Here are some photos of Ashton Kutcher taking his five-month-old daughter Wyatt Isabelle for a hike in LA. Mila Kunis wasn’t there, but it looks like Ashton brought along a bro-friend. I realize that the paparazzi have gotten some shots here and there of Wyatt in the past few months, but these are the first pics I’ve seen where she wasn’t all covered up. Obviously, Ashton doesn’t want Wyatt to be photographed and he looked pretty pissed at the pap. But… yeah, I did coo a little bit at Wyatt’s chunky leg and her little elephant hat. Adorable.
Meanwhile, Ashton is fighting the good fight for gender equality in baby-rearing. He posted this on his Facebook this week:
There are NEVER diaper changing stations in mens public restrooms. The first public men’s room that I go into that has one gets a free shout out on my FB page! #BeTheChange
I’ve never really thought about it because A) I don’t have kids and B) I can’t remember the last time I was in a men’s public bathroom, but yes, that’s something that should change. Men should be more involved with their kids and I believe that with each generation, men do get better at splitting child-rearing duties (it’s still far from equal, of course). There should be diaper changing stations in men’s restrooms. The end.
PS… I don’t get how Wyatt is attached to that baby carrier? Is he just wearing some kind of baby harness and then holding Wyatt in his arms?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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Now that that’s outta the way…good for him! He’s absolutely right, what are men supposed to do with their babies? Change them mid-air?
Yep. I hate the assumption that’s it’s the mother who is supposed to deal with shis sh*t.
And what about gay fathers? 2 parents go out with their kid and neither of them has a place to change a diaper.
I agree, what about gay fathers and what about widowers or men who’ve been given full custody of their babies?. These men have no option of giving them to their wives since there is no place for men to change them. What are they supposed to do, use the restaurant tables?
Recently my husband took our 4 year old daughter to the movies and had no idea how to take her to the bathroom. What is he supposed to do? I couldn’t help either. She is too old to go into the men’s room, don’t want her to see other men’s privates at the urinals, and he obviously can’t go into the woman’s room. There needs to be more family bathrooms as well as changing stations in men’s rooms!
I have seen some fathers take their daughters into the ladies room and change nappies with babies – i think you’ll find that if he’s with his child, they get a pass and maybe even some help. I once saw grandmother give advice to one poor bloke, he got himself in a bit of a pickle.
Thou in the UK, the disabled toilet usually has a baby changing area and that’s gender neutral.
Lots of places have “family” bathrooms now for just this reason.
Never thought the day would come that I agree with Ashton Kutcher. Will be on the lookout for other signs that the apocalypse is nigh.
Lol!!
Chris Brown has a daughter. The end is near.
I know. Although gender neutral bathrooms have become more common in CA he’s fighting the good fight. I bet men would be less gross in public bathrooms if babies were around. Double bonus.
FYI I have cleaned public restrooms.Women’s restrooms are far more gross than Men’s restrooms.
Kim1, interesting. I haven’t been in too many men’s bathrooms so I’m just going on the suspicious smell. 😉
LOL my experience is quite different. I have used the men’s room on a few occasions when the ladies room are full and I couldn’t wait, and the guys’ quarters are definitely more disgusting. Sticky floors, reeking of smoke and piss… ugh!
The smell alone is just awful in a men’s room. Like gas mask wearing awful.
Let’s just say I have never had to wipe off blood off of toilet seats in the men’s rooms or pick up used, unwrapped feminine products .Most men just used the urinals.The ones who used the stalls were pretty clean
@ Lola
You in DANGER guuurl
I know, it is a scary thing, but he’s right!
So so true! He’s actually so right about this.
I think I hear the locusts…
I know! Ashton is a douche but I agree with him on this point
THIS
Completely agree!
I hate agreeing with Kutcher. Ugh!
parenthood is obviously agreeing with him. Love that he’s so involved.
Wyatt and those little boots!!!!!
I agree with him. Anytime my husband needed to change one of the kids, he always said there wasn’t an area to change them. I’m so glad we’re past that stage.
Yes! I’d get so pissed that I always had to change the babies because there was never any changing tables in the men’s room. Sometimes I’d want to eat my dinner while it was hot too, you know?
Exactly ! Also, we have a shared responsibility when it came to our kids . So of course he’s going to change a diaper like any parent would .
In Sweden the gender neutral handicap toilet is always equipped with a changing table. I’ve never seen a changing table in the womens bathroom.
In NZ (only in bigger towns) we have parents rooms, which are for either gender as long as you have a child with you.
Those tiny legs are adorable.
Yeah she’s not actually in the carrier in those pictures.
I never understood why men’s rooms don’t have changing tables either, my husband was a single father for the first year and a half of my stepsons life and he said he’s never been in a single one that had one so he always had to use family restrooms and even then he said people gave him weird looks going in like he shouldn’t be in there.
