A Memphis news anchor fell asleep on the air. Parents everywhere came to her defense.
Being a new mom is rough on your sleep schedule, and Dominique Dillon is not exempt. The Memphis news anchor recently went viral after a viewer recorded the new mom falling asleep behind the anchor desk during a live broadcast.
The clip of the sleeping mom of two quickly made its way around the internet, and the response was not what many might expect.
Sleep is hard to come by
Dillon found herself on the short end of the parenting stick when sleep deprivation collided with one rough night for her teething infant. But the mom didn’t doze off for long. In fact, viewers wouldn’t even know she was asleep at first glance. She looks like she’s propping her head up in her hands and looking at something on the desk. It’s the TV-perfect face of makeup that hides the exhaustion and the not-so-obvious fact that she was sleeping. Even her coworkers didn’t notice at first, according to Dillon, when she recounted........
