A few days ago, Brandi Glanville tweeted a photo of her sons trying to put together a desk. It looks like one of those incomprehensible Ikea or Ikea-like projects, where the instructions make no sense and it’s a two-day project just trying to figure out how to put three pieces together. In the photo, both Mason and Jake were in their underwear (boxer-briefs). No big deal? The photo was taken inside Brandi’s house, but she put it in the public sphere when she posted it on Twitter. So, obviously, she got some h8rs.
Brandi Glanville just can’t win. Only weeks after fans slammed the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star for joking about her “a**hole” son on air, the reality TV mom is under fire yet again after tweeting a pic of her sons in their underwear. After fans ripped her apart for the “nasty” pic, Glanville of course came back swinging — and RadarOnline.com has all the details.
The latest mama drama started innocently enough, when Glanville posted this photo of her sons with Eddie Cibrian, Jake, 7, and Mason, 11, building a desk. Proud mom Glanville wrote, “My little helpers are trying to build Jake’s desk!”
But Twitter critics were quick to pounce calling the pic “inappropriate” and slamming her parenting skills.
“Sorry … it’s not appropriate to post pics of kids only in their underwear,” @Marissa_saysso wrote. User @JosephVLopez agreed, “It’s very inappropriate!” And @SusanSavoieRich wrote, “I too don’t think it’s appropriate to post your kids in their underpants on Twitter … just sayin!!”
Never one to keep quiet, Glanville was quick to hit back.
“They both were clothed from waist down whatever!” she wrote. “I was naked my whole life- #f*ckoffhaters”
She continued, “It was evening & guess what mine do[wear their underpants around the house]…I guess your [sic] a better person ur your [sic] kids wear more clothes #not”
“You can’t post a pic or tweet without haters!” she continued to rant. “I think this Halloween I will pass out Lexapro to all the kids parents #gethappy”
I live alone (except for my huge dog, who is more like a roommate than anything else because he takes up so much space and so much of my time), so I walk around in my underwear a lot too. Some people just have those kinds of households where underwear is an acceptable form of “bumming around the house” clothing. I think the problem is just that Brandi posted the photo, and quite honestly, it does seem like the kind of too-personal, “you should keep that inside the family” photo that should not be on Twitter. That’s why I’m not even posting it!
Photos courtesy of Twitter & WENN.
Maybe there should be a course taught in school to children on how to use Facebook,Twitter and why you should always think about what photos you want the world to see. Too many people post pics without putting any thoughts as to how it could come back and bite them in the a**
Problem is when grownups, and not children, are the ones posting photos without thinking and exposing not only themselves but their own children.
Anyway, I agree about the education necessity. I read Luxembourg does that and I think it’s too important in this day and age.
I don’t think it’s about how much skin is showing or whether or not there are pedophiles looking at these pics; it’s about respecting the children. I highly doubt Brandi said, “hey, boys, can I post this pic of you in your underwear on twitter?” I never ever put pics of my kids on social media because it could potentially embarrass them someday and I think it would be an invasion of their privacy. I’m always shocked when I see a pictures of kids taking a bath or something. You can only see their chests then too, the same as if they were at the beach, but that should be a private moment. I can’t say I would want someone posting a picture of me taking a bath.
I don’t think the major problem is embarrassing them…
Brandi, have you ever heard about pedophiles??????????
That’s my major concern..
I think it’s both. Embarrassment to the kids that have to live and deal with it and exposition to all the pervs on the internet. Plus, her kids should have the right to decide what they want or not to share. It applies also to people that think that it’s OK to post photos of other people (their friends, family,…) without asking. That is not OK!!
God, people are so damn sensitive.
Exactly!! What’s the difference between posting a pic of a kid in shorts and no Tshirt and boxers? NONE!!! People are so fanged sensitive today…it’s just ludicrous
Phew! I was feeling like a bad mom/citizen of the world for finding this picture cute. I think it’s inappropriate to post a pic like this of someone else children (niece, nephew, friends kid, etc) because people are sensitive about this kind of stuff. But your own kids? I think that’s a personal decision. I think it’s a cute pic of her sons and she’s a typical proud Mom. I have pics like this all over my Instagram feed. Totally fine if it’s not for you, but I’m not throwing any shade for this.
What about these men / boys who walk around the beach in those tiny little raisin huggers! I hate those things and I see no problem with boxer shorts, they are totally covered! You can’t do anything any more without someone giving you crap about it!
So you guys would be comfortable if there were pics of you as a preteen in your undies out there on the Internet? Pics your parents posted years ago that have recirculated in your adulthood for the world to see? Bosses, coworkers, potential lovers…and you have no control over them?
Is it really that different from being in their bathing suits? No one would be complaining if she’d posted a pic of them on the beach or in the pool.
Samtha, I think people would have a problem with someone posting pics of kids in their swimwear. Unfortunately it’s pedo-bait.
Around the house in your undies implies a certain home/family intimacy that’s not meant for the public – plenty of people share those moments online but kids aren’t old enough to consent to that. (plus, I agree that swimwear pictures aren’t really appropriate for the internet either. Give kids a chance to grow out of their awkward phase without an online record of it).
Really? Because I just educated myself about what can happen to pictures of children posted online. Today they arrested 400 men and one of them had thousands of kids in their underwear. But reading further, it seems that the real concern for these kids is that their privacy is being violated without their consent. They are the first generation to grow up with their privacy not being respected or expected, and they will have to study the effects of this on this generation of 30 something moms who’s bulbs don’t burn too bright.
I get that there are pedophiles and creeps that would feed off these kind of photos, but in all honesty, how is this any different than posting a photo of them at the beach in their bathing suits?! Same amount of skin showing. So…really. Whatever.
