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?
Halle Berry recently shared a rare photo of her son Maceo on Instagram, but without revealing his face. The mysterious photo is pretty consistent with the movie star’s views on privacy.
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.
