Cathy Hummels
No more Ludwig pics on social media in the future
How “presentable” Cathy Hummels, she most recently demonstrated with her stunning outfit at the German Television Awards ceremony at the MMC Studios at the end of September.
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Cathy Hummels will no longer show her son Ludwig on social media in the future. For good reason, as she announced on Saturday.
Cathy Hummels (35) will no longer show her son Ludwig (5) on Instagram. Why she decided against it she explains in a “letter” on Saturday to her followers, which she published on Instagram along with a breastfeeding photo from her postpartum bed.
“Why did we decide to stop showing Ludwig’s face on Instagram? The main reason is actually that I realized how difficult and stressful social media can be,” she writes. The presenter, entrepreneur and influencer further explains: “I’m an adult and I notice how this feeling of regularly performing influences me and often leads me to give in to the urge to share beautiful moments.”
Ludwig should decide for himself in the future
She has always been extroverted and wants to take other people along and motivate them – that is her personality, says Cathy Hummels about herself. But “just because I like to present doesn’t mean that my son has the same hobby,” she now knows.
The loving post also makes it clear that the decision to no longer show “his beautiful face with that enchanting and contagious smile, those big, nut-brown bright eyes and that beautiful button nose” is difficult for her. And yet: “From now on he will no longer be shown on Instagram until he can consciously decide what he wants to reveal about himself and whether he even wants it,” says Hummels.
She ends her post with a general warning to all parents: “Children don’t belong on social media and we as parents have responsibility for them. We have to protect our children and not put them on display in front of ‘strangers’ people. Because one thing is clear – How would we feel if intimate moments from our childhood could be found online today?”
Ludwig comes from the marriage of Cathy and Mats Hummels (34). After many years of relationship, the two tied the knot in 2015 and divorced in 2022. In the first four years of his life she had not shown Ludwig At the beginning of July 2022 the time had come in a post. “I’m showing Ludwig in this photo because he was here at an official appointment or I was with him,” she explained her move at the time.