Yeah, I really don’t see the big deal with this one. People hate Brandi, so they’re going to hate the photo no matter what.
That’s how I feel. I see others do this all the time, even celebrities, and no one seems to go in to straight hysterics over it.
I have no real thoughts about Brandi either way but I don’t think this picture is a big deal. She wasn’t focussed on showing their crotches or anything and at their ages, it’s the same as wearing a pair of shorts. People do need to lighten up.
Yeah I feel the same way. I wouldn’t look twice at the pic.
You wouldn’t, but I assume you’re not a pedophile. The internet is too public a place for this kind of sharing.
Agree with GiGi.
Also, I am SO effin happy that social media wasn’t a thing when I was growing up. I really don’t need my parents posting pics of me as a kid in my underwear.
That’s kind of the other side of it. Do these kids really want moments like this shared with the world? I mean, maybe they’re fine with it now but who knows how they’ll feel in 10 years?
Anyway, I’m sure she didn’t mean any harm by posting it-just not the smartest thing to do.
I feel like these days, every pic of a kid is looked at with “pedo approval eyes” and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.
I guess I’m more annoyed that we have to be cautious because of a few sickos. This shouldn’t be a big deal, it’s an innocent pic. But the pervs out there have ruined it
Agree, however, if my parents had posted a photo of me online in my underwear when I was 11 I would have been devastated. It’s just that hyper self-conscious pre-teen age where they embarrass easily. I mean, all of their family business constantly being flouted for profit is embarrassing enough without having to go to school on Monday and have the class ass hat throw your underwear photo in your face courtesy of your mother.
This is exactly what I just posted. Agreed.
I disagree
A friend of mine used to post pictures of her 3 year old daughter in her underwear and swim suit on twitter not thinking anything of it until one day a cop showed up at her door asking her if she knew this man.
Apparently a guy that lives down the block from her was arrested for soliciting kiddy porn online. On his computer that the cops confiscated was pictures that she posted of her daughter on twitter along with other undress children. The only reason that they found her is because this peto had her as well as on people with children Twitter, Facebook and Instagram links saved as favorites.
So I don’t think this has anything to do with people dislike of Brandi and to do with that parents especially celebrity parents should think before posting those type of pictures on the internet.
Interesting story, Candy Love. I think parents are way too naive when it comes to that stuff. There are perverts out there! Some people seem to think that fact shouldn’t stop them from putting pics of your kids online, but if they knew that they were in fact being used that way, they’d put it on lockdown STAT. I say, why take the risk in the first place?
I’m also disturbed by parents on my Facebook feed who put their child’s medical information in their status updates. All of this is a complete violation of their child’s privacy, but they don’t seem to look at it that way. Anyway, I’m not a parent so maybe I have no real say in this, lol. 😉
Basically, I believe we shouldn’t post pics of our children (don’t have any, but I’m a teacher)… Why does one have to post pics of kids on facebook, twitter or whatever accounts?? Unless it’s inside a closed group (a friend of mine created a group to which about 20 of her friends and family have access…. )
Why even post personal pics of yourself, I stopped doing that a few years ago… There’s this social need to show where you’ve been on holidays, your clothes, whatever; calling out: look at how happy and wonderful my life is???
Been there, done that, learned I don’t need that… Usually, I use my accounts for environment, politics, science, music, movies, books and other stuff… No one needs to know anything about my private life. But that’s just my opinion…
The closed group is a good idea.
Our friends and family are all spread out so the easy way to keep them updated is to upload to Facebook. I have the highest privacy settings and don’t post super personal information. Just a few pics of my daughter every 1-2 weeks to keep family in the loop.
Closed groups are a great idea. I also convinced one of my friends, who just got married, that it would be the best idea to share her wedding photos. She first wanted to have it completely open and I had to tell her that in that case I would not agree with photos of me in there. I first felt a bit ashamed to say it, but I really try to control this level of exposition, I think people also need to understand that they can’t expose others without their consent.
Even if in reality “closed groups” are also not a 100% warranty of safety, they are way better than other options.
Try to grasp the fact that to perverts there is a difference. Just try.
I love that Brandi’s every comeback is “I did that my whole life, no big deal!”
Um, perhaps. But were your parents posting pics of you in your underwear to millions of spectators? I learned a big lesson about this once. I write a little blog and once put a pic of my toddler in a tee shirt and undewear. You couldn’t see his face or anything. But I started getting search hits from people looking for kiddie p0rn and I was horrified. I quickly took that pic down and now am extremely careful about what I post of my kids.
I don’t know why things like this escape (somewhat) famous people. She’s not just some lady, posting photos on facebook so her 20 family members can see – she’s putting things like this out there for the entire internet to see. It’s too much.
There are many stories like yours. I wish people would read of your experience and take heed
OMG. I know someone who had pics of her kids (tweens) hanging out in states of undress at the beach or whatever on a photo site. The account was set to private btw. Those pics turned up in the collection of some guy who was arrested over drug charges but was also suspected of distributing child pornography. It turns out theres a network of hackers who specialise in identifying and hacking into private photo accounts. And they dont just target kids they steal couples photos too. So that pic taken for a SO and stored online is far from safe.
Yes, she should be aware of that. We live in a world where sick people can turn something completely innocent into evil. It’s sad.
Thank you for sharing that. I feel like a lot of people have no idea of how to use the Internet and how exposed we can be with something that would be completely innocent if we were indeed in private. I am myself surprised that something like that could happen with such a simple photo like the one you described, so that is really important to share.
