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Filed under: Celeb Kids, Celeb Parents, Behaving Badly, Media
Super star mom Julia Roberts is waging her own personal campaign to get the paparazzi to stop taking pictures of celebrities' children. She's also inadvertently trying to get stars to stop giving the photo-crazy press so many photo opps.
Says Roberts: "...I think that it's inhuman to chase a woman with her children." Here, here, Julia! It's actually sort of terrifying. I know those kids are under lock and key but they seem so exposed and vulnerable. She calls the act of other celebs allowing their children to be photographed "demeaning." With all the overexposure celebrities have allowed themselves and their children, celebrity kids are essentially now being hunted.
Julia is remorseful that when she takes her children out she basically has to hide them. Even though she doesn't parade her children through the streets as props in yet another photo opp, she still feels the brunt of it. Any other woman walking a stroller is just some random person. When you're Julia Roberts, however, you can't even do something as normal as enjoy a walk in the park with your kid.
Who is to blame for all this? Is it the media bating the celebs or the other way around? I think that question falls squarely into the 'chicken or the egg' category.
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11-08-2007 @ 10:10PM
Kathy said...Perhaps it's the fault of the people who buy the tabloids. Or those who check out the celeb gossip websites. If people weren't making money on the pictures, they wouldn't be taking them.
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11-09-2007 @ 11:37AM
Jan Bay said...Can you imagine what it would be like if your childhood memories included being chased out of restaurants, down the street and into your car by people screaming your mom and dad's name?
Perhaps the celebrity parents could make some kind of tradeoff with the photographers by offering studio photo sessions or "faux" candid shots in exchange for some privacy?
I realize they don't owe their fans a peek into their lives, but they are celebrities and it's pretty much part of the gig. That being said, there's no reason that the babies have to suffer because of mom and dad's career choices.
Jan from http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/
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1-30-2008 @ 11:49PM
unknownmomma said...Many celebs have tried a trade off i.e. take a pic and then go away, but sadly it rarely works. The pappa will often contiune to hound anyway.
11-09-2007 @ 2:21PM
LS said...My memory is a bit fuzzy, but didn't Princess Diana do something about this? I seem to remember her walking toward the camera - on a snow-covered ski hill - and giving the reporters a piece of her mind. Basically said, 'you can photograph me all you want, but leave my kids alone'.
Perhaps if celebs did that, along with the public scaling back on creating a market, it would work.
But there I go again... dreaming. 'Cause the public is never going to quit their (our?) voyeuristic ways.
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