"Please keep your hatred to yourselves": Pink hits back at 'parenting police' in angry online post
Pink has defended her two children from backlash after she shared a photo of the pair at a Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
She’s known to speak out against those who offer her parenting advice, and this time was no different. The singer was in Germany to perform as part of her Beautiful Trauma world tour, and while there, she posted a number of photos featuring her two kids Willow Sage, 8, and Jameson Moon, 2.
One of the images showed the two running through the city’s memorial, with many fans taking offence saying the act is offensive to those who died.
“Berlin, I love you,” Pink wrote. “And for all of the comments; these two children are in actuality Jewish, as am I and the entirety of my mother’s family. The very person who constructed this believed in children being children, and to me this is a celebration of life after death. Please keep your hatred and judgement to yourselves.”
The mother-of-two referenced Peter Eisenman, the man behind the Berlin memorial. Speaking to BBC in 2017, the architect said that he does not find children playing at the memorial to be disrespectful.
“People have been jumping around on those pillars forever. They’ve been sunbathing, they’ve been having lunch there and I think that’s fine,” he said. “It’s like a Catholic Church, it’s a meeting place, children run around, they sell trinkets. A memorial is an everyday occurrence, it is not sacred ground.”
But despite his views, Eisenman made sure to mark a clear line of difference between the memorial he designed and burial sites such as Auschwitz, which he said are “a different environment.”
After ongoing hate comments against her parenting style, Pink made the decision to limit the amount of posts about her kids.
“People went as far as saying, ‘Someone should call Child Services,’ because he didn’t have a diaper on, and ‘How dare I?’ – just some of the nastiest things,” she revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“I cried so hard after that because I like to share my family … I’m prouder of my kids than anything I’ve ever done and I just won’t share them anymore. I won’t do it.”