Fans defend Jamie Lee Curtis after she addresses 'disturbing' controversial photo

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By Phoebe Egoroff

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Jamie Lee Curtis just can't seem to catch a break.

After speaking out about the criticism of Hollywood's nepotism babies, she's now had to respond after she was accused of posting "extremely disturbing" images to her social media account.

According to Yahoo! Life, the Halloween actress recently shared an image of her home office space to show off her "beautiful Pollack chairs."

In the post, she wrote: "Ok. This is a weird post. But I have Covid, so f**k it. During one of the SAG nomination panels for [Everything Everywhere All At Once], I told the story of how I ended up with my office furnished with my beautiful Pollack chairs from that movie."

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However, some social media users were quick to criticize the post - due to the photograph that could be seen in the background hanging on the star's wall.

One Twitter user wrote: "Why does Jamie Lee Curtis have a painting of a naked child stuffed in a box hanging on her wall? She deleted this whole thing shortly after posting it."

Illinois politician Jack Lombardi II then added: "Hollyweird strikes again!"

Curtis subsequently removed the image and has since posted a statement on Instagram and Twitter, writing: "Last week I posted a picture of some chairs that included a photograph on the wall by an artist that was gifted to me 20 years ago. I understand that it has disturbed some people.

"I am a truth teller so here's the truth. It's a picture of a child, taken by her mother, of her playing in the backyard in a tub of water. Nothing more, nothing less."

Fortiunately, many fans of the actress understood, and rushed to defend her.

"I saw the post and only noticed the chairs. Please don't give in to these people. If it brings you joy share it," one person wrote.

"Aaaah, let me guess, people where sexualising the [image] with their own gaze and then blaming you for how they looked at it? [sic]" another user wrote.

A third typed: "Post a picture of some chairs (I remember the pic, they are stunning) and you can rely on people to scour everything in the pic apart from the chairs. That’s social media. Those people disturb me, can you get them removed too?"

However, others continued to criticize, including one commenter who wrote: "If it's a child of course you have to take it seriously no matter what the circumstances are. So as a mom that's disturbing to me. I don't care what people say."

The 64-year-old took to Instagram in December last year following the release of a viral New York Magazine article that took a deep dive into celebrities in Hollywood who they claimed leveraged being the children of famous parents - including Dakota Johnson, Hailey Bieber, and Maude Apatow.

"The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt. For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don't pretend there aren't any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own," she had written.

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