Willow Smith: No Longer Shocking Us With Hair-do's Alone

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Is this picture the most shocking bit of  news in the ongoing saga that is the life of the Smith's?  Hardly.  Without context it might not even be what the camera tries to suggest.  

The live's of any celebrity represent a series of images captured in picture or in sound.  Some of these images are captured by the voracity of human envy, but most of them are not.

These days, the engines of curiosity  driven through the lens of a paparazzi are only an accomplice to the accomplished who provide the needed fuel with coordinated accidental nip slips.  Maybe these foibles are happenstance, but any industry that says all publicity is good publicity is not to be trusted.

Enter (on left) the aforementioned photo of Willow Smith (13) and Moises Arias (20), both famous child actors, even if Arias is not exactly a kid anymore.  The film related reason's that these two actors might have found themselves taking this picture are too numerous to imagine.  The promotional related reason's that this photo might have been leaked to create a buzz are even more numerous. Two years earlier, Willow's actress mom (Jada Pinkett Smith) was tweeting out pictures declaring the innocence of her then 11 year old daughter who people accused of growing up too quickly. Today she is admonishing critics as pseudo-pedophiles for suggesting that the suggestive photo is anything more than innocent

If this is a sexual moment, we are hardly being shown the most intimate view of it despite the obvious presence of a capable photographer. (Does anyone know or care who took the picture?)  In fact, the potential captions one could add to this picture are as numerous as the conceptions and misconceptions the picture has created.

Within a family of actors, photo's that create a buzz are to be expected.  In a world full of envy and  ill will, Willow could have created this buzz with just an outlandish haircut.

Or have the hair cut's stopped working?