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Elizabeth Hurley has recently come under some severe criticism for posting a picture of her young son, Damien, in a pink bikini on her web site. The outrage at Hurley ranges from her lack of judgment for posting such a personal image to shock that she would do anything that could bring shame to the little boy from his peers. The picture in question shows Hurley's son posed in a bright pink bikini and large, white framed sunglasses during a photo shoot for the model's line of sexy bikinis.As a mother of a young boy who enjoys his sister's shiny, purple swimsuit as much as he loves his shark print boy trunks, I have to roll my eyes at this one. I seriously doubt that Hurley had any ill intent toward her son when she snapped the picture and then posted it. Young children are delightfully free of societal baggage and happy to wear gender bending outfits whenever it pleases them. Of course Hurley's son receives far more attention simply because his mother is a celebrity and under much more scrutiny that the rest of us, but I believe the outrage is misplaced.
What about you? Any thoughts?
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7-02-2007 @ 12:41PM
Ginny said...I think it's funny. If she used him to model it for her website, it makes her a little strange, but I doubt the boy will suffer.
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7-02-2007 @ 1:10PM
nicolebarber said...all in humor no different then letting your five year old girl go out wearing makeup and dressing like she's in her thirties or letting your teenager dress like a street walker,
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7-02-2007 @ 1:25PM
Ginny said...Nicole - it is very different. It's not as if she took him to the beach wearing that pink bikini. I bet you think he'll "turn gay" now, don't you.
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7-02-2007 @ 1:34PM
Ann Adams said...Ginny, you mean you didn't know we moms are to blame for everything?
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7-02-2007 @ 1:44PM
rebecca Biernesser said...Lord, I bet I would be shot if I actually post the picture of my son in his cousin's pink, shiny TuTu dance outfit. Well, I did actually resize it to a 5X7 and framed it for my husband for his birthday. lol
I don't see anything wrong with it, He most likely wanted to do it and thought nothing of it.
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7-02-2007 @ 1:49PM
Ginny said...Hi Ann;
I only want to get "blamed" for the good stuff tho. The rest is all my husband's fault. LOL
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7-02-2007 @ 9:47PM
SKL said...My sister-in-law took a pic of her 2-year-old son in a bra, and hung it up at his high school graduation. So what? However, the kid in the picture being discussed here seems old enough to be teased. I'm not sure what a mom seeks to accomplish by posting something like this on her Website. However, I don't think it merits scandalous headlines. The media has done this child far more damage than his mother's picture posting could have.
When I was a kid, we dressed a 5-year-old relative (boy) in a dress just before Halloween, and he looked like such a cute little girl. We tried to get him to go trick-or-treating like that, but he wouldn't. Funny thing was, though at the time everyone always said he was "all boy," and he didn't act at all feminine, he did "come out" as homosexual as an adult. Not sure how that all connects, but it is an eerie memory in hindsight.
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7-03-2007 @ 7:00AM
Amy said...There is a big difference between dressing up a little boy for his own entertainment (and the families) and posting it on a website that will be seen by ALOT of people. I don't think it is funny or appropriate in any way. She should not have made that picture public.
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7-03-2007 @ 9:03AM
Heather said...I guess we are in trouble then since my son loves pink and purple. I acutall had someone critize me for putting purple pants on him. I always though purple was a unisex colour. After all isn't the team colours of the Toronto Raptors purple and red.
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