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What do Tom Burgess and Tahlia Giumelli have in common with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban? They donโ€™t show their kidโ€™s faces on social media.

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The NRL star and his partner are among a whole host of Aussie celebs who have opted out of posting photos of their children online, or at least keep their kidsโ€™ faces hidden.

From Hollywood stars, to iconic Aussie models and sporting legends weโ€™ve grown to love on and off the field, plenty of famous parents have already made a similar choice.

Tahlia and Tom announced theyโ€™ll no longer be sharing photos of their children online. (Credit: Instagram)

Some simply hide their childrenโ€™s faces in social media posts, while others share only glimpses of their kidsโ€™ hands or feet, and others refuse to post any snaps that their kids appear in at all.

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How parents choose to handle social media is a very personal choice, and one famous mums and dads clearly donโ€™t take lightly.

Weโ€™ve looked at some of the Australian celebrities who choose not to post their children online and why they like to keep family life private.

Elyse Knowles

Though the model and former Block star has been known to share her son Sunnyโ€™s face on Instagram, she has some clear โ€œboundariesโ€ about photos of her little boy, whom she shares with fiancรฉ Josh Barker. She included Sunny in a series of campaign photos for her new Fisher Price x Elyse Knowles Collection, but chose to keep her bubโ€™s face hidden.

โ€œHe is a part of it [but] I didnโ€™t include him fully,โ€ she told the Daily Telegraph. โ€œWe put some boundaries around using Sunnyโ€™s face and things like that. It is not about him but obviously he is my son so he is a part of it.โ€

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Kat Stewart

The Offspring and Five Bedrooms star is a mum-of-two, but chooses not to show her kidsโ€™ faces online, only ever posting snaps of them from behind. In the past, Kat confessed sheโ€™s not big on social media in general.

โ€œI am quite clueless,โ€ she told the Daily Telegraph in 2017. โ€œIt is like ponces that donโ€™t have a mobile phone. My kids will be on it one day. I donโ€™t know what people are talking about half the time.โ€

Tahlia Giumelli and Tom Burgess

Tom and Tahlia reignited the conversation around children and social media on Tuesday when they announced theyโ€™d no longer be showing their childrenโ€™s faces on social media. The model mum shared this snap with an emotional caption about their choice.

โ€œOne thing Tom and I discussed recently is that going forward we have made the decision to avoid sharing our childrenโ€™s faces on social media,โ€ she wrote.

โ€œI know this is a big change and that doesnโ€™t mean we wonโ€™t be showing what we do as a family but as our babies grow and turn into little girls we want to try and protect them as much as possible. They didnโ€™t ask for any of this and and at the end of the day I have to trust my mum instincts and know Iโ€™m making the best decision for them right now.โ€

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

Hollywood legend Nicole Kidman and her country musician husband Keith Urban have only ever shown rare, one-off photos of their two daughters Sunday and Faith.

โ€œThey donโ€™t have a phone and I donโ€™t allow them to have an Instagram. I try to keep some sort of boundaries,โ€ Nicole told Vanity Fair in 2019.

Sam and Lara Worthington

This Aussie actor and model duo have chosen to keep their kids off social media for years now. The pair share three sons, Rocket, Racer and River, and Lara has only ever shown brief glimpses of them online, and never includes their faces.

โ€œAt this stage of my life, with my sons as the total priority, Iโ€™m focused on wellbeing, motherhood and taking care of my family,โ€ she once told Body + Soul.

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Buddy and Jesinta Franklin

AFL legend Buddy Franklin and his wife Jesinta are fiercely private with their two young children, Tullulah and Rocky. They never show their childrenโ€™s faces on their Instagram pages, mum Jesinta saying she wants to wait until her kids are old enough to decide if they want to appear online.

โ€œWe both try to limit their presence on social media, protecting their privacy is important to Jes and I. But each to their own, we donโ€™t judge,โ€ Buddy told Now To Love.

Jesinta recently told Marie Claire: โ€œIt is a bit about privacy but for us it is not about hiding themโ€ฆ We share photos with our family and friends all of the time. It is just about being respectful to their privacy and if they get to 13 or 14 and donโ€™t care if we show their faces, great.โ€

Miranda Kerr

This Aussie model has chosen to keep her children from both of her marriages off social media entirely, and their fathers are on board with her choice. Miranda shares sons Myles and Hart with husband Evan Spiegel, and son Flynn with ex Orlando Bloom.

She hasnโ€™t spoken much about the decision to keep her kids off Instagram, but told the Today show that she and Spiegel are โ€œso strict in our home about screen time and computer timeโ€ when it comes to their kids.

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky

The Aussie acting heavyweight and his wife may share snaps of their kids online pretty regularly, but theyโ€™re always careful to keep their childrenโ€™s faces obscured. Marvel star Chris once said that heโ€™s wary of his kids being exploited online.

โ€œThe exploitation is something Iโ€™m very wary of. Weโ€™ve been offered things like, โ€˜advertise such-and-such and have dinner with your family,โ€ he told GQ magazine in 2018. โ€œThereโ€™s no way.โ€

Dannii Minogue

Aussie songstress Dannii and her former partner Kris Smith donโ€™t post any photos on social media of their son Ethan, whom they co-parent. Itโ€™s understood they made the choice at Danniiโ€™s request, as she wants her son to be able to live a normal life.

While Kris does share pictures of his two daughters with current partner Sarah Boulazeris online, heโ€™s kept photos of his son with Dannii private.

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Daniel MacPherson and Zoe Ventoura

The actors may have split, but theyโ€™ve remained united in their choice to keep son Austinโ€™s face off the internet. Both stars share photos of their son on Instagram, but make sure his face is never visible, often posting snaps that only show the back of his head.

โ€œIn terms of my privacy, itโ€™s something I have been very protective about from the start. Itโ€™s just always felt like it needs to be protected as much as possible to keep a sense of normalcy,โ€ Zoe told Who.


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