The love we have for our parents is unconditional, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have disagreements with them from time to time. Love doesn’t come without friction. That’s part of the price.
But usually, for the vast majority of us, those little trouble spots play out privately.
Unfortunately for one of professional soccer’s brightest prospects, Nicolo Zaniolo, his mom’s social media habits have gotten a little too public.
Nicolo made headlines recently for an off-field remark he made toward his mother.
Even as the 19-year-old’s star rises in his first season with with his club, Roma, it seems that he wants to bring his mom’s social media life back down to Earth.
Nicolo’s mom, Francesca Costa, has amassed more than 360,000 followers on Instagram.
And while her posts aren’t the most revealing, at least in terms of skin, she’s not shy about showing off her face on camera, especially with Nicolo’s most detested feature: Duck face.
In a comment on one of her posts, Nicolo made his feelings quite clear.
“Stop mum. What are you doing with your mouth like that? You’re 40!” he wrote, Italian paper Corriere dello Sport reported, according to The New Zealand Herald .
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Now, it’s easy to understand where Nicolo is coming from.
Every kid will be embarrassed by their parents at some point in their lives. It’s probably even more likely to happen when you lead a very public life. And where duck face in his mom’s posts are concerned, he’s got a point.
Let’s face it, she does take a lot of selfies, but why not right?
But she does have a couple of good arguments in her favor if she wants to ignore her son’s complaints.
For one thing, 40 isn’t that old, and she clearly takes care of herself, so there’s really nothing wrong with being proud of that and wanting to flaunt the results of your hard work on social media.
For another thing, being 40 makes you a grown-up, capable of making your own decisions on social media.
If Nicolo has a problem with what she posts, well, that’s a Nicolo problem, not a Francesca problem.
Only time will tell whether Nicolo’s pleas to his mom will be ignored or not.
But also, he can calm TF down! It’s just some selfies after all.
However, this isn’t the first time Francesca has left her son blushing.
Apparently, after meeting Italian soccer legend Francesco Totti, Francesca broke down in tears.
“I saw him the first time we were in Trigoria. He came to us and I started crying,” she said,
According to The New Zealand Herald , she continued, “He told me: ‘What are you crying for me?’ I could not speak. “Nicolo told me: ‘What are you doing to me?’. There was also my husband Igor who laughed.”
No word on whether Nicolo was starry-eyed for the living legend, however.
But as he takes the spotlight more for himself, he might find more friction in his life than his mother’s Instagram selfies.
And not to point fingers, but Nicolo’s Instagram only has pictures of himself too. Take a look at a screenshot of his profile.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, eh?
Here’s hoping this is the worst of it for Nicolo and Francesca!
And who knows, maybe there’s even a duck face selfie in Nicolo’s future, too!
