Kristen Bell on Twitter: People Magazine, Stop Buying Celebrity Child Photos!
Bell and Shepard Call for Customers to Boycott the 'Pedorazzi'-- Pararazzi Who Photograph Children
Kristen Bell's Twitter rant against People magazine and other tabloids that buy pictures of celebrity children without their consent has garnered attention on the internet. Bell and her husband, Dax Shepard, want customers to boycott tabloids that enable "pedorazzi"- paparazzi who make their living off of taking pictures of children without their parents' consent.
Kristen Bell's Twitter tirade against People magazine brought attention to the issue by retweeting her husband, Dax Shepard, last week.
"Please boycott magazines that run pics of celebrity 'celebrity children,'" Shepard posted. "They shouldn't be punished for who their parents are."
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"I won't do interviews 4 entities that pay photogs to take pics of my baby anymore," Bell followed up. "I care more about my integrity & my values than my career."
While Bell and Shepard are fine with paparazzi taking pictures of them, they draw the line at their daughter, whom they say photographers chase and yell things at for a reaction.
"We're not saying that we can't be newsworthy," she said on a interview on the "Today" show. "We chose to be the entertainers, so we never post … other than the birth announcement … we've posted nothing about her and we don't plan to."
Bell and Shepard even took it one step further by partnering with other actors and musicians like Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry to create Senate Bill 606, which makes it illegal to photograph a celebrity's child in a way that "seriously alarms, annoys, [torments], or terrorizes" them. The new father, whose daughter Lincoln was born last March, said that only addresses the part of the problem, however.
"As long as people pay good money to buy magazines featuring famous people's children, there will be men popping out of bushes and lurking around playgrounds to get those pics," Shepard blogged on Tumblr. "The consumer is the only one that can put an end to this. They are the ones with real power."
Bell has continued her Twitter assault against the "pedorazzi" as recently as Saturday, calling out individual publications like Just Jared, Us Weekly, PopSugar and others.
"HEY @peoplemag I want YOU to be the first to stand against the #pedorazzi. DONT use pics of non consenting minors. WHAT DO YOU SAY?" Bell tweeted.
