@allabpardtheallergybus. The Beckhams have a huge PR team and a huge security team to protect their children and carefully manage what is put out there about them. They have never been exploited by the Beckhams for monetary gain. The Beckhams have become wealthy independently of their children.
Their circumstances are so massively different, they’re incomparable. I don’t understand why you brought them up??
I don’t know who Giovanna Fletcher is. But if she chats shit into her phone about dresses once a day and gets paid for putting up pics of her children, then my comments apply to her as well.
I actually think the child aspect is a massive issue for concern. When they appear in ads they are essentially ‘working’ but have none of the protection of children working in, say, TV or print media, which is heavily regulated.
Yes, I do think they perform. And yes, I do suspect they now do it reflexively when they see a camera, since they have had a camera in their face pretty much every day for their short lives.
And, let’s be real, it’s not a ‘snapshot’ captures of a moment in their day. I know from my own children how difficult it is to get a simple holiday pic when they’re all looking in the right direction, with their eyes open, and none of them are gurning or picking their nose. It’s impossible. You look at the polished, staged, pics that FOD posts and you’d be a fool not to think that that one was probably the 35th take and took half an hour to get.
It’s work. They’re putting their children to work. Awful.