This week’s advice: Back up the Knowles-Carter kids.
Beyoncé’s whirlwind week ended with a story in which Essence removed images from her March and April 2024 cover shoot promoting her new hair care line, Secred. The photographs are astonishing, and include what appears to be three generations of the Knowles and Knowles-Carters: mothers Tina and Bey, and their two children, daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi. It also includes things.
Except that the two children in the photo turned out to be models, according to a Facebook post from HuffPost front page editor Philip Lewis. It’s no surprise that mothers who are famously private and protective when it comes to their children would choose this path. People have always been cruel about her and Jay-Z’s parenting, which Jay-Z spoke about on HuffPost last year.
The madness began in 2014, when NBC reported on a ridiculous change.org petition shared by E News asking the Carters to comb then-toddler Blue Ivy’s hair. This goes back to rumors about surrogacy regarding pregnancy. Most recently, the power couple faced backlash over Blue Ivy’s Grammys outfit.
Beyoncé, who is loyal to fashion, has also been criticized for her choices in this photoshoot, apparently because there’s an unspoken rule that everything she does has to be said with her neck down. is.
While Joydailytv’s TikTok post was a positive nod to the family’s heritage, the comments on the post were mostly negative. Couldn’t get your son in the picture!!!,” setum1252 wrote. “Is her son dead or what? Where is he?”
A Facebook post about replacing Philip Lewis included: “Fuck you for doing something that involves all the kids,” and “Where’s the boy? I don’t see him much. Always a bitch.”
So far, there has been no response from the Carter camp to the noise. And since it probably won’t, I’ll leave you with Bey’s best lyrical clapback ever. The best revenge is your newspaper. ”