Yeah I think he’s holding her in an attempt to shield from the paps getting a good straight on angle like they would have if she were in the carrier
Yeah, it looks like an ergo baby carrier but he holding her, she’s not in the carrier.
I absolutely think there should be changing tables in the mens room and I think Ashton should pay to have them installed, since he makes so much money.
I get really annoyed when rich people complain about this kind of thing. Sure we’d love to spend tax dollars, private business dollars just so you have a changing table. I roll my eyes.
Disagree!
It is NOT Ashton’s responsability to provide changing tables in mens restrooms, it’s the governments. And I would happily see my tax dollars spent on stuff like that.
And it’s not that the money would get spent so Ashton Kutcher get’s a changing table for his child, all fathers and their children would profit.
I roll my eyes at you.
Linn I’ m rolling my eyes at her too. Yikes, people actually think this way.
what??! It wouldn’t be just for him. It would be useful for all men who would like to have a diaper changing table in the restrooms. much ashton hate here
Government doesn’t pay for it unless it’s a government facility. Private businesses –malls, restaurants etc. – pay for it. They’d do better business with daddies of little ones by offering parity. Government’s role might be to require all washrooms to enable diaper duty. Speaking of which, maybe this is the next step for potty parity?
…Ashton Kutcher should pay for every public lavatory to have somewhere men and women can change their babies? Why? Fathers spend money and pay taxes. They also reproduce. Just as women do. And last time I checked, nappy changing facilities are good business sense.
Whole Foods in the UK have unisex, individual stalls with a couple containing nappy tables. They don’t have them so the sink is anywhere near the table, helpfully enough, but it’s a good start.
Lovin’ Wyatt’s little boots!!! So cute.
You’d be surprised at how many women’s rooms don’t have them either. Good for him for saying something about it and really being hands on with his daughter. Adorable.
I’d say he wanted to put her in the carrier but was so annoyed with the paparazzi that he just carried her to get away before putting her in it in private.
I was surprised. Especially restaurants. I’ve had to go out to my car to change a stinky baby on more than one occasion.
Yeah, I’ve had to roll out the change mat and change them on the stall floor more than once.
It is definitely a good idea but if he REALLY wants to change diapers, many places will have a family restroom that he can change her in. Not ALL obviously, but many.
Well it’s not like he has a choice especially if Mila or another woman isn’t there.
The only places I’ve noticed that have family restrooms consistently in the U.S. are malls. He is probably talking about everyday locations people will travel to. Wouldn’t it just be easier to put them in men’s restrooms? The family one still seems more directed at women who have other children with them so they won’t take up so much space in the regular ones.
This. There are almost no family rooms in establishments outside of the malls in NY/CA.
Actually, in Dallas/Fort Worth most places have them. But, again, that’s a major metropolitan area.
By the majority i’ve seen many places less public than a mall (like a local baseball field) that had a building with men bathroom to left. Women’s to right. And a family bathroom/changing room in the center. Inside there’s atleast 1 changing area with diaper trash. and often they have privacy barriers.
I can appreciate Ashton’s point, but it’s nothing new. He’s late to the game, but better late than never.
Still, the snarker in me is thinking it’s only an issue now that it personally effects him. Dad’s and other ceebs have been talking about this for ages.
We have one in our Walmart and mall. No where else. The older Walmart further away doesn’t have a family restroom. Those are the only two times I’ve seen them.
This drives my husband crazy, too. Our kids have both been changed on their mat on the floor in men’s restrooms for that reason. If he’s out alone with them he can’t come back out and hand them to me so floor it is.
WHY is he the first/only man to even notice and/or say a damn thing about something so obvious!!!
yes i am sure he is the first men ever to notice it.
Actually a friend of mine who is a single dad had a Facebook rant about this last week.
He’s not. He’s just the latest talking about it in the media and it’s getting legs because of his fame and use of social media.
This is (sadly) one of those issues that comes up ever blue moon, a few more changing tables are installed, people are apeased, and we forget all about it.
I agree with statements from Asston and Madonna. The end is NIGH!!! NIGH!!!
I swear, I can hear the Four Horsemen. What is happening???
my dad complained about this all the time when my sister was wearing diapers. im surprised that bathrooms havent already updates this
I work at a restaurant, and immediately upon leasing the space, the restaurant owner installed a changing table in the men’s room. We get so many compliments on it, now I see why – didn’t know it was that rare!
I was also at a bar last night that did away with all gender signs on the bayhrooms, which I’d never seen before. One said “SIT” and had a toilet, the other “SIT/STAND” and had a toilet and urinal.
I’m in retail and our store has one. It honestly never crossed my mind that it was rare.
I can’t believe I agree with him on something.
Mostly, I’ve found, that the changing table is in the toilet for people with special needs.
