Not everyone is an open book when it comes to their kids. As for celebrities who already live under a microscope, how could you blame them?
Cardi B has been adamant about keeping her daughter Kulture off social media, sharing only glimpses of the baby’s feet and hands. While the Bronx rapper has been open about her pregnancy and post-delivery snap back, it seems she and her husband Offset are a little more cautious when it comes to sharing their new blessing with the world.
Halle Berry had similar views when it came to her 4-year-old son Maceo and 10-year-old daughter Nahla. In an Instagram comment to a fan who criticized Berry for hiding her children’s faces on social media, she drew a pretty hard line in the sand. “I try to find creative ways to incorporate them into my feed because they are the biggest part of my life, but I also work very hard to keep their identities as private as I can considering they are only children.”
In fact, it was Berry, along with several A-list parents like Jennifer Garner and Sandra Bullock, who rallied together to make paparazzi harassment of celebrity children a crime. Thanks, in part, to their concerted efforts, other super famous yet super private parents like Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, Kerry Washington and Adele can enjoy the spoils of parenthood without the paps all up in the mix.
While we certainly enjoy the glimpses we’re offered of celebrity parents and their mini-me’s on social media, it’s not fair to expect every celebrity family to be as generous. Here’s a list of celebrity parents who said “thanks but no thanks” to showing off their little ones, along with their reasons why.
Watch Remy Ma give her kids a little style lesson in this Love & Hip Hop clip.
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1 Cardi B and OffsetGetty
“I want to go to the beach with my baby, I want to take a stroll down the street with my baby, and I can’t because I don’t know who’s next to me and who has certain intentions. I don’t want to show my baby out to the public right now. I just want to protect her. I’m not mentally ready.” – Cardi B as told to Jimmy Kimmel. -
2 Halle Berrysplash news
“It’s my belief, and I’m not criticizing others who have different beliefs, that it’s my job as their mother to protect their privacy as best I can. When they grow and they’re of age and they want to share their images on the internet, that will be for them to decide, not me.’ – Instagram -
3 Kerry WashingtonGetty
“I want [my daughter] to be able to make those decisions in her time. She already has a lot to navigate in life as the daughter of an actor and a former football player. She should be able to enter this world when it feels right for her, and not [have me] make that decision for her.” – SXSW panel. -
4 Sandra BullockGetty
“Most foster children are in foster care because they were taken from their birth homes under tragic circumstances—and the last thing I wanted was to bring more harm to her because of the nature of my job.” People Magazine. -
5 Kate WinsletGetty
“Because all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them. And what comes along with that? Eating disorders. We don’t have any social media in our house.” – The Sunday Times. -
6 Lauren London
“I don’t post pictures of my son because he’s a child and I just don’t think I need to be in the business of promoting my son. It’s nobody’s business, you know.” – Hip Hollywood. -
7 AdeleGetty
“We need to have some privacy. I think it’s really hard being a famous person’s child. What if he wants to smoke weed or drink underage, or what if he’s gay and doesn’t want to tell me, and then he’s photographed and that’s how I find out?” – Vogue. -
8 Jennifer GarnerGetty
“[The paparazzi] was so out of hand … I told my daughter, maybe someday people might not know what she looks like. My kids were so excited to think of that because they don’t want this at all, and I don’t want it for them.” – ET. -
9 Ryan Gosling and Eva MendesSplash news
“Ryan and I decided early on to give her as much privacy as we could. And my pregnancy was the first opportunity to give her that … I find the media’s ‘bump watch’ obsession to be both intrusive and stressful. So I made a decision to eject myself from it completely. I was like, ‘Annnnd I’m out.’” – People Magazine. -
10 Tyra Banks@TyraBanks IG
“I don’t think that [my son] has asked to be seen, so I’m very very conservative when it comes to showing him. We get offered lots of money (with offers like), ‘You would be on the cover of this or that.’ And I always have to turn down that stuff.” – USA Today. -
11 Donald Glover
“It’s something everybody grapples with: why we’re programmed the way we’re programmed. A child is information. You’re programming this thing. At the end of the day, all you can really do is plant a seed that you’re not going to see grow into a tree.” – Billboard.