Beyonce fans have defended her after many people criticized the singer for letting her daughter Blue Ivy wear a glamorous strapless gold dress at the Los Angeles premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King.
Blue, 12, looked all grown up as she posed with her parents on the red carpet at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Monday night, just one day after her father Jay-Z was named in a lawsuit claiming he had a 13-year-old raped. girl with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2000.
Seeing photos of Blue in the metallic dress, featuring a train, many people rushed to X – formerly known as Twitter – to share their thoughts.
‘She’s twelve. A little overdressed perhaps?’ one person suggested, as another wrote: ‘Blue Ivy looks older than twelve and that’s bad. Another case of a harried child.’
A third X user commented: ‘Is this an appropriate dress for a 12 year old? Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy is dressed for the red carpet way beyond her age!’
A fourth person claimed: ‘Blue Ivy looks like she’s 23 years old. She doesn’t look like any twelve-year-old I know.”
A fifth said: ‘I thought Blue Ivy was 12?! Why do they make her look like she’s 18?’ and someone else added: ‘Blue Ivy is 12? That’s a twelve year old?!?! Oh dear God…’
Another person added: ‘Okay so I looked on was. She’s 12. I’m older than her. Oh my God!’
Beyonce’s daughter Blue Ivy pictured at the Los Angeles premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King on December 9
Many people have criticized the singer for letting her 12-year-old child wear the strapless gold dress
And someone else fumed: ‘The trend of making pre-teens and young teens look like they are experienced adults needs to end.
“There is no reason for this little girl – because she still has the brain of a child – to dress like this,” they added.
Another person posted a video of Blue posing on the red carpet with Beyonce and Jay-Z and wrote, “This is insane for obvious reasons but I also think we need to acknowledge that Blue Ivy is 12 and her in so Tucking a dress is fucking weird, sorry.”
But many fans were quick to defend Beyonce, as one claimed: ‘She’s wearing a ball gown. Many little girls wear this type of Disney dress. You’re just sexualizing it because Blue Ivy is developing. She can’t do anything about that.
“But the fact that you’re focused on the developing cleavage of a 13-year-old in a big dress makes YOU weird — and not her parents,” she added.
A second person wrote: “Blue Ivy had that ball gown on for 20 minutes. After the carpet, she changed into a completely different two-strap dress. You guys are so weird sometimes. She still looks twelve.”
A third said: ‘Your moral panic over Blue Ivy’s dress and make-up is not convincing at all. That’s her first really serious film premiere. There’s nothing inappropriate about a tall girl, one who probably developed early, wearing a ball gown and makeup. There’s nothing to sexualize.’
Someone else wrote: ‘Oh they better leave Blue Ivy alone too! There was nothing wrong with her dress and she looked very beautiful and age appropriate!’
Beyonce fans were quick to defend her on X, saying people are “weird.”
One person claimed there was “nothing inappropriate” about Blue Ivy’s gold dress
Another X user compared the gold garment to a “Disney dress” and accused people of “sexualizing” Blue
Blue was joined at the event by her father Jay-Z and her grandmother Tina Knowles
Blue Ivy looked like a natural as she posed on the red carpet at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Monday night
Another person said: ‘I don’t care what anyone says, I love this dress from Blue Ivy. It’s a beautiful princess ball gown, not too mature and not too young. I think she and Harper Beckham are the nepo kids who are always right.”
Singer Christina Milian also defended the outfit during a performance on Sherri Shepherd’s show, SherriTuesday when her hair was asked.
‘First of all, she looks beautiful. I think the fact that someone has something to say about someone else’s daughter, any minor, I think you should just mind your business,” Christina, 43, said of Blue Ivy’s appearance.
‘She’s talented, she toured the world with her mother, like you can’t say anything. You can’t dim that shine,” the Disney star continued.
Sherri then said that Blue was acting “so poised” when Christina agreed and said, “Make that baby glow!”