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Everyone’s Mad Over This Picture of Jessica Simpson’s Baby

A photo of Maxwell Drew Johnson

Mad because they’re so jealous!

But no, people are mad because Jessica Simpson showed everyone a picture of her painfully adorable little baby wearing a bikini when she made her appearance on Katie Couric’s new show. I guess because’s it’s bad or something:

Claude Knights, the director of Kidscape, said yesterday: “It is very disturbing to see a young baby presented to the world wearing a bikini. Celebrity choices carry great influence, as can be seen by the manner in which their accessories and behaviours are copied widely. It is to be hoped that parents will understand that ‘baby bikinis’ are totally inappropriate, and that they contribute to the sexualization and commercialization of childhood. We should not be compromising the sanctity of our children’s early years.”

Others condemned the bikini on Twitter after seeing it online. One wrote: “Jessica Simpson posts a photo of her 4-month-old baby in a BIKINI – wrong wrong wrong.”

Another added: “A baby in a bikini?! Dear God, some people are just wrong!”

A third wrote: “I just saw the most ridiculously posed photo of Jessica Simpson’s baby in a bikini. Just awful. Poor poppet.”

So wait, did I have a particularly scandalous childhood, or are people just freaking out over nothing? Because I’m pretty sure I remember my cousins and my friends and maybe even myself wearing bikinis when we were very young. And come to think of it, my mom does have photos of me and my siblings in diapers. Like, in just diapers. There are even some pictures of us taking baths. And you know what you wear when you take a bath. Nothing. Was that wrong? Or would it just be wrong if my mom had shown lots more people the photos?

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  • I wondered if you were going to post about this! This is so silly…it’s a *baby.* Babies can run around naked and no one will throw a fit. I’m going to say the same thing I say to all those guys in my field who like to talk about every single freakin’ female statue as “sexualized.” Just because YOU think it’s sexy, doesn’t mean it’s being sexualized. In other words, whoever thinks this baby is being sexualized needs to check his/her own head. Also, I retract my earlier statement about her baby being ugly. Maxwell seems to have grown into all those big folds of facial skin and is now as cute as a button!

  • Dude, that baby is ADORABLE. She’s pretty already, look at those perfect lips. And I don’t even like babies in general. As for the “bikini” thing, people need to calm the eff down. Babies are photographed in nothing but a diaper all the time and I’m pretty sure there are photos of me at that age completely stark naked. The world’s become totally over PC about every little thing. We’re a bunch of pussies. All those over zealous mommies who have nothing better to do than rant about what other people innocently do with their kids need to shut up. Someone knitted the bikini for her and it was obviously a cute baby joke type of deal, time to untwist your panties everyone.

  • Are these people kidding? Most people take pictures of their babies naked and I hear no out cry about that, such silliness. Go after the crazy Moms with that have their kids dressed like hookers.

  • That is the most adorable picture of someone’s baby I’ve seen in a while. What a cutie pie! And I LOVE her little bikini. We’ve got pictures of us at the beach when we were toddlers and you know what we wore? Nothing! There was always a whole slew of us kids running around starkers. The other poster is right – anyone who would even imply that this photo is anything but cuteness personified is a blithering idiot, perverted or so warped from their own shitty childhood they’re unable to think properly.

  • That’s crazy-ape bonkers.
    I definitely had a bikini when I was about three. It had ruffled pants and I was way proud of it.

  • I don’t understand. What do bikinis represent to people who think they are offensive? Isn’t it just a two-piece bathing suit? Someone please explain. Because I wore bikinis when I was a child and nobody was clutching the pearls about it.

  • You know what it probably is? I bet a lot of the flack is because it is a KNITTED bikini and most yarn is scratchy wool. This is just a guess, but I think if it was anyone else’s baby (besides Jessica Simpson’s), there wouldn’t have been even half the fall-out.

    • I agree with the “it’s Jessica Simpson’s baby, so it must be trashy/sexual” comment. If this were featured in O Magazine, everyone would be in a frenzy over making their own knitted baby bikini. This baby/pic is nothing but adorable!

  • Oh man people complain about everything. That baby is adorable and the bikini is too cute, she obviously wasn’t attempting to sexualize her baby. People are crazy.