Plus, children are not accessories that people need to flaunt on the Internet. Nothing against the occasional photo, but more than that is simply wrong. And her kids are also old enough to choose what they want to share and not to be subjected to the exposition desires of their mom.
I’m usually a Brandi apologizer, but this is plain stupid (and no, I didn’t see the photo nor do I need to see it, she needs to respect their privacy).
It’s a little sweet but incredibly dangerous that people think these things are still beyond the realms of possibility. I’ve been to beaches while on holidays with my toddler where they have signs to cover children up and not let them run around naked because there have been cases of creeps taking photos in the area.
There are sick people out there and unfortunately the average person finds the idea so appalling that they can’t even conceive what these creeps consider sexual material.
“There are sick people out there and unfortunately the average person finds the idea so appalling that they can’t even conceive what these creeps consider sexual material.”
This x1000. I think it’s the main reason why people don’t realize it’s not safe to post these kinds of photos online.
I’m confused by how you knew that they were people looking for that kind of thing… SEO works based on the keywords of your own site… so they wouldn’t be finding photos of your kids by searching for that stuff unless it was in your keywords/meta title/meta description. Unless they were leaving comments stating that’s what they had been looking for, I really do not know how you would come to this conclusion.
Not saying you’re wrong- just curious. I work in web dev, and didn’t think this was possible.
I had written in the caption something like “my little boy loves to wear sweaters but no pants” or something. So then in my analytics I started seeing searches like “boys without pants”, “little boys naked”, etc. And because other places in my blog I might have used the word naked, etc. I kept getting these hits. The pic had been up for maybe a month when it started getting pinged and I took it down immediately.
My blog still gets hits from people looking for p0rn because I sometimes feature real estate and label it “house p0rn”. But the people landing on my blog aren’t using “house p0rn” as search words – they’re using much, much more graphic terms and are probably very disappointed when they see a 1930s mansion, lol.
I’m not really sure how that happens, but sometimes when I look at my analytics there are 10 pages of keywords people have used to get to my blog and many of them don’t have anything to do with where they landed.
ETA – I understand that SEO works based on tagged keywords & meta data. That’s what you use to get relevent in searches. But browsers also search your entire text so even though “little boy in underwear” obviously wasn’t in my keywords or meta data, creeps still found this pic.
Okay, it was the analytics showing it. That makes sense. It’s really early here, still. I’ve installed analytics code, but don’t have an account myself, so I have no idea what the back-end looks like. Scary shit!
She always tweets the most personal details about her kids. From bed wetting to being in the hospital to underwear pics. Maybe she should have some respect for their privacy? Damn.
Gods forbid!!! What if those were swim trunks? WTF is the big deal here? For Real…Inappropriate, some people don’t know the meaning of the word.
The difference is not about how much skin was showing; the difference is that underwear is generally considered to be private while swim trunks are acceptable public clothing. I have underwear that covers more than my bikini but while there are pictures of me in my swimsuit on social media, I would freak out if one of my friends posted a picture of me in my underwear. It may cover more but I consider myself to be undressed in only underwear while I am ready to join everyone and swim in a bikini. I think Brandi should have been aware that when people saw the photo, the reaction was that she posted a picture of her boys undressed rather than the essentials are covered. I can promise you any kids who know those boys saw it that way.
Brandi has got to be more careful. The oldest boy is nearing middle school age. Middle school has sucked for everyone I’ve ever known. It was hell for me. There has been enough in the public eye about these boys. Keeping their personal photos and stories in the media will only get harder on them.
They looked like swim trunks to me. *shrugs*
..but I still wouldn’t have posted the pics, for the simple fact that they may embarass the kids….but that would require thinking it through…..not Brandi’s strong suit.
We living in crazy times. Photos’ of children half dressed that are posted on twitter or other social media is not “private” and unfortunately Pedos now stroll these places for sexual gratification. A cute picture of your kids playing in their underwear or nude is not seen in that way by some very sick individuals.. who then take those pictures of your cute babies and share them in perverted ways. Sad but people have to learn to stop posting personal things in a very public place.
Those pictures are not “SAFE” many social media places tell you at the front that your personal pictures are actually there’s and they can use them how they choose. That in its self should be the flashing red light to stop. We over share. Everyone has to see everything. People need to go back to mailing pics to grandma and let it go at that. The world has an eye into your lives. Nothing is that private anymore.
Exactly. She is not on a personal facebook site protected where she isn’t famous with just her friends. She is on twitter posting this out to the internet, which is a scary place to be exposing her children too much for many reasons. And the one kid is a tween, not a little boy. He’s like 11 or 12 years old. I’m sorry. My brother’s son would have a fit if he ever posted something like that on the internet for the world to see at that age. There’s nothing wrong with underwear around the house. No one cares. It’s being a public person and this going out all over. She is not a private person. Her twitter is for the public and many haters as she knows and one sicko guy that follows her and posts bizarre sexual stuff all the time about things. This isn’t a private facebook page.
People can still get photos off of Facebook, believe me. “Private” it is not.
I agree that there is no true privacy on social media. Thanks to both parents and stepmom, these two boys have their photos routinely plastered in the media. I personally don’t agree with it. Kids should have more privacy.
Within the past week, a person I know posted a photo of a well-known person’s young grandchild on social media. The last name helps gives away the identity. The parents have ZERO photos of this child on the Web, but thanks to one attention seeking person, the child’s photo could end up all over the place. I think the person who posted it should be chewed out. The grandchild was in a place where he should have had his privacy respected (a church).
“people have to learn to stop posting personal things in a very public place. ”
I completely agree with keeping children safe. I would never post pictures of my son or his cousins. I wasn’t big on naked baby in a bathtub pictures either. They are an invasion of privacy
However, once again the bad guys win. This is like being told don’t drive, your car will just get stolen, don’t get a credit card, you will just be defrauded.
