Carla Bellucci wants each of her four children to hand over £500 in cash this Mother’s Day.
That includes Blu, who is three.
The 44-year-old from Hertfordshire, who has built a reliable second career out of being called Britain’s most hated mum, says the money is earmarked for Botox.
“I need the money so I can put it towards fixing my face,” she told CreatorZine.
“After four kids, I’m going to get Botox to melt away the stress of being such a great mum.”
The cash is not the whole list.
The full rundown
Her daughter Tanisha, 21, has booked a fine-dining reservation for one at a top London restaurant and an afternoon tea at The Shard.
There will also be a £200 bouquet of flowers, a “stack of cash” for a shopping spree and whatever else falls under the heading of surprise activities.
Tanisha’s two brothers, including her eldest sibling, 23, and Jayden, 19, are putting money towards another holiday for their mother.
It will be her ninth trip this year. Blu’s contribution, a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses on top of the £500, will almost certainly come from Carla’s husband Giovanni’s wallet.
Carla plans to open her envelopes of cash alone, drinking champagne, without the children present.
“I want to open my presents in peace with no noisy kids around,” she said.
“I’m really not asking for a lot when I have sacrificed my whole life for them.”
‘She truly deserves the best of everything’
Tanisha, at least, is fully on board. “If I have the money, then why wouldn’t I spend it on her?” she said. “My mum is the best mum ever.
She’s done so much for me and my brothers, so she truly deserves the best of everything.
I know some people might think it’s a bit extra, but I love going above and beyond for her.”
Last year’s Mother’s Day haul included a £400 Gucci cap and a “slap up meal with champagne”. Bellucci said this year required an upgrade.
The wider Bellucci portfolio
Bellucci is no stranger to headlines. She previously admitted to faking depression to get a nose job on the NHS and has spoken about vetting her daughter’s dates with an invasive list of questions designed to weed out “losers”.
More recently, she has been diagnosed with COPD, an incurable lung condition.
She is now relying on the NHS to manage her health, a situation she has acknowledged carries a certain irony given her history with the service.
Why it matters
Bellucci operates in a very specific lane of the creator economy: the professional wind-up merchant. Every headline she generates follows the same structure.
She says something outrageous, the internet reacts with fury, the coverage multiplies, and she banks the attention.
It works because the audience cannot resist engaging with someone who appears to have no ceiling on what she will demand.
Whether she actually receives £2,000 in cash from her children matters far less than the fact that millions of people will read that she asked for it.
For creators studying engagement, Bellucci is a masterclass in understanding that the comment section does not need to like you. It just needs to have an opinion.
Mother’s Day is Sunday. The envelopes, the champagne and the outrage are presumably all ready to go.
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