Emerson Tenney’s paparazzi reversal

Never having hired a nanny and constantly going oncamping trips in their "olive green, Scooby Doo" V.W. bus,Teri Hatcher has made no secret of her daughter Emerson Rose, 9 1/2, being her toppriority in life. However, life in Hollywood is a bit different.

While on The View on Friday, the 42-year-old actress discussed the relentlesspaparazzi and how she and Emerson turned the cameras on them. As aguest editor for the UK Glamour, she gave Emerson a camera to shoot thepaparazzi for one piece.

I did not expect how empowering it was for her, like not in anasty way. It’s just like we pull up at an ATM machine or something andthey all surround us in cars and started shooting us and I hand her thecamera she just starts walking towards the cars and started shootingthem. Since this article came out, they have really laid off and Idunno if it’s because of that or I’m just suddenly not hot anymore, butwhat was important about it was it was really empowering to her. 

Because she is raising a daughter, Teri says she’s doing herbest to protect Emerson from succumbing to image issues and not to feedher "burnt toast," her metaphor for women settling for second best in life and the title of her 2006 memoir, Burnt Toast: AndOther Philosophies of Life ($18).

I think you have to teach your child their self-worth through how you behave with yourself.