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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 companys teams are investigating the incident. Kellyanne Conway could not be reached for comment.
According to screen captures posted by users on social media, Kellyanne Conways account (@KellyannePolls) shared an image of her topless teenage daughter using Twitters recently launched Fleets feature, which deletes posts after a 24-hour period (similar to Instagram and Snapchats 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. Im assuming my mom took a picture of it to use against me one day and then somebody hacked her or something, she said. Im 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/
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)hlthe2b
(102,298 posts)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)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)Or are you Jan Terri?
janterry
(4,429 posts)n/t
Tink41
(537 posts)singer, cult following, went on tour with Marilyn Manson named Jan Terri. Get down goblin is my fave
I had no idea what you were referencing.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)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.
xmas74
(29,674 posts)But he knows it happened. It's on video.
pandr32
(11,591 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Damn right she needs help.
janterry
(4,429 posts)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)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.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)Oh my god...
pandr32
(11,591 posts)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.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)steampunk
(80 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)She now has three versions of essentially the same thing posted today. The context is clearly not August.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)sop
(10,205 posts)liberalla
(9,249 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)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)Surely thats illegal, never mind sick as hell.
George says it didnt happen. That whole family seems whacko.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Anything salacious or involving nude photos gets a lot of attention from some.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)That makes me feel slightly ill.
Pretty much the way I felt for the past four years, lol.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)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.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)theneworiginal
(302 posts)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)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)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)Kellyannes daughter said:
Im 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 youd use?
Maybe Im just the odd one, but I couldnt imagine having that sort of spite for my children.