Billie Lourd has spent her entire life adjacent to a camera.
Her dad is a lawyer who somehow avoided the spotlight entirely.
So when she announced she was raising her two children without showing their faces online, the internet did what the internet does and demanded an explanation.
And it was less a dramatic reveal and more a tired mom saying "please stop asking." In a recent interview, Lourd explained that she and her husband Austen Rydell made a deliberate choice to keep their kids anonymous.
No "meet baby [insert celestial name here]" post.
Just two small humans existing entirely offline while their mother gets recognized as Lieutenant Connix in the grocery store.
Lourd lost her mother, Carrie Fisher, in 2016, and her grandmother one day later.
She knows better than almost anyone what it feels like to have your family's grief turned into public content.
Strangers wrote think pieces about her mother's death before she'd finished processing it herself.
Half the commenters praised her for breaking the nepo-baby-to-oversharing pipeline.
The other half asked why she posts about her kids at all if she's so private.
To which the only reasonable response is: she's a celebrity, not a monk.
There's a difference between sharing a funny anecdote and handing the internet a searchable face.
The internet has a long, ugly history with celebrity children.
Some get their baby photos memed before they can walk.
Lourd clearly looked at that track record and decided her kids could form their own digital footprint when they're old enough to regret it personally.
Is this a groundbreaking parenting philosophy?
Plenty of normal people don't post their kids either.
But when you're the daughter of a woman who was essentially America's space princess, every mundane decision becomes a headline.
Lourd also pointed out that her kids will one day be able to choose what they share.
She's giving them the one thing celebrity offspring rarely get: a blank slate.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are still posting our toddlers' meltdowns for engagement.
Some of us just don't have a Star Wars inheritance to protect.
Billie Lourd is doing what every parent claims they want to do and almost none actually do: putting the kid's future ahead of the algorithm's present.
Final Thoughts
If that makes her the villain of your feed, maybe log off and call your mother.