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Meet Dr. Becky, the Millennial Parenting Guru Who Turned A Viral Instagram Post Into an Empire

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Becky Kennedy isn’t trying to help anyone become the perfect parent. That’s not possible. The 43-year-old clinical psychologist and author tells me very matter of factly on a Monday afternoon Zoom call in mid-March that perfection wouldn’t be her objective even if it was . “Perfect is creepy,” she says. “I don’t hold myself to the goal of being perfect or calm all the time.” Kennedy is better known to her audience of 3.4 million on Instagram and 342,000 on TikTok as Dr. Becky , and it's that kind of honesty and open-mindedness—backed by the credibility of being a mom of three kids aged 14, 11, and 8—that got her there. She earned the title of the “Millennial parent whisperer” during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she would share videos of herself empathetically addressing the anxieties of modern parenting from her New York City living room. Her popularity at a time when parenting advice is being spit out from all corners of the internet with regularity speaks for itself.…

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