Ayesha Curry regrets overexposing her daughter Riley to social media when she was youthful

• Ayesha Curry regrets bringing her eldest daughter into the general public eye a lot.
• Riley, now 10, was a topic of media consideration as a really younger youngster, showing at her dad’s video games.
• In Insider’s Could 2023 cowl story, Curry stated none of her children have social-media accounts or cell telephones now.

Ayesha Curry stated that she regrets overexposing her eldest daughter, Riley, to the general public and social media as a youthful youngster — and now, she largely retains her children out of the highlight. 

Curry is Insider’s Could 2023 cowl star, profiled by Muna Mire and photographed by Lia Clay Miller. She spoke with Insider about elevating her youngsters within the burgeoning world of social media as a celeb father or mother, and stated that she now needs she would have carried out issues otherwise. 

“When the social media factor began, no one knew what that was going to turn into,” Curry informed Mire. “If we had recognized again within the day simply how chaotic it will make life, I do not suppose we’d’ve carried out it. However we had been simply genuinely residing our lives again then. And we thought, ‘That is our child. We’re bringing our child alongside.’”

Curry and her husband, NBA star Stephen Curry, share three youngsters: Riley, 10, Ryan, 7, and Canon, 4. Curry introduced Riley alongside together with her to a few of her husband’s video games earlier in his profession with the Golden State Warriors — and folks took discover. Riley, at age 2, shocked her father by becoming a member of him for a post-game press convention in 2015, and celebrated together with her household at a postgame celebration in 2016.

Now, Curry informed Insider that she’s extra deliberate about conserving her children offline. She stated none of them have social-media accounts or cell telephones as a way to forestall them from seeing details about their mother and father or household on-line. Nonetheless, she tries to allow them to have new experiences whereas additionally defending them.

“The place’s the center floor, the place we’re strict, however we’re additionally permitting our youngsters to expertise life?” Curry stated, of discussions she has together with her husband. “We’re attempting to determine what that steadiness is. Simply type of study as you go, proper?” 

To learn Insider’s Could digital cowl story, starring Ayesha Curry, written by Muna Mire, click on right here.