“You have sexualized my son.” With these forceful words, content creator Alexandra Gallardo, known in TikTok as An unexpected friend, He raised his voice this Monday against the sexualization that her nine-month-old baby has suffered, following the viralization of one of her latest publications on the platform.
According to him, a few days ago he shared a video in which his son could be seen “swinging on all fours in the crib like a nine-month-old baby that he is.” In just a few hours, this publication, which she later deleted herself, reached “more than 30 million views”, receiving numerous comments in the process.
Among those who praise the tiktoker for their visibility work towards the Williams syndrome with whom her son lives, the content creator has firmly denounced those messages that sexualize her little one. “I never believed that a baby doing a baby movement was going to generate such extremely pedophile comments”, has pointed out.
In this sense, the tiktokerwho feels “angry, disappointed and even scared of the type of people there are in the world”, he recalled that the only purpose behind his videos is “to show the child in specific moments of his life for people who need it,” either to learn more about her child’s syndrome or to “identify” with her and her partner. “His other mom and me. Because yes: we are two mothers,” explained the influencerhighlighting that “life exists like this too.”
Although at first he even considered deleting his TikTok account, he finally chose to deactivate the comments on that video, which he described as “disgusting.” Proof of this is the message he responds to in his video, in which he jokes that the baby “He is recreating what he sees with his parents.”
“Seeing a baby with those eyes is sexualizing a baby. You are crazy in the head,” he said. “It made me feel really bad. I have felt hurt. You can’t imagine the damage that type of comment does, really,” he added. Furthermore, Gallardo stressed that, although some consider it a joke, these types of expressions “It’s not a joke, it’s being a pedophile.”