Popular parenting blogger Clemmie Hooper has deleted her Instagram page after admitting to trolling her husband and other "mumfluencers" using a fake account.

Hooper – who amassed more than 668,000 followers on her Mother of Daughters Instagram account before it was shut down – confessed to creating alias AliceInWunderLust on gossip site Tattle Life last month, explaining she only signed up to defend herself after discovering negative comments about her on the site.

"Earlier this year, I became aware of a website that had thousands of comments about my family and I. Reading them made me feel extremely paranoid and affected me much more than I knew at the time," she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.

"I decided without telling anyone else that I would make an anonymous account so that this group of people would believe I was one of them, so that I could maybe change their opinions from the inside to defend my family and I."

Mother of Daughters Instagram page has been removed. (Instagram)

The mum-of-four admits that spending time on the site became "all-consuming" and things "grew bigger than I knew how to handle", so when users started suspecting it was her behind the account she "made the mistake of commenting about others".

Unfortunately, Hooper's husband Simon, who runs the hugely successful Fathers of Daughters Instagram account, didn't escape the firing line, and unknowingly became a target.

"I bet he's just a run of the mill guy in his day job as a management consultant. I don't like the exposure of their kids though, but what is he without them?" Hooper wrote, calling her husband a "twerp".

Simon has since refused to defend his wife, writing on Instagram, "I can't condone or fully understand why Clemmie did what she did".

Clemmie with her husband Simon and daughters (Instagram)

"Frankly, I'm in a crap position as I only really have 2 options: 1). to stay silent to protect my wife and knowing that if I do, the silence will be deafening or 2). to comment on something I had no knowledge of," he revealed.

"I'm feeling both angry and a bit sad. I just wish she could have spoken to me about this before it all got too much; Actually, If we're wishing for things, I wish it had never happened in the first place."

Simon says he understands the dark place you can find yourself in after becoming a target of online trolls.

"I guess whereas I can happily ignore it all, she couldn't," he continued. "What I do know is that online actions have real world consequences - this has impacted our family and it will take some time to recover."

Simon is just one of Hooper's targets that have spoken out about the incident that carried on for eight months.

Laura Rutherford, aka That Mummy Smile, wrote in an Instagram post she wouldn't be giving Hooper the opportunity to justify her actions.

"As someone that is on this platform to support other women, talk about accountability and stand up for myself when people attempt to bring me down, I won't stay silent," she wrote.

"It's not even about the words that have been said. It's the betrayal of trust. To say I'm hurting is an understatement. What gives you the right to play with people's mental health?" she continued.

"For so long I've had to grin and bear the derogatory comments, the angst of what people think of me, where the malice has come from. You've looked me in the eye and asked me how I'm doing when I've been at my lowest. How dare you?"

It's believed before the news broke, Hooper called her nearest and dearest to explain what she'd done, going on to admit publicly she regrets her actions.

"Engaging in this was a huge mistake," Hooper said. "I take full responsibility for what's happened and I am just so sorry for the hurt I have caused to everyone involved including my friends and family."

It's unknown if Hooper plans to reactivate her account.