Asian Paparazzi - Celebrity Status

Here in Thailand, the people are very friendly, and they seem to enjoy babies like most other cultures do. However, Asians have a particular love for babies like our Adam, because the light hair and round blue eyes awes them. (I generalize and say Asians because we encountered Korean tour groups and Chinese, as well as the native Thai people here and the reaction has been universal.)

From the moment we landed in the airport and a security guard asked to take a photo of him (which had me very concerned at first!), we’ve had frequent questions of people asking to take pictures with Adam. And those are the nice people, the ones who ask. Usually, the Asians ninja-in, snap a photo, and ninja-out as you can see from my stalker photo evidence below.

This is not the best quality photo because I had to snap it quickly as we were walking, but this is me taking a creeper picture of two Asian women taking creeper pictures of Adam. Grandpa was holding him and walking a ways ahead of us, and I noticed numerous Asians come up behind him and take sneaky photos of Adam. 

If you ever want to feel like a celebrity, take a blond haired blue-eyed child to Asia and simply walk around. They will whip out their smart phones and start snapping. As we stroll around and visit various places, we have gotten the Asians taking “creeper shots” (without us knowing), ones who pop in (knowingly pop in and take a snap), ones who ask for his picture, and ones who pose with him while others take the picture.

This woman popped in front of us as we walked. 

Classic Asian photo taking position. 

Sometimes it can get a bit overwhelming when there’s a tourist group and one or two notice Adam and stop us to take a picture. Then the others in the group turn to see what they’re taking a picture of and decide they want one to, whether because they like him or simply because everyone else got a picture of the fair child, but then a small crowd begins to form and as they slowly surround you, you began to fear you’re being mobbed…

Everytime we went out to eat, it was almost a guarantee that the waitresses would abduct him and carry him around with them from table to table. 


It has been an interesting and often fun cultural experience, and if you happen to have a blonde haired blue-eyed child you plan on taking with you to Asia, be prepared for the Asian mobs!