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Popular bassinet marque Happiest Baby apologized aft facing backlash for asking influencer Brooklyn Larsen to instrumentality a $1,700 merchandise pursuing her son’s death.
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The Happiest Baby institution is taking accountability.
Four months aft influencer Brooklyn Larsen and her hubby Tanner Larsen tragically mislaid their lad Rocky close earlier his birth, the Happiest Baby marque sparked backlash aft allegedly asking her to instrumentality a $1,700 bassinet they had sent her successful speech for tagging them successful related content. In response, the marque has issued a ceremonial apology.
"We cannot explicit much emphatically our deepest sympathy for what she and her household person been done pursuing the nonaccomplishment of her son," a spokesperson for Happiest Baby told Today successful a March 24 statement. "What was intended to beryllium an effort to supply assistance intelligibly was a mistake that added to Brooklyn’s grief, for which we are genuinely sorry.”
“We person taken interior steps to marque definite it ne'er happens again,” the connection continued. “What Brooklyn faced was a calamity beyond comprehension, and we are heartbroken for her loss.”
According to the So You Think You Can Dance alum’s sister Kenna Bangerter, Happiest Baby requested the bassinet’s instrumentality aft Brooklyn informed them she was incapable to supply the contented they had agreed upon successful their promotional agreement. Outraged connected Brooklyn’s behalf, Kenna went connected to stock her communicative connected societal media.
“Super disappointed successful a definite marque during this unimaginable clip for my sister,” Kenna wrote connected a since-expired Instagram Story. “After sending an email regarding the contented she wasn’t capable to send—because her babe passed away. They demanded she nonstop the bassinet back. The bare babe bassinet, inactive sitting adjacent to her bed. Because she didn’t ‘deliver the content.’”
“I privation you to deliberation astir wherefore she couldn’t present the content,” she continued. “I’m perfectly disgusted by a BABY marque who promotes enactment for moms & babies—that doesn’t adjacent person the decency to springiness her the abstraction to grieve the bassinet she ne'er got to fill.”
After all, Brooklyn—who is ma to lad Rome, 4, from a past relationship—was mourning the incredibly tragic nonaccomplishment of her babe lad aft experiencing a stillbirth, having besides antecedently suffered a miscarriage successful December 2023.
“Our hearts are wholly shattered,” Brooklyn, 29, and Tanner, 30, wrote successful a joint November Instagram post. “Our cleanable small lad didn’t marque it. Late Sunday evening, astatine 40 weeks and 2 days, Brooklyn went into labour connected her own. We arrived astatine the hospital, afloat of excitement, lone to beryllium told the devastating quality that they couldn’t find his heartbeat.”
“We were blessed to walk the adjacent 12 precious hours with him, surrounded by our family, pouring each of our emotion into him,” the mates continued. “We can’t afloat explicit the extent of the symptom we consciousness losing our lad and Rome losing his small brother.”
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