Kristin Cavallari Defends Posting Her Kids on Social Media

Kristin Cavallari is defending her decision to post images and videos of her kids on social media.

“They have been asking me for years to post them,” she explained in an interview with People published on Sunday, June 1, referring to her children Camden, 12, Jaxon, 11, and Saylor, 9, who she shares with ex-husband Jay Cutler.

“I guess it was maybe a year and a half ago that I finally posted Camden,” she continued. “He’s almost 13, Saylor is 9 — she’ll be 10 in the fall. It’s sort of the curse of being the second or the third kid. They just sort of naturally do what the oldest is doing. In my perfect world, would they all be 12 [before] deciding if they were posted? Sure. But also, it’s just not realistic.”

Cavallari spent most of her children’s lives hiding their faces from social media, but she said that now that they’ve grown up a little she enjoys sharing them with her followers online.

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“It is nice for me to be able to show that with people because my kids are the biggest part of my life. They always have been since I became a mom,” she explained. “And I could only let people in so much without showing my kids, so to be able to now share that world with everybody? People [can] see at the end of the day, I am just a normal mom. That is my life.”

Cavallari also emphasized that when she isn’t working, she’s doing things with and for her children.

“I’m going to basketball practice and games like every other parent. I’m at school. I was on a field trip last Friday. I am doing all the normal mom things,” she said. “And I think it’s probably good for people to see because I think people’s idea of me is very different than who I actually am.”

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Back in 2023, Cavallari spoke with Us Weekly about her children’s relationship with social media. “I just joined TikTok and my oldest is, like, checking my numbers constantly. Like, ‘How many followers do you have now?’ So I get all of that,” the Hills alum revealed to Us at the time. “I still think they’re a little young to be on that stuff, but the day is coming, of course. Selfishly, I’m excited for them to join all this stuff because then that means I can start posting them ‘cause, I mean, of course, I wanna share that whole part of my world with people.”

She added: “I just wanna respect their privacy until they’re old enough to make that decision. I think I wanna keep them off of social media for a few more years. I mean, my oldest is almost 11, but I think that’s really young to be on social media.”