“Acquiring kids” is Hollywood’s newest dystopian dream.
Kristen Stewart, of the Twilight movie franchise fame, was recently featured on the February cover of Rolling Stone for an “uncensored” exclusive punctuated by frequent vulgarities and accompanied by vaguely pornographic images, including one of Stewart wearing a jockstrap.
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The actress, who came out as lesbian in 2017 on Saturday Night Live and accepted her now-fiancée’s marriage proposal in 2021, made her “gayness” a central part of interview with Rolling Stone.
“Now, I want to do the gayest f***ing thing you’ve ever seen in your life,” Stewart said. “If I could grow a little mustache, if I could grow a f***ing happy trail and unbutton my pants, I would.”
She is also, she claims, ready to start a family. “I don’t know what my family’s going to look like, but there’s no f***ing way that I don’t start acquiring kids,” Stewart told the magazine.
Throughout the article, Stewart paints a picture of a life punctuated by trauma, insomnia, and deep anxiety, the latter of which eventually led to a brief hospital visit.
Stewart has been direct about her sexuality since coming out, and Rolling Stone claims that her “openness … has likely been a model for others.”
“My sexuality is totally fluid,” she described.
This has seeped into her career as well, as Stewart spent years writing a screenplay for The Chronology of Water, a bisexual memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch. Rolling Stone describes the screenplay as “a cult favorite about female shame and female rage and female art and female-on-female BDSM.”
According to Stewart, it’s “so taboo it’s almost horny.” She hasn’t yet raised the money to start filming.
Stewart is also starring in the movie Love Lies Bleeding, a crime thriller featuring a lesbian “romance” that is set to be released on March 8. Stewart told Rolling Stone the movie felt personal to her “in a way she hadn’t expected.”
Stewart’s interview quickly sparked outrage on social media, with many on both sides of the political spectrum voicing concerns about her language on “acquiring” children.
“Acquiring kids? With that attitude, maybe she should consider not doing that,” one user posted on X.
SurrogacyConcern, a U.K.-based campaign focused on highlighting the negative impacts of surrogacy, pointed out the consumerist mindset behind Stewart’s statement, arguing that too many celebrities “think[] babies come like Amazon packages.”
Stewart’s comments even caught the attention of high-profile conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, who called her language “dystopian.”
As expected, the mainstream media has been quick to jump to Stewart’s defense.
Rolling Stone hit back with an article describing how “Right-Wingers Are Terrified of Our Gay Kristen Stewart Cover.” In the piece, the magazine called out Christopher Rufo for “deadnaming” the self-identified transgender man Elliot “Ellen” Page in his critique of the Stewart cover.
It isn’t fear that drove the conservatives to lambast Stewart on X — they seem to be more concerned with how lightly Hollywood treats parenthood.
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