Monique Westenberg gets a big swipe from Guido den Aantrekker. He thinks her policy of constantly blurting her son André (7) is half-hearted. “It’s just a revenue model.”
Monique Westenberg says it matters a lot that no one knows what the face of the 7-year-old son she has with André Hazes Jr. looks like. “People still say, ‘Why are you shielding him?’ Well, because he can be a child this way and that’s really nice,” she explains in the latest episode of his reallifesoap.
Monique blurts
Nowadays, André and Monique’s son is always being shouted at on social media. “About three years ago that little one was very large on the front of a gossip magazine with a text that really didn’t make me happy. Then I thought: I’m going to blur him now, because I don’t want his face to end up on those sheets anymore.”
Monique wants to protect her son and is a bit disappointed that they named him André. “Sometimes I think: we wish we had called him something else. He has that surname anyway, but six years ago we didn’t think about the fact that this full name might not be useful for him.”
Circle
These are half-hearted measures by Monique, according to her critic Guido den Aantrekker. The Story boss chimes in Show news: “The little guy is of course also getting bigger, so the circle is also getting bigger and at a certain point he also ends up in a class where children recognize him.”
If Monique finds it so annoying when her son is recognized, then you should take clearer measures, he says. “You often hear stars say: ‘We want to protect our children’, but don’t put them on social media. It’s so confusing.”
Revenue model
It is very easy to simply not post photos of Dreetje, says Guido. “If you simply think that your child does not belong there and there are many good reasons for this… (…) Then don’t put them on social media at all.”
Why does Monique do that? Money, according to Guido. “She has also made it a business model to show her life as an influencer. That includes little André, but I think: whoever says A should also say B.”
Different sentiment
Guido understands that Monique is disappointed that her son’s name is André. “I of course delved into it a bit, also because I wrote a book about it and I remember that Monique Westenberg didn’t actually have much to say about it at that time. That was actually just an established fact: he was simply called André, according to tradition.”
The name André Hazes is simply not that useful, Guido thinks. “That may be of more use to you than if you are now little André and have André Jr. as a father, because of course there is a completely different sentiment surrounding him.”