I wish I or anyone had an answer.
I get where you’re going with the comparisons, but unlike driving a car or getting a credit card which are things that people require in order to meet life’s basic obligations (ie establishing credit, getting to work), sharing pics of your kids on Facebook isn’t a necessity.
Life won’t be impossible without your friends seeing pics of your child and there are other ways to privately share pics of your kids with friends and family.
But I understand your point: it takes the joy out of life when you always have to think in terms of “worst case scenario”. It sucks.
The issue at stake is that the pictures could be picked up and shared on the pedophile sites. That’s why the outpouring of outrage, not that the boys had underwear on. Only that she used bad judgment in putting them on twitter. Not the first time she has either. There’s a pic of Mason in skivvies jumping on desk that was even more revealing.
Yeah, I pointed that picture out awhile back and got jumped on for why I was looking at a young boy “that way”. Go ahead and deflect Brandi fans. It’s poor taste and she knows it. Stay classy Brandi.
Think of the good that outrage could do if it was directed towards stopping pedophiles. They’re the bad guys here. It’s not right that everybody has to change, guard, hide, everything about their lives to accommodate the freaks.
I’m not referring to you heidi, or someone, personally. I’m just sick of these creeps dictating how we should live our lives.
“I’m just sick of these creeps dictating how we should live our lives.” It’s not to accomodate the freaks ; it’s to protect your family and friends… There are so many things besides the creeps that dictate our lives, but that’s someting to discuss on another thread… There has always been creeps, but nowadays, the internet makes their lives easier if we’re not careful enough. And we’re part of the protection barrier against pervs and twisted people. We just have to accept this.
Society has changed for the worst, or maybe the worst in society has just become more visible with the internet (I actually think it’s the latest..) I remember when I was a kid we’d play out in the streets of our neighbourhood until midnight or so (on holiays) and our parents would be home, no adult was watching over us. Nowadays, the same town, things have changed. Last year, during broad daylight, a man tried to kidnap a baby, child of the owner of a store. The baby was in the store with the mom and she had to go for a minute to the warehouse (in the back of the store), when she returned the baby was gone. Luckily, another shop owner saw this old man with the baby and stopped him to “chat” with the baby (she thought the man was the baby’s grandfather). The guy got scared, and left the baby with her… Now, she takes her baby with her to the warehouse, even if it’s for a minute… So, yeah, they control our lives and not just on the internet. Kids don’t play on the streets anymore after dark, like we used to, you can’t trust anyone… But what you can do is try to do your best to protect the one’s you love….
Meanwhile my fb friends are posting photos where their completely naked 3-4 yr old female children are highly visible in. Which I find weird, but I’m a childless cat lady so what do I know. Is it weird? Or is it nbd at that age?
No – it’s weird. Just yesterday I had two friends post pics of their naked kids sitting on the toilet (they’re toilet training) and I was really shocked. It’s one thing to take a pic like that or even to put it in an album for family, but naked pics of little kids should not be out for public consumption.
That’s just such …ugh. What the f is wrong with people?
I would struggle to remain friends with someone who did this. I probably would not remain friends with someone who did this. I think I’d decide that this is a person who lacks boundaries and respect, and I’d decide that I don’t need to be friends with anyone who is so self-absorbed and stupid.
I mean, really. Why on earth would the Facebook universe need to be looking at pictures of someone’s child being toilet trained? Will mommy and daddy in this case be happy fifteen or so years down the line when Junior is posting “sexy selfies” and, later, maybe some money shots? After all, since infancy, this will have been a kid whose stuff has been displayed on the web for all to see.
I feel sorry for the kids, honestly.
I know. I’m close to unfriending. But one of the women is a 1st grade teacher and consistently posts pics of her daughters in their underwear. I actually think I’m going to message both of them about why they may not want to do this & see if they stop. They’re both great women, but obviously very naive.
OMG YES!!! THIS!!! WHY ARE PEOPLE DOING THIS?!?!?
I’m also a childless cat lady and I find it weird that *SOME* of my friends do the same thing.
I’m the mom of 4-and I find it totally inappropriate. I have a friend who does the same thing-plus she shares stuff about her kids (like her teen being depressed) that should NOT be on FB. I’ve tried telling her that nicely-but she always says she likes being “totally honest” and getting support for her kids’ issues. Ugh.
One doesn’t need to post pics to get support for one’s child issues. If we want a friend’s opinion on how to deal with a certain problem our child is going through, we talk about it, no need for pics… stupidity..
I’m a parent and nope nope nope. Nope. Hell to the nope. My kid might not care at the time I post it, but some day she may care if I am posting pictures of her naked. And my fb friends dont want to see her junk either. Sexualization has nothing to do with it.
What if they were wearing bathing shorts? Apart from dragging her kids into public I see nothing wrong with that picture. But then again, I’m also walking around the house in underwear and get naked in a sauna. 😀
The same aplies, if you read closely, it’s about the kids safety and them not being embarrassed,… You walk around the house naked, fine…Do you post photos of yourself naked or in underwear on the net? I’m guessing the answer is no… Why? It’s dangerous and embarrassing…
School-aged boys shouldn’t have photos of themselves in their underwear plastered all over the internet without their consent, which I highly doubt the boys gave. Of course, Brandi being Brandi, will use this entire situation to her advantage, even finding a way to parley this as the basis of her next book, “From Underoos To Ungaro”.
Completely agree. My kids would be humiliated.
