Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are calling on fans everywhere to boycott magazines that pay money for photos of celebrities' children.
"Children shouldn't be stalked," Shepard tweeted Jan. 27 along with hashtags calling for a boycott of US Weekly, Star, People and In Touch magazines.
Children shouldn't be stalked. #boycottusweekly #boycottstar #boycottpeople #boycottintouch #boycottboycottboycott
— dax shepard (@daxshepard1) January 27, 2014
"The 'look at the celebs kid at the park!' teaches us a disengaged voyeurism. Think about how being followed by photos all day effects THE KID," Bell tweeted later that day.
Bell said on Twitter she would no longer be doing interviews with outlets that pay photographers to take pictures of her daughter, born last March.
"I care more about my integrity and my values than my career," she said.
Then, turning the focus back onto her fan base, the Frozen star said: "Now think about how you play the MOST NECESSARY role in the sad chain of events - the consumer. Things won't change til the consumer does."
The couple is not the first to take a stand on the subject. Under a new bill passed in California in September 2013, individuals who take photos or video of a child without parental consent and in an aggressive manner could face up to a year in jail and a fine of $10,000.
The bill, put into effect this month, was passed at the urging of stars such as Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry.
"On behalf of my children, it is my hope that this is the beginning of the end for those overly aggressive paparazzi whose outrageous conduct has caused so much trauma and emotional distress," Berry said in a statement released to ABC in September.
In her testimony, Garner spoke of the hidden dangers of paparazzi.
"There are violent, mentally-ill stalkers who can now get close to my kids by simply following mobs of photographers and blending in," she said. "Like the very man who threatened to cut the babies out of my belly. Who was arrested waiting behind our daughter's preschool, standing among the throng of paparazzi. That man is still in prison, but I have no doubt there are others like him still out there."
