Influencer Taleigha Skye addressed the comments she’s received since leaving her baby alone in a hotel room.
Skye, 24, took to Instagram on Sunday, April 19, to apologize for leaving her 6-month-old son, Haze, alone in her Bali hotel room while she went for a massage.
“I want to address what’s been circulating online,” she wrote via her Instagram story. “I made a poor decision, and I take full responsibility for it. Although I was only meters away from the locked resort room and I had constant monitoring, I recognize that this did not make the situation safe.”
Skye, who shares Haze, along with son Evi, 4, with Matthrew Reid, continued, “We do have a lovely nanny? here in Bali who was unavailable that day. This is not a justification, just context.”
She concluded her post by writing, “I understand the seriousness of my actions and I can confidently say this is the first and last time it will ever happen.”
Skye’s message comes after she faced backlash online for leaving her little one alone in a room. In a since-deleted TikTok, she explained that she was out? for a massage at the hotel’s wellness center while Reid was out with Evi. Fans shared their thoughts via Reddit on Saturday, April 18.
“Usually love her content, but leaving her sleeping baby alone in their hotel in a third world country while she goes to get a foot massage?? That is insane,” one wrote. A second added, “Omg my jaw was on the floor.” Another person commented, “Some influencers are too comfortable with what they show online.”
Skye is not the first influencer who has faced backlash for seemingly leaving their kids alone on vacation.
In September 2024, Matt and Abby Howard shared via Instagram that they took their kids, Griffin, 3, and August, 2, on a cruise that their children didn’t have fun on.
“So we ended up taking them for 5 nights and it became apparent that they weren’t enjoying it; therefore, we weren’t either,” Abby, 27, captioned a post. So THEN we switched our dinner time to AFTER their bedtime and FaceTimed the monitors while we ate. And that worked out muchhh better for everyone!”
The couple then denied claims that their little ones were alone on the cruise via TikTok. “We take our role as parents extremely seriously and we love our children more than anything in the entire world. We’re very protective of our kids,” Matt, 27, said. “People started to speculate and believe that we had left our children alone in their staterooms — and that is just completely untrue.”
He added, “We had someone with our children at all times on this boat. Period.”
