The brand new dad Roy Donders plans to show his daughter Romi only the first three years on Instagram and television. He wants to blur her there, just like many other celebrities.
It is a struggle for celebrities who showcase their entire lives on Instagram: do you or don’t you put your children in the picture? When those children are older, they may not be as attention-hungry as their parents. But if your parents have featured you on Instagram your whole life, there’s no turning back for them.
blur baby
Roy Donders has sold his girlfriend’s birth to a TV channel. So they don’t opt for a blurbaby at the moment. “Michelle and I have decided to show her, but we don’t know how long that will be yet. Maybe only the first two, three years,” he explains in the Weekend.
How did he get to that age limit? “A baby changes so much in the first few years. You no longer recognize a six-year-old child as that three-week-old baby, that is a completely different child.”
little face
Perhaps Roy wants to do it like André Hazes and Monique Westenberg: portray your child, but not the face. “I don’t want our daughter to be recognized throughout the Netherlands when our daughter is eight years old. So I think by then we’ll start blurring her face on pictures we post on social media.”
The birth of his girlfriend can be seen on television in a month and a half, at TLC. “With me is always: what you see is what you get, so we are going very far with filming, I can say. How far? We just show everything. They will also be in the delivery room, but it must remain chic.”
Suit chic.
Roy’s daughter and his girlfriend: