After further testing, a CT scan showed that her appendix and intestines were inflamed. She was monitored in the hospital overnight because the doctors weren’t ready to rule out appendicitis. 

She was discharged the next day after her inflammation went down and her white blood cell count returned to normal. Doctors suspect her symptoms were the side effects of a virus. 

Sadie later hit back at critics who responded negatively to her video calling out her mother for her behavior. 

Sadie was suffering from stomach pain and nausea when she ended up in the ER. Her white blood cell count had doubled and her appendix was inflamed. Doctors think she had a virus 

Sadie also hit back at critics who claimed she shouldn’t be calling out her mother because her ‘life revolves around the gym too.’ ‘Where do you think I got it from,’ she asked 

Sadie insisted that she posted the video ‘as a joke’ and wasn’t trying to attack her mother 

‘A lot of the people are really upset about the video I posted of my mom pacing around my ER room trying to get her steps in,’ she said. ‘My favorite comments are the ones of people saying, “Well, your whole page is just full of fitness content. Your whole life revolves around the gym too.” 

‘Girly, where do you think I got it from?’ she asked. ‘You’re in my comments telling me I need to stop judging her because I have the same problem. Just think about that for a second. 

‘When you’re raised by someone who’s obsessed with the gym and can’t take a day off, even when her daughter is in the ER, how do you think I’m gonna end up? Why do you think my whole life revolves around the gym?’

Sadie noted that she is ‘grateful’ that her mother came to the hospital and spend the entire day with her in the ER. 

‘I literally posted it as a joke. She was pacing around my room trying to get her steps in, and she did ask me if she could do push-ups on the floor. Both the things were true,’ she explained. 

‘I was not trying to attack her, and I was not trying to get five million people to attack her either. Everyone copes with their trauma in different ways. I personally use humor to cope with mine.’