I don’t have kids but I am interested to see what happens when the kids of this FB generation (of which I’m part) grow up. Will they be ok with having hundreds of photos of them already available on the Internet? Will it be embarassing? Or maybe they’ll just keep contributing with their own selfies and pics? Personally, I’d be totally embarrassed and am at my Mom if she shared every photo of me growing up on the Internet, but I didn’t grow up with that. It’s just weird to me. I don’t like the idea of sharing photos of people who haven’t and can’t consent to it. I still ask my friends if it’s ok to post photos of them.
The point is that while Jake **could** have been wearing a bathing suit he wasn’t. He was wearing underwear and now that picture has been put out on ROL and several other websites. Anything Brandi puts on twitter is fair game to be rebroadcast on different websites on the internet and Brandi has no control over that. She should KNOW this, she’s had enough issues lately. (Tampon string?) She should never post a picture on twitter that Jake or Mason themselves wouldn’t want on the cover of the National Enquirer.
The picture was cute of Mason but she easily could have cropped Jake in his short underwear out before she posted it on twitter. Look at the picture closely – the underwear are small/thin and they show stuff. No little guys I see at the pool are wearing swim shorts that look like that, almost all have the longer kind.
Obviously Brandi is free to put pictures of her kids on twitter wearing whatever she wants. She can’t then say “don’t talk about my boys” after she does, though.
I find it amusing that ROL expresses moral outrage that these photos are online….by posting the photos online again.
Maybe people should be focusing on the websites like radar or the magazines like the enquirer that would re-publish these photos for a much bigger public consumption, instead of Brandi.
I agree with this but Brandi should not be off the hook. People, whether they are celebrities or not, should be given the benefit of the doubt once or twice. The problem with Brandi is that she knows that ROL and other blogs follow her Twitter and write stories based on what she tweets. After all the stories that have been written about Brandi, by now Brandi knows what kinds of things she’s involved in that may end up as a story on Radar Online or other blogs. This is not ignorance or stupidity, Brandi is addicted to attention, and she will do anything, including compromising her children, to get it.
Can you imagine if Eddie or Leanne posted the photo how the board would lite up.. Brandi is really pushing it and i am not a fan of any of them
Exactly wat I was going to say.
Exactly!
i would have been humiliated if my mom did this at either age. I can’t imagine doing this to my own kid past the age of 2, when she started developing a sense of modesty. 7 and 11 are far too old to post kids in their underwear. It has nothing to do with how comfortable they are walking around their own house in various states of dress. The fact that it is NOT a bathing suit makes all the difference in the world, because context matters.
I gave Brandi the benefit of the doubt longer than she deserved, probably. Gotta think at this point her complaints about Leann posting pice were just about territory and spite, since she obvious doesn’t GAF about the boys’ privacy, at least not nearly as much as she says she does.
YES!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!! +1
Totally OT msw, but I couldn’t keep clothes on my 2 year old. Every time I turned around he was naked, except for his boots. I was glad when that phase passed.
Growing up I was friends with a set of very pretty blond twins who starting modeling as children. The modeling stopped at around age 12 when they modeled training bras for a catalog. (JC Penney, I think it was.). Some kid at school cut the photos out and taped them to their lockers. It was a HUGE deal and their parents contemplated pulling them out of school. This was in the ’70s, so no Internet, but I imagine this type of situation is more humiliating.
Those poor girls. That must have been humiliating at that age.
Serious questions: (a) are there more paedophiles now, (b) has social media made them more bold, (c) has this sicko predilection been spreading somehow, or (d) is it just that we’re more aware of this now, whereas it was more hidden/unspoken of in the past?
I cannot BELIEVE how every facet of life now seems to have become infected by pedos. Rolf Harris, for pity’s sake!!?
It seems absurd that you can’t take a picture of your own child at a swimming carnival now (for example), yet the apparent scale of paedophilia in our society is staggering!
I hate social media at the best of times, but the internet does seem to be responsible for these people seeking each other out and collectively ‘validating’ each other’s sicko interests (NAMBLA etc.).
It pisses me off that these deviants have now led to every parent having to be hyper-vigilant and paranoid about everything, to the point where men don’t feel that they can become kindergarten or primary school teachers for fear of being under suspicion.
indeed. Suddenly it is the victim’s job to avoid the criminal before the criminal is even identified.
There has always been pedos, but not a lot of reporting on them. Those were the kind of stories that were kept out of newspapers. Delicate sensibilities and all that. Now, there are so many avenues available to receive information from, you can’t help hearing about it more. You have sensationalist TV news stations, radio, newspapers that will print anything in the hopes that it sells, and the internet. They’ve always been among us, its just publicized better now. And, in the interest of public safety, it’s time to start publicizing them. I say bring back public branding.
I am currently watching a facebook flame war over a mom I’m friends with posting photos of her 5 yr old son in the bathtub with a clip art star over his privates. I am one of those people who will never put photos of my children on the internet because I fully believe they deserve their privacy just as we had. Those photos belong in embarrassing family albums, not one click away from being shared with millions.
So Brandi, i love ya girl but even if those underwear photos look just like swim suits, they are underwear and sketchy people all over the internet dont need to see that.
Hope they don’t get teased at school.
Why is she saying that those people are haters? Is she serious? Plus the f word? My word, she is so vulgar.
She should’ve known better than that, and at least ask their children. But I think the people getting offended by this are definitely the worst. They are kids! There’s absolutely nothing sexual about the picture. I swear, at this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if 10 years from now people made a fuss out of a woman sharing a pic of her baby in diapers.
