Nikki Garcia is addressing an Instagram photograph the place she kisses her 5-year-old son, Matteo, on the lips.
“There have been fairly just a few explanation why I turned my feedback off on that put up, and it simply goes to indicate why I don’t put my son on social media,” Garcia, 42, shared on the Thursday, January 16, episode of SiriusXM’s The Nikki & Brie Present. “It wasn’t even that many feedback, however it was sufficient to bug me the place like, ‘I can’t imagine she kisses her son on the lips, he’s 5,’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, I can’t imagine you’re so bothered by it and aggravated.’ That’s loopy to me.”
Earlier this yr, Garcia traveled to Legoland California together with her son to expertise the theme park’s vacation sights.
When sharing reminiscences from the journey, Garcia included an harmless photograph of herself kissing Matteo on the lips in entrance of the doorway.
“Matteo’s most favourite place ever!” she wrote through Instagram on January 6. “He by no means desires to depart omgosh. He’s all the time so glad there. … He’s such somewhat grasp builder. This child always impresses me. 🧡🧱🥲.”
In response to the critics who questioned her affectionate photograph with Matteo, Garcia couldn’t imagine she had to offer an evidence.
“In that photograph that’s on the quilt photograph, that was his first time seeing Lego Santa, simply the Lego model,” she defined. “He obtained so excited, so the woman was simply taking pictures. Matteo grabbed me and gave me that huge kiss. It was the cutest factor since you may inform he was so excited and grateful he was truly going into Legoland and he noticed Lego Santa, so it was such an amazing second.”
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The detrimental feedback are one of many explanation why Garcia chooses to maintain her son — who she shares with ex-husband Artem Chigvintsev — away from social media.
“It’s bizarre when individuals put opinions in your children, and then you definately’re like, ‘See, this is the reason I don’t put up him as a result of I really like my child to demise and do you suppose I need to learn these things about him?’” she defined. “However the kissing factor was so annoying to me and simply bothersome as a result of I’m like, initially, I really like my son a lot, and I really feel dangerous in case your child desires to kiss you on the lips and also you inform him no. I feel that’s unhappy as a result of I don’t know what that will do to them mentally.”
Nikki had the assist of her sister, Brie Garcia, who stated she nonetheless kisses her cousins, aunt and oldsters on the lips.
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“We’re all raised in a different way,” Brie, 42, stated. “Perhaps [because] we’re Mexican Italian and we obtained a few different issues in there. … I feel it’s bizarre to observe individuals and be hating.”
Through the episode, Nikki had one ultimate request to her followers who really feel the necessity to touch upon her parenting selections.
“Cease telling me to get my son a haircut,” she proclaimed. “He loves his lengthy hair. His lengthy hair is gorgeous.”
