Karen Koster has one wish for Christmas and heading into 2026, that mums and no doubt the rest of us can relate to.
Chatting to Ray Foley, the host who shares children Finn, JJ, and Eve with her other half, John McGuire, let rip about something that irks her to her very core on the airways.
Karen did not hold back about her complaint and even stated she wouldn’t let her children go on a play date with the family responsible if this happened.
Barretstown ambassador Karen Koster at the launch of Barretstown’s Christmas appeal. Pic: Brian McEvoy
‘Not putting a picture in your profile pic on WhatsApp,’ she told Ray. ‘We need to call out all the sociopaths who aren’t putting pictures [in their profile] that have the blank profile pic, guys, come on, let’s all go into 2026 with pictures.’
Karen also got very real about the types of pictures she hates seeing as profile options on the messaging app.
John McGuire and Karen Koster in NYC./Pic: Instagram
Karen said: ‘I don’t want landscapes, I don’t want sunsets, I don’t want pictures of your dog.
‘I want to see your face so that if you’re in a class WhatsApp group with me, I can identify you. Don’t be asking me and my kid on a play date [with no profile pic], let me see your face, mom.
‘I need to see who I’m communicating with. I need those blue ticks on, and I want that picture right there.’
Karen reshared a clip of the interview and declared that moms using profile pics of themselves was ‘my Christmas wish.’
That wish comes after she recently spoke of how she stepped back from presenting to spend more quality time with her family.