Uh, nobody is upset because they see the kids as sexualized. They are upset because of the opportunity presented to let other people sexualize the kids (as well as being concerned about the kids’ privacy in general). If you think that’s not happening, pull your head out of the sand and read some of the comments from upthread. I’m not saying the world is full of sickos, but there are a lot, and the internet has made it very easy for them to get pictures of children to sexualize. I’m not going to make it so simple to get pics of my kids to objectify.
You know what’s funny?? Jada Pinkett Smith just posted an older picture of her son in his underwear, wishing him a happy 16th birthday. Any backlash there??? NOPE. I guess it just depends on who you are. I didn’t see anything wrong with it, but then again, I’m not uptight. Or a perv.
It has much more to do with which celebrities people hate, rather than what their actual morals are for these sort of things.
Seems that way! Kind of silly if you ask me…
Then she should be called out a well…
*eyerolling, I wonder what people think??*
Really? *eyerolling* because we have differing opinions?
no, eyerolling because of what Brandi and Jada have on their minds…Nothing about your opinion… 🙂
And I said Jada should be called out as well for doing that…
Ok, thank you for clarifying. 🙂
Jada was definitely called out over letting her daughter take a picture on a bed with a 20 year guy not wearing a shirt. Even CPS was called in on that one. Jada’s not a roll model to aspire to on the photo sharing issue.
I wasn’t referring to that picture. I was referring to the picture she posted of her SON in his underwear with a hat on from when he was younger. Her being a *role model or not was NOT my point.
I didn’t know about that foto of when he was 16.. My opinion remains: both mums are plain idiots…
She is really just an awful person. Her mothering skills rival those of Kate Gosselin.
Not even close.
I dont really care if her kids walk around with just their underwear on. I mean, sometimes I will watch TV in only my underwear. And there certainly isn’t sexual about the photo itself. But, considering her boys are at that school age…I wonder how they feel about their photos being posted.
I was convinced that posting pictures of kids in their underwear is a bad idea from another comment thread where someone said the pictures were ‘repurposed’ by horrible people. On the other hand, she has a right to post those pictures – they were obviously innocent – and it’s not really a big deal.
Does this grown ass woman have to take a picture of everything and share it? I mean, what about living in the moment and keeping it to yourself. Wow, these people who take pics and post everything make their life seem more exciting than it is. NOBODY CARES! ugh. She is extremely exhausting!
The only reason Brandi was bashed by Leann’s fans and Radaronline for posting the photo of her children is because Leann is starting the promotional tour for her reality tv show this week. It’s nice to see that no one wants to address the issue of how Leann using Radaronline to slam Brandi to justify what she is saying about Brandi on her reality show.
I’m bashing her for doing this and I basically can’t stand all 3 of them Brandi, LeAnn and Eddie… They are awful parents, selfish, self-absorbed and use the kids in a type of war that makes no sense to anyone who has half a brain… whether it’s the left or the right side of it… 🙂
Once you post a picture online you have zero control over who takes it, how they use it, or where it will end up in years to come. All parents take embarrassing pics of their kids, but once you post them online you’ve taken away your child’s ability to control their own internet presence as they age. It’s not okay.
Agree. The type of clothing is not the core issue here. And, being a public figure magnifies the potential audience both now and in the future.
Exactly. The tweet went to a much larger audience than the average Facebook post seen by family and friends (though I still cringe at over sharing about kids on FB).
I feel the same about oversharing regarding kids (doesn’t matter to me if the parent is the one doing it, or if they are famous or the average private citizen). Putting information online is like scattering photos and little information tidbits on sidewalks not only in your own community, but worldwide. It can be found. Not everyone has bad intentions, but why put that much stuff out there, especially where kids are involved?
I read a status update today that sort of relates to this. They said that instead of posting photos of their meals prior to eating, they would begin posting pictures of the next day results and let their friends guess what the foods were. While he wasn’t actually going to do that, the point he ended with was, what will be next when it comes to (over)sharing on social media?
My 16 year old son walks around in his underwear (boxer briefs) all the time. I try to get him to at least put on sweatpants or lounge pants. That’s works sometimes–usually if our daughters have someone coming over. But I would never put a photo of him in his underwear on social media–not even just for family to see let alone the entire world. And it may seem a fine point but bathing suits are meant to be seen outside and underwear is not. It’s just different. Plus, I don’t know about her kids but with my son’s you can see the outline of his privates a lot more than in a baggy bathing suit. That’s part of the reason why he has to cover up if the girls have their friends over. I wouldn’t post a photo of my girls in their bras either. These poor kids. All 3 of them are a mess. I used to somewhat like BG but not after watching the last 2 years of RHOBH. Yuck. They all need to take some parenting classes. Thank God their feuding prevents either one from having them on their respective reality shows though.
There’s nothing wrong with them hanging out in their underwear, but they are a little too old for her to be posting pics of that on social media. A toddler is one thing, but they are way older and in school.
The one and only reason people are bashing Brandi is because Leann’s reality tv show airs in 8 days and she is going on a promotional tour on Friday, which she announced yesterday. This is the same thing that happened with Radaronline and Brandi’s podcast just before Leann went to Hawaii with Brandi’s kids and spent the vacation on twitter promoting her show. How is it that Radaronline can see everything that Brandi’s tweets, but missed that Leann’s fans used Brandi’s son’s name to write a hateful letter to Brandi. Brandi is being harassed by Leann’s fans, it never stopped or slowed down like the press said. Since Leann announced her reality show, the attacks on Brandi have gotten worse. All we see from the media are these write ups that act oblivious that in the midst of these stories saying that Brandi is a bad mother Leann is doing promotions.
