“It’s f***ing scary” Blake Lively calls out paparazzi for stalking her daughters

“Please stop paying grown-ass men to hide and hunt children."

Blake Lively has called out paparazzi after an incident involving her three children. The Gossip Girl alum said something needs to be done about the paparazzi taking photos of and following children because it is so harmful and frightening for them. She explained that photos of her and her three daughters were published, but the photo had been edited to show a smiling Lively and her three daughters. However, in reality, the mum was extremely stressed about the situation. She called the publication "deceitful" for editing the photo and telling lies about the situation. "You edit these images together to look like I'm happily waving. But that is deceitful." “The real story is: My children were being stalked by a men [sic] 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.” Lively continued, "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 photographs 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 actress asked. The actress added that the photographers that were willing to speak to her agreed to take a photo of the mum smiling and waving away from her children. "I let them take my picture away from my children if they would leave my kids alone because it was frightening," she shared. She urged the publication to tell the whole story. She added: “At 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.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CRaYEhsNowN/ She has asked the public to "stop following and block any publications or handles who publish kid’s pictures." "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 that 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. 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 fucking scary."