With their daughter Lincoln’s first birthday coming up in two months, actors, Dax Shepard and his wife, Kristen Bell have called for a boycott on magazines who pay for photos of celebrity children and subsequently publish the photos. Not having released any photos of their daughter to the public themselves, this action comes as a result of paparazzi pictures that were published of their daughter for the first time according to The Huffington Post .
Shepard and Bell took to twitter to vocalize their frustration with the issue.
“Please boycott magazines that run pics of ‘celebrity children.’ They shouldn’t be punished for who their parents are. Children shouldn't be stalked,” tweeted Shepard. Bell followed suit with three tweets saying she would no longer agree to do interviews with publications that payed for photos to be taken of her ‘baby anymore.’
This isn’t the first time celebrities have worked to regain the privacy of their children. A bill was passed in September 2013 when actresses, Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry urged officials to support, SB606, a law that would penalize photographers for taking photos without consent of parents and harassment.
With problems still persisting, Bell has responded saying, “Things won’t change until the consumer does.”
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons