Tweeted: 'Full-time mummy is not an occupation'
But now she says that all mothers who stay home to look after their children are work shy.
The former Apprentice star told her 114,000 Twitter followers: "Full time mummy is not an occupation. It is merely a biological status."
She then stoked the fire by Tweeting about the Government's controversial welfare changes.
She added: "1 in 3 dropped weekly sickness benefit claims in London ahead of assessment. How lame is that? 40 yrs old and still hiding from teacher."
One furious follower immediately replied: "My mum would have died without it, maybe some mentally ill people were too frightened."
Last month Hopkins was hounded with death threats ahead of a club appearance, forcing it to be cancelled. She has been dropped from ITV's This Morning after 75,000 signed a petition to keep her off the telly