Ashley Tisdale’s last photo with the group of former moms she recently branded “toxic” showed happy, supportive women – or so it seemed.
Janice Gott, founder of a modest silicone breast pump company called Muu, slammed Tisdale and her close circle of parent friends in December 2024.
“I wish I had more pictures with all my friends…husband haha but the point of this post is that there’s nothing like a mom friend or a husband telling you to quit your career to build another job with an idea burning in your brain so you can eat a pound of caviar on Thursday morning, you said so 😇.” Gott, who was pregnant at the time, captioned an Instagram carousel of photos and videos of one of her creations. function.
“And we’ve made an offer to 50 brands that are either the most loved, the most appreciated, the most luxurious, or the cleanest in their category to give all your friends something delicious, no strings attached. Just to get behind this mom right here. 🙋🏻♀️ I hope it gives you hope and a warm fuzzy feeling for a part of the world that isn’t in flames.”
Gott signed, “I’m going to have this baby!”
Tisdale commented, “You’re amazing!!” and Gott commented, “I love it.” They still follow each other.
However, the 40-year-old actress unfollowed other members of the group, including Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and clothing designer Sammy Ryan, some time after their last outing together. (Notably, she still follows Meghan Trainor.)
Last week, Ms. Tisdale, who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with husband Christopher French, wrote an essay for The Cut titled “Leaving a Toxic Mom Group.”
In it, she said that after being excluded from several of the group’s hangouts, she felt “not cool enough” and wondered “if[she]had done the ‘wrong thing’ to be ostracized.”
Eventually, the “High School Musical” star texted the group, saying, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
Although she has “never thought of mothers as bad people (though they may be one of them)” she chose to cut ties with them after “the relationship was no longer a healthy, positive one.”
In another blog post, Tisdale detailed that she felt “hurt, exhausted (and) left behind” over time by the “ugly” group’s “mean girl behavior.”
“We realized that there were group text chains that didn’t include everyone, which led to the formation of cliques within larger groups,” she explained.
“And after seeing social media photos of other members joining hangouts they weren’t invited to for the third or fourth time, I felt like I wasn’t really part of the group after all.”
Representatives for Gott, Duff, Moore, and Tisdale did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment, but Ryan appeared to criticize Tisdale in an Instagram Story upload.
