The mother of two has a discount code for the camera linked in her online bio that offers 10% off the Tweetycam, a $300 baby monitor marketed as being designed because the makers “know how important your baby’s safety and wellbeing are to you”.
The product description says the monitor “lets you check in from anywhere in the house, whether it’s nap time, play time, or bedtime”.
Skye’s action was lambasted by online critics after the post was shared to TeaTime, a Facebook group with 250,000 members who find community by “dishing out the tea in your personal lives or banging on about the latest celebrity news”.
Taleigha Skye has made her Instagram profile private after her actions while on holiday drew criticism. Photo / Instagram
Skye responded to the fallout in a statement posted on her Instagram Stories, writing she’d made “a poor decision and I take full responsibility for it”.
“Although I was only metres away from the locked resort room and had constant monitoring, I recognise that this did not make the situation safe.”
Additionally, Skye shared that “we do have a lovely nanny here in Bali who was unavailable that day”.
“This is not justification, just context,” she wrote.
Skye said she now understood the seriousness of her actions,
“I can confidently say this is the first and last time it will ever happen”.
Online commenters were quick to draw comparisons with the case of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from her parents’ holiday rental in Portugal in 2007 while they went for dinner.
“In this day and age, after Madeleine McCann, why would any parent do this? I’m shook,” one TeaTime member commented.
In 2024, influencers Abby and Matt Howard faced similar criticism when they posted online about watching their young children through a baby monitor while enjoying a meal on a cruise ship.
Skye has since made her Instagram account private.