Instagram Live Summary
- They feel like they don’t want to or should have to address Eduardo’s situation but they want people to “understand”
- Ever since he was 2/3 he showed signs of wanting to dress up in typical girls clothing and play with typical girls toys - this continued as he got older
- Eduardo himself realised it wasn’t the norm and wanted to hide his “true self” from the outside world
- He would dress in said clothing at home but when they got the camera out to vlog or people came over, he would run upstairs to get changed because he himself, thought people would be mean
- In October when Emma Willis posted her son dressed in typical girls clothing with long hair, the world opened up for him and he realised he could be himself too. He didn’t want to be two different Eduardo’s, just the real, authentic Eduardo
- Since then he has taken the lead, decides what is shown, what TikTok’s he’s in and they started buying girls clothes for him
- He wears the dress to school but will wear the trousers when it’s cold
- Only a couple of children have made mean comments but they all apologised
- They don’t make money from the TikTok’s, they lose followers when posting about Eduardo so that doesn’t make sense
- If they post the other children they get lovely comments but if they post the same thing about Eduardo they get hate (in reference to the make-up pictures posted of Emilia and Eduardo)
- They don’t exploit him, they don’t believe they should hide Eduardo away. They make a reference to the fact that if a child has ginger hair and that people don’t like ginger hair, should that child be made to hide away and wear a hat? No they say. They want him to be free to express himself, like Jonathan couldn’t
- They get hated on if they show Eduardo or they hide him away, they only film 15 minutes of their day
- Emilia and Eduardo want to be in the vlogs more than they show, Jonathan edited out a clip in todays vlog where Eduardo took the camera and filmed himself
- The kids love their life, “what child wouldn’t love having Disney shut down for them to meet a princess”
- Stacey Dooley’s team all commented on how normal and happy their kids are and that their lives are not sensationalized
- If you don’t like what they do or film, don’t watch and watching only gives them more views and attention
That’s pretty much it. Just a lot of swearing from Jonathan and Anna cringing at him when he swears