Blake Lively Calls Out Paparazzi For Stalking, Selling Photos Of Her Kids

Blake Lively went into mama bear mode after being followed by the paparazzi while out with her three daughters, James (6), Inez (4), and Betty (21 months). Many of the photographs were ultimately sold to, published, and shared by the Daily Mail without Lively's permission.

When the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress came across an Instagram post of the photos on the outlet's account, Lively left a lengthy comment calling them out for sharing the photos. She described the encounter with the photographer as frightening.

"You edit together these images together to look like I’m happily waving. But that is deceitful," Lively began. "The real story is: My children were being stalked by a man all day. Jumping out. And then hiding. A stranger on the street got into words with them because it was so upsetting for her to see. When I tried to calmly approach the photographer you hired to take these pictures in order to speak to him, he would run away. And jump out again at the next block. Do you do background checks on the photograph[er]s you pay to stalk children? Where is your morality here? I would like to know. Or do you simply not care about the safety of children?"

"The photographers who would speak to me, I was able to agree to smile and wave and let them take my picture away from my children if they would leave my kids alone. Because it was frightening," she continued. "Tell the whole story. At a minimum, listen to your followers. They too understand this is dark and upsetting that you pay people to stalk children. Please stop paying grown-ass men to hide and hunt children. There are plenty of pictures you could’ve published without the kids. Please delete. C’mon. Get with the times."

Lively's call-out was then shared by Comments by Celebs. She thanked the account for reposting her words and then went on to offer some insight on how others can help stop photos of children being published without parental consent.

"One simple thing people can do is stop following and block any publications or handles who publish kid’s pictures," she explained. "Feel free to report them. Or send a dm sharing why you don’t follow them. But it’s a simple way of only aligning with publications who have morality. And so many do."

"All are trying to service an audience. So if that audience makes it clear they don’t want something —like photos of children obtained by men frightening and stalking them— the publication or account will do what the audience wants," she continued. "It’s the only way that so many have already stopped. Because the people demanded it. So thank you to everyone who’s made that difference already. And thank you again for sharing. It’s f***ing scary."