I know it’s actually horrible for Julia because this is worsening family feuds, but I’m glad she has done it. She’s the only person who can really get under Nadia’s skin, the only person that Nadia appears to be afraid of. Shame on Lisa, I genuinely expected better from her, and Julia made the right call in letting her make a fool of herself. Lisa works in tv and to an extent has made herself a public figure, she could cause herself real problems at work by supporting Nadia on this, it’s also a problem for Kaye as well due to them both putting their name on that online safety book.
All these friends of Nadia’s would know about this issue with Julia if Nadia had not been intentionally telling them about it, and quite likely asking them to reply. Yet…Nadia herself is keeping completely quiet, this is the behaviour of her daughters, yet she won’t speak up and defend her parenting decisions. Those girls are not officially in the public eye, Nadia caused that on YouTube, so the additional attention they have got from weirdos is her fault, plus nobody is actually aiming this at Kiki that I am aware of, the issue is that Nadia and Mark have not set a single boundary and so do not care for her safety or made age appropriate rules to ensure she is not emulating Maddie’s behaviour which is debatable whether it’s appropriate for any adult, but it’s defiantly not appropriate for a child.
If Nadia and Mark set boundaries and cared for Kiki’s online safety, then Julia would not heave felt the need to raise concerns, and if Kiki’s SM was age appropriate content and Julia was overreacting then Julia would not have hundreds of people liking and supporting her post on this matter.
Maybe Roberta and Nadim feel a bit better now that Julia’s effort have got the profiles made private, that gives some damage limitation to what these degrading profiles are doing to their granddaughter’s futures.
Nadia and Mark’s reaction is very telling, plus we have Dina using blocking strangers as a more discreet show of loyalty.
Nadia…she is your sister, and if you think that your daughter’s SM is acceptable, which is the only really way that your opinion can differ from Julia’s, then just come straight out and make a post stating that fact, don’t get people who are complete strangers to your sister to respond on your behalf. All this nonsense from Lisa about sending a text or writing a letter…has Julia even got their phone numbers, would a letter be removed before being given to the girls…she saw an immediate problem and reacted to it, she didn’t want to delay or have the message lost. That is what family do, they intervene when they see danger. If you had an open line of communication with your sister and the ability to have an adult conversation then maybe this wouldn’t have needed to play out publicly.
All ‘be kind’ stuff you preach is totally lost when you do something such as see a post you don’t like and then get people who the person doesn’t even know to respond trying to be nasty on your behalf. Especially when it’s several of them against one person, that’s called being a ring leader of a group of bullies. Have you no consideration at all about how this may upset your sister, is everything just focused on yourself? Maybe she is home alone at the times these messages are coming through from your friends on the attack, it may cause her more upset than you imagine.
Julia keep standing up for yourself and what you believe in, exactly as you have been in a dignified manner. The fact that you are siblings with a rare surname etc has meant that when one person behaves badly it affects the reputation of the other. You have been by family ties associated with so much bad behaviour, lies, immaturity, taking money from vulnerable subs, terrible parenting, exhibitionistic behaviour, shoving a camera in your elderly parent’s faces and profiting from it, showing slovenly lifestyles, immense wastefulness and also disregard for public health laws, the list goes on and on in terms of the reputational damage by association. You have probably had the constant concern of what the hell are they going to do next to embarrass you and your parents.
I applaud you for keeping silent and then only getting involved when it became clear they want their daughters to follow them into this degrading behaviour and possibly even worse. But now I don’t think you need to be so silent, no need to speak up about everything, but if there are things that are negatively affecting you as a result by association you defiantly have the right to point that out in factual and not argumentative commentary.
As Jennifer Saunders I think once said, Julia has a very good career playing daughters, so I think she has got that role down to a tee, she won’t have done this if it was going to harm her parents, she will have done this knowing that they want the SM reigned in even if they aren’t going to voice it themselves due to fear of the arguments that would follow.
By going radio silence while at the same time getting multiple friends to do her dirty work for her, Nadia has shown herself to both be a coward and a bully. If you want to react to what Julia has said, then just do it yourself and stop playing games. Julia clearly isn’t playing games, she set out to improve online safety and to an extent achieved it because the profiles went private, then by making her post public she has probably extended the amount of time those profiles will remain private. She cares about her nieces safety, not about your anger, so she achieved something but you haven’t.
I also want to know why is Nadia not addressing the disconnect between writing a book on online child safety and then not practicing any of those measures. The fact that she has written a book on the subject makes this a public issue not a private one, this is not about the girls themselves it is about her parenting choices and her role as a public figure giving out advice in a publication with her photo on the cover which totally conflicts with her actions. How can Nadia expect anyone to take her other work seriously, such as her cookbooks or homeschool book…now that we know that she is apparently very happy to put her photo on the cover and profit from giving advice to others that she clearly doesn’t believe in? This is the crux of the issue that the execs at LW should be considering, is the woman suitable to sit on a panel show representing average woman when she has no substance and will put her face to anything for payment whether she believes in it or not.