A writer has gone viral for sharing how attracted she is to her husband after two decades

A mum has gone viral for being very candid about how she feels about her husband’s looks.

Molly wrote an article about the complicated relationship she has with her husband. Source: Instagram

British mummy blogger and writer Molly Gunn has gone viral for writing an article about how her husband used to be ‘hot’.

Gunn, who blogs under the name Selfish Mother, documents their relationship in the article, as well as her concerns that if she met her husband today she wouldn’t be attracted to him.

She wrote in the The Times: “My favourite photo of him was taken (by me) on a beach in Ibiza in 2003 when he was a handsome DJ with curly hair, witticisms and ripped jeans. Sometimes I look at Tom now and wonder what happened to the Tom I met then.”

Molly wrote an article about the complicated relationship she has with her husband. Source: Instagram

Gunn and her husband Tom have been together two decades, have three kids and have now posed together for a photo for her article where she grapples with her attraction to him.

The mum doesn’t rubbish her husband’s looks now, but she does admit throughout the piece that she preferred him when he was younger, before kids, mortgages and all the rest of it.

She added that she sometimes still “fancied” him but also admitted, “I look at this grown-up 45-year-old man, with this furrowed brow, a habit of talking with food in his mouth, an unfortunate green-gold gilet, and a cap (grimace) that hides his now coarse salt-and-pepper hair, and I think: who are you?”

Gunn’s decision to discuss the complications of her marriage and her husband’s looks has taken the internet by storm.

While some people enjoyed Gunn’s honesty, others were completely offended by it.

Are heterosexuals ok pic.twitter.com/7aKMaj95TL

— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) February 25, 2023

“What’s the photo for again?”
“Just a freelance piece I’m writing”
“Ok great” pic.twitter.com/HnjUbttho0

— Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) February 25, 2023

I told myself I would ignore that “My husband used to be hot, what happened” article that’s going around because it’s obviously a cynical clickgrab, but if she thinks this man hasn’t aged well, then…she has bigger problems than the obviously-impending divorce. pic.twitter.com/hVOSueMuV7

— Julia Kite-Laidlaw (@juliakite) February 26, 2023

Important update on 'My Husband Used to be So Hot':

It was originally a blog post.

It was originally posted on Valentine's Day.https://t.co/NTF9n6SDTx

— Ross Floate (@RossFloate) February 27, 2023

Just read the “my husband used to be hot” piece. And not only is he VERY HOT, but my god I do not want that life

— Carrie Walsh (@carrie_walsh_) February 25, 2023

Of course, it doesn’t just end with the one article.

Gunn has popped up again to write an article about the body-shaming she received after she wrote about her husband’s ‘hotness’.

Her latest piece comes with the headline. “I was body-shamed by trolls after writing that my husband used to be hot.”

Originally published as A writer has gone viral for sharing how attracted she is to her husband after two decades