Ashley Tisdale’s last photo with her former mom group, which she recently branded “toxic,” showed happy and supportive women — or so it seemed.
Janice Gott, the founder of a discreet silicone breast pump company called Muu, gushed over Tisdale and their tight-knit circle of parent pals in December 2024.
“I wish I had more photos with all the friends and like… my husband LOL but the point of this post is to say there is nothing like mom friends, or a husband who tells you to quit your career so you can build the other one that’s burning an idea in your brain, and then doing it so you can have a pound of caviar on a Thursday morning bc you said so 😇,” Gott, who was pregnant at the time, captioned an Instagram carousel featuring pictures and videos from a work function.
“And we had 50 brands who are either the most loved, or most regarded, or most luxurious, or absolute cleanest in their category offer to shower all our friends with goodies with no strings attached — just to come behind this mom right here.🙋🏻♀️ I hope that gives you hope and the warm & fuzzies for part of the world that isn’t going up in flames.”
Gott signed off, “Now I shall have this baby!”
Tisdale commented, “You are incredible!!,” which Gott “liked.” They both still follow each other.
However, the actress, 40, unfollowed other members of the group — including Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore and clothing designer Samii Ryan — sometime after their last outing together. (Notably, she still follows Meghan Trainor.)
Last week, Tisdale — who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 1, with husband Christopher French — wrote an essay for The Cut titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group.”
In it, she described feeling “not cool enough” after being excluded from some of the group’s hangouts and wondering “what [she] was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out.”
Eventually, the “High School Musical” star texted the group, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”
Although she “never considered the moms to be bad people [except for] maybe one,” she chose to cut ties with them after the “dynamic stopped being healthy and positive.”
In a separate blog post, Tisdale elaborated that the “ugly” group’s “mean girl behavior” left her feeling “hurt, drained [and] left out” over time.
“I realized that there were group text chains that didn’t include everyone, which led to cliques forming within the larger group,” she explained.
“And after the third or fourth time of seeing social media photos of everyone else at a hangout that I didn’t get invited to, it felt like I wasn’t really part of the group after all.”
Reps for Gott, Duff, Moore and Tisdale did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment, while Ryan seemingly shaded Tisdale with a pointed Instagram Story upload.
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