He is 100% right. I don’t have kids but in my city I see dads out alone with their small kids all the time. What do they do when diapers need to be changed?
My husband took my daughter shopping when she was 2, she had to potty and without thinking about it he walked into the women’s restroom. When he came out security was waiting!
I would think that in family restrooms there would be changing tables, but I’ve never been in one so I can’t say for certain. But he has a very valid point.
Ok, so really? Ashton’s call is not groundbreaking. My oldest is 8 and my youngest is 4. My husband’s been changing them – and he has always found men’s bathrooms with changing tables. We live in Colorado – if there’s no men’s, then the gender neutral or family bathrooms always have them. I guess Colorado really is progressive!
Must be. I lived in California and only found them in malls, now I live in Michigan and I’ve only found one grocery store that has a family room. One.
I don’t know how common they are, but we’ve got them where I work in Texas too. I’m in Houston though, so the progressive argument may still apply.
It is. There are no changing tables in men’s bathrooms where I live. And the only family bathrooms are at malls and Target. My husband changed our kid on benches or in the car.
same here. live in florida, from missouri originally and only in target in my exp
She looks like a snuggle muffin.
There’s something about the way he pronounces stuff that makes it seem like he thinks he’s the VERY FIRST PERSON to have these problems. Dude, you didn’t exactly discover fatherhood.
No but its new to him
There should be more diaper changing rooms that are not attached to any restroom (be it for males or females). I have seen quite a lot here in Germany.
I have no kids myself but I have seen some desperate looking dads with kids that were searching for a place where they could change the kid’s diaper. It does not make sense to expect the fathers to be hands-on but to deny them the opportunity to do so.
Yep. Here in Germany the changing table is quite often in a seperate room and not attached to the toilets. And it seems to be common at IKEA – there I saw that separation for the first time.
But honestly – the fathers just should use the changing table in the womens toilets. Where is the problem? There are no urinals there, every toilet is closed with a door. The ladies will survive it, if a man enters their toilets to change a diaper……
Not just Germany, it’s a european thing… the changing tables separate from the toilets.. thank god
If you do that in the US you get security called on you
Who changes Ashton’s diaper? Did anyone notice the baby’s body language? The arms straight out show insecurity-like she’s afraid of being dropped.
It bothers my family too. My husband is at home with the kids without me two to three days a week when I work. If he decides to take the kids somewhere then he’s screwed if there’s no table.
It looks like Wyatt isn’t in the carrier yet or else she would be facing him and be covered.
I’m impressed they were able to get those baby shoes on and keep them on. I hate baby shoes. By the time I get the other one on the first has been kicked off.
I didn’t even bother with shoes until mine was old enough to walk.
My baby has been walking for months and has only worn shoes a handful of times. With spring around the corner I need to get her some so we can play outside.
Having had my kids in the 60s and 70s, there were no changing stations anywhere. It just wasn’t a thing yet. But we all managed. You run out to the car, or you find a bench. With a small baby, you can do the whole thing on your lap. I’m not anti-changing station, I just think it’s a small thing to get so worked up over.
YESS!! He’s so right. I used to work at a restaurant where they set up the bathrooms so that the men’s bathroom had a huge counter and a mirror and was bigger and they later set up a changing station in the smaller bathroom (women’s) because women complained they couldn’t change their babies and it blocked one of the stalls -_- I wanted to tell the women to get their husbands to change the babies because they have space in their bathroom lol anyway, this makes me like Ashton more, I always hope men with this attitude have boys so they can raise men with the same attitude. Also Mila + Ashton would make a beautiful man, just saying.
I think there should be adult and children’s bathrooms instead of a gender binary setup but that’s a long way ahead I guess..
Ashton Kutcher is a douchebag, but +1,000,000 for diaper changing stations in men’s public restrooms. It’s LUDICROUS that there aren’t any. It institutionalizes the false idea that women are solely responsible for changing diapers/caring for children. I’m starting to consider the idea of changing my daughter openly, smack dab in the middle of any place that has a changing table in the women’s restroom but not the men’s. AIrport, restaurant, what have you.
In my country, several places have a space/room near the toilets (apart from men’s and women’s) for anyone who wants to change their babies,which is actually cool…
He’s 100 percent right. How are fathers supposed to care for their children without facilities? And how are we so backward that there are changing tables only in female bathrooms in the year 2015?
When I first read this headline, I thought “gawd” – but then I thought about it. And when I thought about it, I thought that it really *IS* quite sexist that all the diaper changing stations are in the women’s restrooms because it assumes that it’s the woman who is taking care of the baby. That’s sexist. It doesn’t take into account all the fathers who take care of babies. What are they supposed to do? Prop the kid up in a urinal to slap on a Pampers?
Yep. I like Ashton, hope he is in movies again soon.
Why are babies changed in toilets? Thats a question to ask rather why not unisex changerooms.