Though it can sometimes seem like celebrities live in a completely different world with its own set of rules, it’s important to remember that they’re still people and are just as entitled to their privacy and personal space as the rest of us. Hilary Duff attempted to get this point across over the weekend, when one paparazzo allegedly had been following her around for hours, making her feel preyed upon and “uncomfortable.” On Saturday she shared a video on Instagram in which she confronted the alleged photographer in his car and explained the situation in her caption.
“This guy has been at my [son’s] soccer game this mornin,g then followed me to my [sister’s] house and was basically parked in her [driveway] to get photos. Followed me to run errands,” Duff wrote. “This is not OK. I am [nine] months pregnant. When people say, ‘That’s what you get for signing up to be a celebrity,’ it honestly makes me sick. This is every day of every month, and it’s simply not OK. If a non ‘celeb’ (I’m sorry to use that word) was dealing with this, the law would be involved.”
In the accompanying video, the Younger star appears to have pulled up alongside the accused pap’s car in a parking lot to ask him to stop following her. “I’m nine months pregnant and I have the flu, and I’ve asked you once to leave me alone. Can you please stop taking my picture? You’re, like, hunting me down,” she tells him. He responds by saying he hasn’t gotten any photos of her yet. “It doesn’t matter. I’m just asking you to please leave me alone for the day,” Duff replies. “You’re, like, hunting me down.”
Amid his continued protests, she adds, “I feel very uncomfortable. Please, please leave a pregnant woman alone.” Missing every bit of the point, the photog retorts that he’s “lost [his] whole morning” following her around. “It’s not my fault!” she replies, and correctly so. “Please leave me alone. It’s the weekend, sir, please.”
Duff is far from the first celebrity to call out the paps. Kylie Jenner and Sarah Hyland both recently did so after feeling like their privacy had been invaded by photographers, and when photos surfaced of Bella Hadid hanging out with a friend inside of her own apartment last year, she tweeted, “Whoever thinks it’s OK to photograph into someone’s home and private space is straight-up sick, sad, and f*cked up.”
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