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Khloe Kardashian did it. So did her sister, Kim. And earlier this week, Australian supermodel Nicole Trunfio did it too.
“You don’t know this yet but you’re my best friend for all eternity,” wrote Khloe Kardashian underneath a photo of her six-month-old daughter True last month.
You don’t know this yet but you’re my best friend for all eternity!
Excuse me, what? Eternity is a long time, Khloe. 
Look, I get it. When babies are that age, all squishy and lovely, they’re spending a lot of time with you - 20 hours a day would not be an exaggeration.
It’s an intimate relationship, especially if you’re breastfeeding. Even if you’re not, they’re so vulnerable and helpless and the attachment is so strong that it feels right to be able to call them your best friend.
But that doesn’t make it so. 
I totally understand why Trunfio wrote, “My best friend for life” underneath a beautiful photo of them both – I mean, that baby does look incredibly cool.
In all seriousness, I understand it on that mother-daughter level, too. I did get lost in my own daughter’s eyes when she was a baby, and fantasise about how close we’d always be, because we were so close then.
Yet some of these mums are still calling their daughters their besties even when they’re no longer babies.
Kim Kardashian West called North her “best friend for life” when her daughter turned five in June this year.
I get it. I know it’s a joke. But there’s the teeniest bit of truth in there too, because guess what? These mothers don’t say it about their sons.
It’s exactly that – just one more expectation for girls to be the emotional caregivers of their families.
I remember the girls in high school who were “best friends” with their mums and it was a bit hard to watch. The mum wanted to know which boys we liked, and she wanted to share which boys she liked, too – often over a couple of rum and Cokes.
The entire scenario was very Amy Poehler in Mean Girls: “I’m not like other mums, I’m a cool mum.” Yeah, I’m sure you are.
Even if you’re not a “cool mum”, expecting to be “best friends” with your daughter for eternity is still a bit of a stretch, because even though you’ll always love her, you may go through really short periods where you can’t stand her. And that’s OK, because you have proper grown-up friends to lean on when that stuff hits.
It reminds me of that old trend in wedding speeches where the bride or groom would get up and say “You’re not just my lover, you’re my best friend, too.” Uh, no. Just because you like that person for who they are, and you get on really well, it still doesn’t make them your bestie. It makes them your spouse.
I don’t want to be best friends with my kids - I already have a best friend. Her name is Jessica. She’s my age. And the reason we’re best friends is because it’s not a one-way relationship. She’s wiped away my tears, and I’ve done the same for her.
That’s the thing that separates friendship from a mother-daughter relationship: it’s a two-way street.  I don’t vent about life to my kids, because that’s too much for them to hear at this age. 
So mums, please – call them your special people, your beauties, your gifts. Fall in love anew each day. But spare me the b-word, please. Or don’t. Either way, it won’t be my kids I complain to - I have Jessica on speed dial.
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