Amal Clooney has revealed the extreme lengths she and her husband, George Clooney, go to to maintain their family’s privacy.
The international human rights lawyer told Glamour magazine about how she safeguards her family’s personal moments, which involves confiscating people’s phones.
“Creating private moments and spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. But that’s also why we entertain a lot at home,” Amal said in the interview, published on Thursday.
“I now have a phone basket that I use to take everyone’s phones away! It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange,” she explained.
“And I would say becoming a parent means you’re more troubled by some of the intrusions. So we do the best we can to minimize any impact on our children,” Amal said of her 8-year-old twins, named Alexander and Ella. “We don’t put our children out there, we’ve never put their photo out there or anything like that.”
George Clooney has also cited concerns over the safety and privacy of his children, partially because of his celebrity status, but mostly because of his wife Amal’s prominent legal work targeting extremist groups such as Hamas and ISIS.
“I have a goal of trying to protect, I don’t want pictures of my kids,” he said in an interview with GQ, published last year.
“We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there,” the actor explained. “So we have to work hard at trying to stay private, and it’s tricky, as you can imagine.”
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