Bebe (1) has no filter. Raphaëloise since 2016 – born in Nice, former photographer turned tattoo artist, mother of two children, in a relationship – she is simple but frank, funny, discreet and close to her loved ones.
Bebe is also an influencer. On Instagram, she is followed by more than 17,000 people. She shares everything: nature, makeup, figurines, various advice, vegetarian recipes, manga, her two cats…
And she controls everything. Her image, her first name (which she does not wish to divulge because her community does not know it), her age (“for my children, I am immortal”)… To date, among the 253 photos posted on his private account, not the shadow of a parental bedroom, nor even a piece of the facade of his home.
On his other two pages? Only tattoos. “I only show a tiny fraction of certain pieces.” Bebe fears for her privacy.
“A cell phone in primary school, that shocks me”
However, she is not afraid to regularly display the radiant little face of Catalina, 9 years old, as well as that of her son Noah, 13 years old.
The first being pampered, going to the cinema, having a snack in the Estérel… The second doing her best pose, dancing like crazy or calmly reading a manga.
When they appeared on their mom’s networks, both were under 5 years old.
Sitting next to her, her little girl looks away, shy. A fifth-grade student, she is fully aware and aware of her mother’s digital activity. She participates willingly.
Bebe always asks her permission to post such a photo or video. “I do the same for Noah, but he’s bigger and more restrictive. Catalina often agrees.”
The little one would like, moreover, to do the same work as her mother. “She is capable of it”, says the latter. But for now, impossible.
Catalina doesn’t have a cell phone.
“Me, it shocks me that a child has a phone in primary school. In Cat’s class, about fifteen have one! Noah had one when he entered middle school, in sixth grade. But it looks like the Nokia 3310. He can only make phone calls. I don’t want him to become a vegetable hung up on the number of likes.”
It ensures: “He doesn’t want to be on the internet anyway and doesn’t seem to be socially pressured by it.”
It reassures her.
Even if she regularly involves them in her activity, Bebe strives to protect her toddlers from the web. As soon as she has the opportunity, she reminds them of the risks and possible abuses.
“Not long ago I had a cyberbullying awareness coursesays the youngest. Mom also tells me that there are psychopaths and mean people on social media and that I’m too young to be there.”
But Catalina would like to show her drawings there, share her interests, her favorite books. Together, mother and daughter discussed it. Baby is looking for a compromise: “I agree, only if I’m in charge.”
When she does not want to be active on social networks for a while, she does not hesitate to warn those who follow her.
“It feels like I have a huge presence on Instagram, but my activity time is only two hours a day! Sometimes I get even more screwed up.”
Brands contact her from time to time for collaborations and partnerships with her “babes”. But she always selects them so that the ideas “stick with [leur] way of life”.
Remuneration issue? Not profitable enough to make a living from it and, sometimes, she doesn’t talk about it to the little ones.
“I don’t want Noah and Catalina to feel like they’re working. I prefer that they have fun, that they go out to play, in nature. With Florian, my partner, we try as much as possible to educate children away from all this digital world. It’s important to show the two facets of the middle of influence. We stuff their heads without wanting to, but it’s to make them aware of things “.
And to preserve their carelessness, whatever the cost.
1. This is the nickname used by the Raphaëloise on social networks.
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