Health and fitness influencer Rachael Finch has hit back at critics after posting video of her daughter competing in a school cross-country race. The footage shows the 35-year-old former Miss Universe Australia winner running behind her daughter Violet, 8, yelling words of encouragement at her. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Rachael Finch hits back after video of her daughter’s cross-country run.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today In the video, captioned “Crazy cam,” a breathless-sounding Finch can be heard shouting at her daughter: “OK, here we go! It’s the second down hill. Suck in the air, suck in the air! Go go GO! Watch the rocks! That’s it Violet, well done!” The footage unnerved podcasters Amy, Kate and Sophie Taeuber, who dissected the video on their Outspoken podcast earlier this week. “I first saw people talking about this online before seeing the video, and at first I was like, ‘Oh, she’s probably just one of those supportive parents’,” one of the sisters said.
“But this was the next level.” “I don’t understand how this school let her run behind her child during the race,” said another. “Surely it would have been really off-putting for the other kids?” Violet placed 12th out of 100 runners, one sister noted, meaning there would have been plenty of other kids running behind her.
“Can you imagine the other mums seeing this?” she said. “(They would wonder), ‘Why the hell is she allowed at the school on the course?’.
