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RandySF

(58,935 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:33 PM Jan 2021

Kellyanne Conway Posts Topless Photo of 16-Year Old Daughter

Kellyanne Conway, ex-counselor to disgraced former President Trump, allegedly posted a topless picture of her daughter Claudia, 16, on Twitter on Monday.

Reached for comment, a Twitter rep told Variety the company’s teams are investigating the incident. Kellyanne Conway could not be reached for comment.

According to screen captures posted by users on social media, Kellyanne Conway’s account (@KellyannePolls) shared an image of her topless teenage daughter using Twitter’s recently launched Fleets feature, which deletes posts after a 24-hour period (similar to Instagram and Snapchat’s stories). The Fleet was removed but not before Twitter users documented it.

On TikTok, Claudia Conway on Monday posted videos confirming that the picture was authentic; those have since been deleted from her TikTok account but Twitter users reposted copies of the videos. In the videos, a visibly upset Claudia Conway speculated that her mother may have accidentally posted the image. “I’m assuming my mom took a picture of it to use against me one day and then somebody hacked her or something,” she said. “I’m literally at a loss for words. If you see it, report it.”




https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/kellyanne-conway-accused-topless-photo-daughter-claudia-twitter-1234892220/

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Kellyanne Conway Posts Topless Photo of 16-Year Old Daughter (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2021 OP
George husband says not true. CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #1
No idea what is true, but surely some extended adult family member could take on Claudia hlthe2b Jan 2021 #3
Thank you, it's obviously not true janterry Jan 2021 #19
Are you a fan? Tink41 Jan 2021 #24
I'm a therapist who has worked with teens janterry Jan 2021 #28
So there is a semi-famous Tink41 Jan 2021 #35
oh, lol janterry Jan 2021 #37
I have a hard time wrapping my head around even an angry crazed mom doing this deliberately Bucky Jan 2021 #36
He can say whatever xmas74 Jan 2021 #30
Kellyanne Conway seems due for a complete mental health evaluation pandr32 Jan 2021 #2
Perhaps so... but Claudia clearly does FBaggins Jan 2021 #5
Yes. Claudia is 16 and has a psychopathic mother. Crunchy Frog Jan 2021 #14
I agree but I also wonder about janterry Jan 2021 #25
I see it completely differently Withywindle Jan 2021 #34
Did you see her ramble on Maher last week? mikeysnot Jan 2021 #13
I skip watching her pandr32 Jan 2021 #23
Certainly believable, but I think we might be wrong. Hoyt Jan 2021 #4
I believe that TicTok is from Aug when Claudia took a social media break. Her addressing the photo. steampunk Jan 2021 #9
I would not doubt KAnne would do this. If true, she needs to be charged. Disturbingly demented. Hoyt Jan 2021 #11
Her father posted it today FBaggins Jan 2021 #17
These people are a mess all of them. LizBeth Jan 2021 #20
Some day Claudia can raise a dysfunctional family of her very own. sop Jan 2021 #6
+1 LizBeth Jan 2021 #21
WTH? That family is messed up, and I feel sorry for the kids. liberalla Jan 2021 #7
I have no doubt that her mother posted it out of spite or something. MineralMan Jan 2021 #8
I can't imagine why someone would "look for the photo and spread it around." cwydro Jan 2021 #22
Really? Just the hint of such a thing sends people searching. MineralMan Jan 2021 #26
I guess you're right. cwydro Jan 2021 #29
It's a lot of weird, bent people out there. MineralMan Jan 2021 #32
Yes. Me too. MineralMan Jan 2021 #38
Something is amiss here. Even F-d up mothers don't do this. theneworiginal Jan 2021 #10
Dumb to do that to her kid. Anyway I hope it's not as bad as this old photo of Kellyanne in the nude mtnsnake Jan 2021 #12
. Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2021 #15
Hah and....ouch! machoneman Jan 2021 #27
+1 dalton99a Jan 2021 #33
Thank you for not showing the picture PurgedVoter Jan 2021 #16
What type of person would do something like that? Victor_c3 Jan 2021 #18
Call Q. This is clearly more of that pedophile ring they know so much about Iris Jan 2021 #31

hlthe2b

(102,298 posts)
3. No idea what is true, but surely some extended adult family member could take on Claudia
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:37 PM
Jan 2021

for the next 6-12 months (as guardian), giving the entire family a "cool off" period. Seems like it is sorely needed, no matter the facts.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
19. Thank you, it's obviously not true
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:25 PM
Jan 2021

something happened, that's true. but it's clear to me that her mother didn't do this - and that the daughter is triangulating via twitter.

Very sad.

Tink41

(537 posts)
35. So there is a semi-famous
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 04:55 PM
Jan 2021

singer, cult following, went on tour with Marilyn Manson named Jan Terri. Get down goblin is my fave

Bucky

(54,027 posts)
36. I have a hard time wrapping my head around even an angry crazed mom doing this deliberately
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 05:10 PM
Jan 2021

The daughter in her first video said Kellyanne took up her phone (as a teen's mom is likely to do at times of conflict) and was searching through it. So (also as Claudia wondered) Kellyanne accidently uploading the photo to the social app seems entirely occam-plausible. Her social media and her archive photos is the first places a concerned/controlling parent would look.