Radaronline’s story about Brandi went 2 days before it was finally noticed by the press today. The only factor that plays in the resurfacing of this story was Leann and Eddie walked the red carpet yesterday at an event. Why are these attacks on Brandi associated when Leann does promotions for her show?
The story comes from Radaronline, who at the end of Leann’s vacation with Jake and Mason in Hawaii posted photos of them at an airport where the boys look so sad. Radaronline has an agenda.
Are we really supposed to believe that these are real Brandi haters? Why weren’t these people concerned about the photos of Jake and Mason making to bad sites when Leann was inviting FF and AKM-GSI to Jake’s baseball and soccer games where the possibility of those people showing up his games arises?
You are constantly trying to make this about Leann, but reality is – Brandi does this to herself. No one made her post a picture of her son in his underwear. No one made her call him swear words on her podcast. She does all of this ON HER OWN. Several people tweeted immediately to Brandi when she posted the underwear picture warning her that it was inappropriate and rather than take the high road and admit that MAYBE the picture wasn’t the best idea Brandi instead posts another tweet making fun of people who had a problem with it, thereby inciting her minions to attack the people expressing their disapproval. This didn’t take off because ROL reported it – plenty of people tweeted to Brandi about it being a controversial picture BEFORE it was reported on ROL.
Try all you might to blame this on Leann but at this point Leann doesn’t need to do a thing – Brandi makes her own messes.
You’re so up on all of this-wow. Any way-I would say at least 80% of the Brandi critics (I’m not calling them “haters” because it’s so juvenile and silly) also call out Leann for her disgusting antics. The only ones worthy of any kind of sympathy in this sordid mess are those 2 boys.
I don’t know but at least here at Celebitchy you can read a lot of logical argumentation, so I can see how others would express the same concerns (a lot of people don’t know how to use the Internet when it comes to children exposition, and both Leann and Brandi are good examples of it). I like Brandi. I believe she did the best that she could with her situation and that she has to endure a lot. Still, not everything that she does is super and I wouldn’t really use her as a role model for how to deal with though divorces. The exposition that any of the three make of the kids is not OK and they should all reflect about it instead of using the children as some publicity weapon between them.
And please, that show will flop big time.
Since Leann is constantly tweeting to several of the people who have been harassing Brandi about the photo of her sons in underwear, Leann made it about Leann. Leann and her fans made sure that Radaronline wrote the story about it. The Radaronline article only appeared after Leann’s fan left twitter because no one would agree with her about the photos. One of the people who was tweeting to Brandi announced that she had did a random search on a pedophile site and found the photo of Brandi’s kids in their underwear on a site. When confronted about her story about finding photos of Jake and Mason on a pedophile site and asked where she found the site so that they could also report it, she deleted her account. The person who found the photo tweets to Leann every day. Another one of Leann’s fans then tried to cover for her. Don’t tell me this has nothing to do with Leann, especially when Leann is announcing that it’s 10, 9, and 8 days to her show appears and has been tweeting about all the interviews she has to do next week, Friday, the red carpet event she attended last night, and the phootshoot she is doing for her Christmas album today.
It’s the same thing with the petition to get Brandi fired. We said it was Leann’s fans who were tweeting to Andy to fire Brandi, and then those same people who were asking Andy to fire Brandi were begging Andy to have Leann on WWHL that week Leann was in Hawaii.
Those several people who tweeted to Brandi were Leann’s fans. When they were tweeting to Brandi about the photo, they were tweeting about Leann’s show and getting the Leann and Eddie hashtag to trend.
Radaronline only posted the negative tweets. Why? Several people responded to the Leann fans who were tweeting to Brandi and told them to stop and that there wasn’t anything wrong with the photo. Radaronline didn’t include any tweets of support to Brandi even though she received plenty. Why?
As long as Leann continues to tweet to people who harass Brandi, she will be blamed.
I’m not buying that these Brandi haters are real. I’ve seen 15 of Leann fans tweeting hateful things to Brandi. When Brandi blocks them or they get reported for harassing her, they make new accounts and start over again.
OK, so if the haters aren’t real (or there are literally only 15 of them) then what’s the problem? If there are no real haters then all there are are real Brandi fans, right? Furthermore, ROL can post any story it wants but if people don’t care about the subject (or don’t believe them) then it’s water off a ducks back right? ROL can’t reach through computer screens and MAKE people hate Brandi, if people truly like her….
I hope you’re actually Brandi-because if not, you’ve got way too much invested in all of this.
no kidding, right!
If Radaronline is upset about Jake and Mason being in their underwear, then where is their story about the Leann fan who used Jake’s name to write a nasty letter to Brandi, that she then tweeted to other blogs and famous people? The Leann fans who have been harassing Brandi about the photo didn’t care about Jake when his name was being used to write a nasty letter to his mother and that letter was circulated on twitter.
Ok, I get you’re Brandi’s fan… It’s not about Brandi and LeAnn and Eddie, It’s about these two kids that are constantly being used by the three of them to show up in the news. These poor kids will grow up traumatized, and I sure hope those fotos won’t be used by looney people.. Is it that hard for you to understand something as simple as that? Her twitter account, as well as LeAnn and so many other famous people are open to the entire world population, so the entire world gets to see those fotos.. Stop trying to push this into LeAnn and that people harass Brandi. All three, Brandi, LeAnn and Eddie are shallow, egotistic parents…. They just think about themselves, nobody else… Calling paps, posting the kids pics, they’ll do whatever to make themselves advertised. It disgusts me they use the kids for that… I don’t have kids, but if I had I would never, EVER do something like this… It’s already complicated for the kids to be used by them against eachother, they don’t need to also be bullied at school..
