Jada Pinkett Smith Speaks Out About Willow Smith, Moises Arias Photo
Jada Pinkett Smith is upset with people's perception of her daughter Willow pictured in bed with a shirtless older male.
Willow, the 13-year-old daughter of actors Jada and Will Smith, was seen lying in bed with a 20-year-old actor Moises Arias. After the photograph made its way to Instagram, a number of people spoke out against the image.
However, Jada is defending her daughter.
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"Here's the deal: There was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation," she told TMZ. "You guys are projecting your trash onto it, and you're acting like covert pedophiles, and that's not cool."
A source reportedly told TMZ why the Smith parents believe Willow is mature enough to make her own decisions.
"Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith believe their daughter is 'very mature' ... enough so to make her own decisions, as long as they don't clearly cross the line," a source reportedly told TMZ. "Bottom line … Will and Jada have NO issue with the pic."
Will has previously shared his approach to parenting.
"We respect our children the way we would respect any other person. Things like cleaning up their room," Smith told Haute Living magazine previously. "You would never tell a full-grown adult to clean their room, so we don't tell our kids to clean their rooms."
The actor went on further to explain his concept.
"We tell our kids 'you don't have a room, that's our room and we are letting you borrow it,'" he previously told Haute Living. "So the same way you would say to an adult if you let them use your car, you say, 'Yo man, clean my car! Don't drive around all filthy like that!' And it's perfectly reasonable for you to want an adult to clean your car, so we feel it's perfectly reasonable to ask our kids to clean the rooms that we are letting them use."
