Blake Lively has had enough of her children “being stalked” by paparazzi. The actress and mother of three left a powerful comment on a since-deleted post from a tabloid sharing photos of herself with her daughters James, 6, Inez, 4, and Betty, 1, while in New York. The screenshot, captured by Comments By Celebs, shows Lively seemingly smiling and waving at the camera.
“You edit together these images together to look like I’m happily waving. But that is deceitful,” Lively wrote. “The real story is: My children were being stalked by a men [sic] all day. Jumping out. And then hiding. A stranger on the street got into words with them because it was so upsetting for her to see.”
She added that when she “tried to calmly approach the photographer, he “would run away” and then “jump out again at the next block.”
“Where is your morality here? I would like to know. Or do you simply not care about the safety of children?” she questioned, before explaining that the photographers whom she was able to talk to she would bargain with to let them take her picture “away from my children if they would leave my kids alone” because it was frightening.
“Please stop paying grown ass men to hide and hunt children,” she continued in part, adding “There are plenty of pictures you could’ve published without the kids. Please delete. C’mon. Get with the times.”
Once seeing her comment on Comments By Celebs’ post, she left another message sharing her suggestion on how people can help send a message to tabloids that post photos of celebrities’ kids without their permission.
“One simple thing people can do is stop following and block any publications or handles who publish kid’s pictures,” she commented. “Feel free to report them. Or send a dm sharing why you don’t follow them. But it’s a simple way of only aligning with publications who have morality. And so many do.”
“All are trying to service an audience. So if that audience makes it clear they don’t want something —like photos of children obtained by men frightening and stalking them— the publication or account will do what the audience wants,” she wrote before adding that “it’s the only way that so many have already stopped. Because the people demanded it. So thank you to everyone who’s made that difference already. And thank you again for sharing. It’s f**king scary.”
Fellow mom and celeb friend Gigi Hadid also reposted Lively’s comments on her Instagram Story.
