The BET Awards hit the airwaves tonight and brought out not only today's musical bests, but also the big old jerkface bullies. Just when you thought people couldn't be any meaner, Twitter lit up with TONS of mean-spirited talk about an 11-year-old girl. That child happened to be Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's daughter and aspiring singer, Willow Smith.
Let's just say Willow's young age didn't get in the way of the level of cruelty that led the viewer commentary tonight. Unbelievable!
Twitter didn't leave a single aspect of Willow's appearance untouched -- ripping on her new super-short hair, her ears, and her outfit, calling out her thin frame and her gender-neutral appearance, and even questioning her sexuality. Um, she's 11 folks. Some jerks even went as far as to say she looks like a boy, like Will Smith's son, cancer stricken, or even like a "monkey." WTF? Pick on someone your own size @-holes!!!
There's no denying that celebrities get picked apart all the time. It's sort of par for the course; however, I think we have to draw the line when we're talking about a growing, changing, coming-into-her-own child. Willow is a creative and beautiful young girl who is always playing with style and -- like all 11-year-old girls -- figuring out who she is and how to express herself. Good for her, I say! And good for her parents for letting her be the girl she wants to be.
Will and Jada no doubt have their hands full, having two kids who are dabbling in music, film, and more. Growing up is hard to do, with or without celeb status, and now Willow's parents are faced with having to shield their daughter from the ugliness of adolescence and peers, atop the ugliness of the whole entire world -- adults included. That's a lot.
Willow also debuted her new video for her song "I Am Me" tonight, and people jumped all over that too, saying she's too young to know anything about which she sings. But maybe what people really needed to do was shut the eff up and listen to her lyrics and learn.
Do you think society needs to give child celebrities a break or do these kids just need to grow a thick skin and deal with the low blows?
Image via Getty/Frederick M. Brown
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Hell, half my head is shaved, and I prefer to wear cutoff shorts and boys' t-shirts. But I'm pretty, and can be sexy when I feel like it, because I am comfortable being ME.
People should get off their 16th century high horses and stop picking on a little girl. It's her life, for her and her parents to decide what's best.
Besides, these people could buy the lives of all you haters 50 times over, like they should be concerned by what some loser on the internet says? Pft.
She looks like her father in the picture- like a little mini-fresh prince. No denying paternity in this one. lol
I think she looks like her dad. Nothing wrong with that.
I like willow and her parents. She sure looks like her dad with short hair WOW! I like this song - its making a statement that she's not going to let anyone get in her way and that's exactly how I feel. Go ahead girl...do your thing!