- Kristen Bell celebrated her anniversary with Dax Shepard on Instagram, and the caption is getting backlash.
- Followers feel like the post is making light of domestic violence.
- Kristen and Dax have been married for 12 years.
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard hit a major relationship milestone this month: 12 years of marriage. And the Nobody Wants This star celebrated by posting a cute photo of herself and Dax hugging, paired with a caption that's caused a lot of backlash:
"Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: 'I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.' ❤️"
Many fans feel the caption is a miss in general, and is especially tone deaf during domestic violence awareness month. Some comments?
"Kristen there’s no way you posted this during domestic violence awareness month."
"As someone who has survived domestic violence, that’s a little triggering."
"1. Congratulations! 2. I know the caption is supposed to be cute, funny, but worldwide a women is killed every ten minutes by their partner...#stopviolenceagainstwomen."
"That’s….a very weird thing to say."
"Domestic violence isn’t a joke."
"I totally get making this type of joke between yourselves as a couple if you both know what wavelength you're on. Making it publicly when the amount of women and girls falling victim to femicide is increasing along with the normalisation of misogyny is dangerous and gross."
Kristen hasn't commented on the backlash from her post, but the image is still up on her Instagram and the caption remains the same.
