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Influential Parents List
Influential Parents List
The Most Influential Parents of 2020
From celebs and influencers to authors and activists, here are the parents who innovated, inspired and rose to the occasion of this unprecedented year of firsts—and a few who, well, did not.
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Chrissy Teigen
The model, TV personality, cookbook author and entrepreneur publicly shared her pregnancy loss despite hateful trolls.
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Jessica Malaty Rivera
This epidemiologist mom was on a mission to debunk COVID misinformation during naptime.
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Amy Schumer
The stand-up comic, actor, mom to baby Gene and chronic over-sharer—in a good way—took us along as she took the stage with hyperemesis gravidarum.
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Sasha Exeter
The black mom and influencer stood up against a white celeb’s abuse of power and "textbook white privilege."
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Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand's Prime Minister is one of our most influential parents for being a strong female force in the fight against COVID-19 and breaking boundaries for working parents
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Dr. Jen Gunter
The women’s health advocate and all-around badass internet lady is one of our most influential parents for helping us reclaim our bodies by calling out quackery.
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Ibram X. Kendi
The race scholar, dad and best-selling author is one of our most influential parents because he always made it home for bedtime while schooling the world on race.
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Susie Allison
Busy Toddler's kindergarten activity queen, Susie Allison, is one of our most influential parents for keeping our toddlers busy, one toilet paper roll at a time.
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These unidentified parents made our influential parents hall of fame by starting an actual wildfire with their over-the-top gender-reveal party.
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Gabrielle Union
Actor, activist and advocate Gabrielle Union is one of our most influential parents of 2020 for opening up about her transgender stepchild and use of surrogacy.
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Sarah Nicole Landry
The body-positive influencer known as The Birds Papaya is one of the year's most influential parents for making sure no stretch mark or topic was too taboo.
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Ashley Graham
Plus-size model, mom and body-positivity advocate Ashley Graham is one of our most influential parents for keeping it real through her first year of motherhood.
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Tom Rosenthal
Father and singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal is one of 2020's most influential parents after capturing our hearts singing “Dinosaurs in Love” with his daughter.
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Myka Stauffer
The YouTube star, who adopted an autistic child from China, made our influential parents hall of shame for later “rehoming” him.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Two of the year's most influential parents stepped back from their royal roles after the birth of their first baby, Archie, to give him a normal life.
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Jennifer Anderson
The dietician and mom of two is one of our most influential parents for filling our plates with a bounty of mealtime tips and tricks on her wildly popular Instagram account.
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Amanda Jetté Knox
The award-winning author, trans rights advocate and mom of four is one of our most influential parents for putting mental health awareness front and centre.
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Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens
The duo behind The Conscious Kid are two of this year's most influential parents for teaching us how to raise anti-racist children.
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J.K. Rowling
The author of the Harry Potter series is in our influential parents hall of shame for her problematic Twitter rants featuring transphobic remarks.
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