Straighten the record.
Julia Fox had to explain her comments earlier this week, urging parents to buy cleaning tools for their children instead of toys.
“Oh my god, you guys are really acting like I said kids should work. That’s not what I said. I said kids should learn skills,” the mother of one, 32, said in a Tiktok video on Tuesday.
“Listen, there’s a reason they don’t teach kids crafts or other marketable skills specifically in public schools, like sewing, building things, or growing food, you know, like elementary s–t. Because they want to keep people stupid so they have to pay for it.”
The “Uncut Gems” star further called people’s reaction to her comments “crazy,” adding that raising her 19-month-old son Valentino has prompted her to take a more feminist approach to raising him. .
“Since I specifically have a son, I don’t want him to expect women to just go after him and do anything for him,” Kanye West’s former muse told her followers. “I’ve seen that my whole life, also in my own family and that stops with me.”
Her explanation comes just a day after the actress told her 1.5 million TikTok followers that “the idea of childhood was invented as a way to get parents to spend a lot of money on things that don’t really teach your child anything.”
Fox said her son, who she shares with ex-husband Peter Artemiev, “don’t care about his toys” and is “more interested” in what she does.
This led the actress to encourage her followers to “buy their child a mini mop and mini broom” to teach them life skills at an early age.
Fans were quick to make fun of the actress’ comments, but she took it to heart and later joked about the situation on her Instagram stories.
On Tuesday, she posted a series of snaps of her son playing in the park, captioning “now here’s an adorable photo of my son at the labor camp where he works.”