This is not about the kids because if this was about the kids, Radaronline and the people bashing Brandi would be just as concerned about how a Leann fan used Jake’s name to write a nasty letter to Brandi. Where is the concern for Jake being bullied now that his name has been attached to a letter he didn’t write? When Leann stops paying Radaronline to write nasty articles about Brandi just so that she can get people to watch her show or tweeting to people who harass Brandi, then people will stop talking about Leann harassing Brandi. When it gets to the point where Leann’s fans are using Jake’s name to write hate letters to Brandi, don’t expect people to stop talking about how Leann is harassing Brandi.
@why?,
SMH, you reaaaalllly want to make this about Leann Rimes! The Twitter person you are referencing, and who you concocted this grand conspiracy around, looks more like she is a Real Housewives fan. Looks like her Brandi hate stems from Real Housewives drama, not Brandi, Eddie and Leann drama.
hey, why, why don’t you post a picture of yourself in your underwear on Twitter? what, you wouldn’t do that because it’s inappropriate and you don’t want to be seen on the internet in your panties? how do you think Brandi’s kids feel? all of us know, leann’s no angel, but neither is brandi. and it’s not a who’s worse than the other contest. if you wouldn’t post a picture of yourself in your underwear on twitter, then you should have a problem posting a picture of their kid in their underwear on twitter. you think that kid wants everyone at school teasing him about his picture of him in his underwear? no one gives two shits about brandi or leanne, at least i don’t, but you don’t post a picture of your kid in their underwear on a public forum where classmates, future employers, the whole world can see them. I think brandi’s a foul-mouthed trashy woman and leanne’s not all there but this has nothing to do with either of them. this has to do with the rights of her kids not to be made fun of. if you can’t see that pov, you waay too caught up in your fan worship
I have a 14 year old that always wants to wander around in his knickers and I always send him back to put trackie pants or pj bottoms on at least because it makes ME awkward to see how, er, developed he has got.
I’d never post pics of him in his knickers on FB because he’d be so horrified he would disown me at the very least.
Having said all that, I find it very very sad at the sheer volume of comments above stating there is nothing wrong with little boys in undies per se but that because of the amount of paedophiles trawling the net, it’s perhaps not the wisest course.
I like Brandi. Yes she makes dumb mistakes, is uncouth and trashy but she also loves those kids with all her heart and that’s all that matters. Parenting is hard, man.
I don’t think it was a good idea to post the picture publicly, but we are talking about a reality star. I imagine after years of having a camera follow you around daily and your personal life being broadcast for all to see, the boundaries might get blurred a little.
@someone & aaa
Then you have no clue why people aren’t buying that the Brandi haters are real. The problem is that Leann is so desperate to get people to watch her reality show that she sends her fans to blogs and pays Radaronline to write negative stories about Brandi. Radaronline isn’t posting the story they want. They are posting the story that Leann paid them to post. Radaronline can’t reach through computer screens, but they sure can take tips sent to them from Leann and her fans and write a negative article about Brandi.
Like I stated before, if Leann doesn’t like that people are holding her and her fans accountable for Radaronline’s latest article about Brandi, then you should tell her to stop tweeting to people who harass Brandi. It wasn’t RHOBH fans who were tweeting to Brandi. If you go to Brandi’s account and look at her responses to the people who were harassing her about the photo, you will see that it was Leann’s fans not RHOBH or Lisa fans. We know it was Leann’s fans because they tweet to Leann all day, changed their avis to the billboard ad for Leann’s show, and tweet to Leann all day. The Brandi hate isn’t coming from RHOBH.
If Radaronline and Leann’s fans were concerned about Jake’s safety, why didn’t they object when Leann’s fan used Jake’s name to write a horrible letter to Brandi? What 7 year old deserves to be used to torment his mother? None.
@Happymom
Oh no, not the “you have way too much time on your hands and I am so much more better than you because I don’t spend my time on blogs posting about celebs” card. Then you all get upset when people think that it’s Leann and her fans posting here.
This the one and only reason Leann’s fans and Radaronline are trashing Brandi about the photo of her sons, those same fans who sat by and congratulated a woman who used Jake’s name to write a nasty letter to Brandi…
“Hiking in the woods in heels was fun but exhausting 6:30am morning for a S@#% TON of interviews w/ mr man
#LeAnnAndEddie @LeAnnEddieVH1”-Leann Rimes
“And so it begins… TCA press this morning”-Leann Rimes
The TCA press tour that Eddie and Leann did today did not go well. The overall consensus is that it’s boring and feels fake. Some people weren’t happy with how Leann and Eddie lied on the panel. They said that Eddie said that they don’t use the show to talk bad about Eddie, but we have seen plenty of clips to know that this isn’t true. Eddie also said that the boys aren’t on the show, but Leann has said many times that they filmed so that they could be home for the boys. Where were Brandi’s kids while Leann and Eddie were filming? In the background. If the boys aren’t on the show, why are their so many photos of them? Expect Leann to pay Radaronline to write a very negative article about Brandi.
??? I Dont think most people care about either one so I don’t know why you’re posting so much about someone you don’t even know. things you read on both sides are not reality, just spin. if you’re this involved in it, you might want to think about that. you don’t know either one. and if you do, you’re likely hearing the story from their pov. for every arguement between two people, there’s three sides to it: his side her side the truth,
People again overreacting. Brandi knows what type of attention this is going to come with. Sometimes I wonder if she does it on purpose but it’s her right to do it.
I see from Twitter and these comments radar are still writing negative stories. Still the same people on twitter posting for the millionth time that this is the final straw and that they are boycotting. Lol umm ok, until the next anti Brandi story is printed. Leann’s twitter and Radar anti Brandi stories are the haters kryptonite.