Charlotte, with her pint-sized features, porcelain-white skin, and flowing blonde hair, is pretty much a super-star here in China.
Seriously, I now understand what it’s like to be a celebrity, or at least the mother of one.
Wherever we go, strangers gawk, point, giggle, smile, and wave like crazy. Some of them get a little too ambitious and try to touch Charlotte, and are promptly slapped away by her overprotective security detail mama-bear.
Most of the time though, they just want to take her photo. Or have their photo taken with her.
To prove I’m not exaggerating, we undertook a little experiment during a recent two-day trip to Shanghai: we photographed all of Charlotte’s adoring fans as they photographed her, dragged their kids into photos with her, or took their own photos with her. Here lies the results:
Bribing Charlotte with a weird flashy ball of plastic
Best friends? Maybe not…
Charlotte was trying really hard not to hit this guy
Distracted by bubbles!
Charlotte worried about how I’m about to rip this woman’s greasy hands off of my child
A panda-bear sighting at the park? Nope, just Charlotte sitting down long enough for a crowd to gather
TOOO funny!! But she is gorgeous …
My sister and I were red-headed twins growing up in Japan in the 1980s. I have no idea how many photos we are in with Japanese strangers making the “peace” sign. Too funny, your post brought back some good memories.
Hilarious. Some of the faces on Charlotte are priceless. Hey, how did you go with J taking Charlotte on a trip for about a million weeks?
She’s getting so tall!!!