I think the girl covering for her mom seems more likely to be a hopeful sign that the family can get beyond these fights. But they've got LONG LONG months or years of work ahead of them. I hope it works out.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
25. I agree but I also wonder about
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:58 PM
Jan 2021

the overwhelming power of the internet. The daughter clearly is using her 'power' via twitter to 'get even' (I wrote somewhere else on the thread that she is triangulating via twitter) with her mother.

This is too much power for this young woman. She needs to be reigned in (her phone contract cancelled, internet at the house turned OFF). It won't make everything better - but somehow these parents need to get a bit of control (yes, I know she'll go down the street to the coffee shop. But I'd sure make her walk to get online!).

My daughter would never do this to me. But when she was behaving badly a few years ago, she claimed I'd never turn OFF the internet. I sure did. I took the modem and router out of the house (hid it in the wheel well of the car, lol). I can live without the internet if I have to - especially if it will help my daughter.

It worked.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
34. I see it completely differently
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 04:33 PM
Jan 2021

I think Claudia is being horribly abused by her mother, and the internet is the only way she has of keeping contact with the outside world. I think that if Kellyanne wasn't rich, white, and politically connected, CPS would have long ago taken Claudia away and put Mommy Dearest in jail. I think if Claudia didn't have that outlet of the internet she very well might be dead by now. (By her own hand OR her mother's)

Circulating topless photos of an underage girl? That's possession and distribution of child pornography. She should also be on the sex offender register for life now. Yes, teenagers take nude pics of themselves - ill-advised, but it's a reality. When an ADULT takes those pictures and posts them for REVENGE PORN? Especially the child's own MOTHER? Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.

I don't always take the parents' word for it, especially when there's so much horrific video documentation and well, KellyAnne Conway is who she is. There needs to be an intervention in this family, and KellyAnne needs to lose custody rights NOW.

pandr32

(11,591 posts)
23. I skip watching her
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:43 PM
Jan 2021

It makes me too wound up. I don't see the point.
Unfortunately, she has a husband and daughter. They can't just skip her.

 

steampunk

(80 posts)
9. I believe that TicTok is from Aug when Claudia took a social media break. Her addressing the photo.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:44 PM
Jan 2021

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
11. I would not doubt KAnne would do this. If true, she needs to be charged. Disturbingly demented.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:53 PM
Jan 2021

FBaggins

(26,748 posts)
17. Her father posted it today
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:21 PM
Jan 2021

She now has three versions of essentially the same thing posted today. The context is clearly not August.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
8. I have no doubt that her mother posted it out of spite or something.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:44 PM
Jan 2021

Now, there are untold numbers of people looking for the photo and spreading it around. I won't be one of them.

Teenagers do stupid things, like taking nude photos of themselves with their phones, all the time. They're teenagers and don't always use good judgment. For a parent to broadcast such a thing is a symptom of some serious sort of disorder or unharnessed anger at the teenaged child. I can't imagine someone doing that, but I can believe that it happens.

What a stupid thing to do! She's not going to go to jail, of course, but she has, no doubt, alienated her daughter in a disgusting way. She will either regret her action or she will not, depending on whether she is in her right mind or not.

What a sad thing!

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
22. I can't imagine why someone would "look for the photo and spread it around."
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:42 PM
Jan 2021

Surely that’s illegal, never mind sick as hell.

George says it didn’t happen. That whole family seems whacko.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
26. Really? Just the hint of such a thing sends people searching.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:59 PM
Jan 2021

Anything salacious or involving nude photos gets a lot of attention from some.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
29. I guess you're right.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 02:27 PM
Jan 2021

That makes me feel slightly ill.

Pretty much the way I felt for the past four years, lol.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
32. It's a lot of weird, bent people out there.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 03:18 PM
Jan 2021

Oddly enough, the tendency of teenagers to take pictures of themselves like that is nothing new. When I was in high school back in the early 60s, my girlfriend and her best friend took topless photos of themselves with a Polaroid camera. Then, they gave the photos to their respective boyfriends. Of course, that was not the first time we had seen that, but...

Anyhow, I hid the photo in a book about electronics in my bookshelf, knowing that nobody but me would ever look there. Later, when my girlfriend broke up with me in an amicable way, I cut the picture up into tiny little pieces and threw it away, and told her that I had done that.

Some things never change, and teenagers doing stupid things is no exception.

theneworiginal

(302 posts)
10. Something is amiss here. Even F-d up mothers don't do this.
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 12:47 PM
Jan 2021

The Conways have more drama than Hollywood, but this goes well beyond the normal toxic love/hate conflict that carries the day at the Conway residence.

Move over Osbournes.

mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
12. Dumb to do that to her kid. Anyway I hope it's not as bad as this old photo of Kellyanne in the nude
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:00 PM
Jan 2021

PurgedVoter

(2,218 posts)
16. Thank you for not showing the picture
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:18 PM
Jan 2021

We don't want to appear to be anything like them even if it is news. The facts are good enough.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
18. What type of person would do something like that?
Tue Jan 26, 2021, 01:22 PM
Jan 2021

Kellyanne’s daughter said:

“I’m assuming my mom took a picture of it to use against me one day and then somebody hacked her or something,”

What sort of parent would keep ammo of any sort to use against their children in the future? Then, on top of that, to keep a nude picture of their child as the ammo you’d use?

Maybe I’m just the odd one, but I couldn’t imagine having that sort of spite for my children.

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