  • If my mom had had the sense to put me in a bikini, she might’ve actually gotten to keep her baby photos of me.
    I went threw a stage in my childhood where I was very shy and I couldn’t bear the thought that people visiting could just open up a family album and see me naked – even though I was just a baby in the pictures.
    I just had a very difficult time with nudity of all sorts, but particularly my own. … And it bothered me so much I actually ended up taking the pictures and putting them away..

    Anyway: Jessica’s baby is all sorts of cute and I might even say that anyone who doesn’t see the innocence of this picture has a problem…

    • … my mum put all the baby/toddler pictures (naked and otherwise) of myself and my sister into giant collages which hang the entrance-way of our house.
      Every single potential boyfriend has seen my naked ass in the bath as soon as they came in for the first time – no albums required!
      This used to embarrass me SO MUCH when I was younger, but now I just think it’s hilarious.

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  • I think the problem is not that the kid is half naked, it’s the fact that it’s wearing a bikini top which doesn’t make any sense at this age! Bikinis are for ladies with breasts and are therefore considered sexy – because they’re containing women’s sexual attributes. But what do girls under the age of 8 or 9 have to hide? So that is the reason why I find it wrong to put a baby in a bikini top – because it sexualizes them.

    • This is exactly what I thought when I first saw the picture. I feel like it wouldn’t be getting this kind of reaction if the baby didn’t have a top on at all – because then it’s just a completely innocent picture without any adult clothing connotations. Does that make sense? It’s making sense in my head but I don’t think I’m verbalizing it very well.

    • Exactly.

      A baby wearing just a diaper is okay because it’s babyish, and also asexual–a male baby and female baby will look exactly the same. The bikini, however…

      Personally, I would never dress my child in a bikini. It’s inappropriate for any young girl.

    • Drawing attention to the baby’s (lack of) breasts “sexualizes” her? The fact that the baby does or does not have breasts in no way makes her a sexual object. She’s a baby. Breasts exist. Some people wear bikinis and are sexy. The combination of these three sentiments does not mean that the *baby* is meant to be sexy. I just don’t get it…

    • Yeah I agree with this somewhat. The whole purpose of a woman wearing a bikini is to show off her body and show off her tits etc…I don’t really have a PROBLEM with this picture, I guess I just don’t understand the point of it. I’ve never really gotten the whole “young girls wearing bikinis” thing because it seems to me that the whole reason the bikini was invented is for women to showcase their bodies and so it makes no sense that someone would put their child in one. I dunno.

      p.s. that baby looks freakishly long to me

      • I’m pretty sure thee reason women wear bikinis is so they can go to the beach, and maybe tan a little… Not so much to show off their bodies, because in that case than is every man who wears shorts and no top at the beach “showcasing” himself? My thoughts when I wear a bikini are not “I am going to show my ass and boobs to the world today!”… they’re probably more along the lines of “It’s hot as hell and I get to feel the sun on me all day without suffocating!”

        And the whole drama surrounding this picture is ridiculous! That baby is beyond adorable and people need to relax! It’s a baby in a bathing suit! I’m sure there was sexual connotation until these morons brought it up! STUPID!

    • think of all the girls with small boobs who wear bikinis…this makes no sense. its a swimsuit, come on! its a baby, and if you sexualize a bikini on a 4 month old thats amazing, look into yourself.

  • You guys are all faggots with nothing better to do than overanalyze and scold to hide from the misery of your own fucking lives. Get lives first.

  • We also have to keep in mind the context. Apparently this was a joke – Jessica Simpson was going to reveal her “post-baby bikini body,” and this is what she revealed. It was cute and funny. Not meant to be a call to sexual predators nor an example of what Maxwell wears all day long…sheesh.

  • Leave Jessica Simpson alone! Its her kid! Not like the munchkin is buck ass naked! You wanna freak out about people supposedly exploiting babies innocence someone should remind Mr. Knight about Anne Geddes then he’d really have something to freak out about! Who in their right mind Sees a picture like that & thinks oh yes they are sexually exploiting that baby!! Here come the sexual preditors!!!! ITS A F@*%#-$ BABY YOU PERV!!!!! Get a grip.

  • She looks so adorable I almost died of her cuteness. There is nothing wring with it. I put my baby in one its cuter on babies than women. The ones who are saying its sexualized are the ones who are wrong for thinking that in an infant.

  • It’s fine. I had a bikini when I was maybe 2 – it was the only way my mom could get me to NOT swim naked at the public pool. I agree, it’s probably a joke since Jess is getting such pressure for her bikini bod.

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