Meryl Streep Slams Young Hollywood Moms
Actress Meryl Streep is disgusted with young Hollywood moms and the choices they are making when it comes to their newborn babies.
Streep, who has four children of her own, cannot believe that the stars are selling their babies first pictures to the highest bidder. Although some give the money to charity she still thinks it’s wrong.
“One thing I learned very early on is that when you’re famous, you lose your right to privacy. If you promote your children, have them photographed, then they lose their rights. But, if you do not have them photographed and (do not) sell them to OK! Magazine, they have the right to ….privacy and citizenship. They (paparazzi) can follow me; take a picture, whatever they want to do. My kids, no.”
Streep raises a good point but it is obvious that actors, being the vain people they are, enjoy showing off their offspring, just like the rest of us do. Very few protect their progeny by shielding them from the press. Most parade them around for the world to see – and we love it!
Photo: WENN
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I also don’t get selling the pictures…. unless the thinking is “if you can’t beat them join them”…
With all due respect to Merryl Streep, although she is arguably one of the finest actors of our generation, she has never experienced the type of fan worship and celebrity that today’s (lesser talented and deserving) stars receive. Whereas a candid photo of Meryl may fetch $25 from each media outlet, a paparazzi photographer can make thousands of dollars by selling one photo of a star (Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, Justin Timberlake) to the hundreds of worldwide outlets that demand celebrity photos. If the celebrity is caught in a compromising position or is the ultimate photo “get” (like a photo of a star’s baby), they can make tens of thousands (and even more if the photo is an exclusive). And the stars do not earn any portion of that money. So when the magazines are willing to pay millions of dollars for Brad and Angelina’s twins, why shouldn’t they control who profits from it? You know that the opportunistic photographers are not giving any of their proceeds to charity. 100% of that money is going in their pockets. So better that the many charities that Brad and Angelina (and other celebrities) support should benefit instead of to the individuals who chase them. That money will do those organziations and a lot of people a lot of good. And it will also help to keep their families safer so that they are not chased mercilessly as the photographers fight to get the “money shot” (lest we forget Princess Diana). When they control who receives the photos, the value of a photos id diminished. Celebs like Brad and Angelina use their burden of every moment of their lives being documented on film to help others and not themselves. Many celebrities keep the money for themselves (or they say for their children) and that type of profiteering is is a different story and one which I do not personally support, but it is their right.