Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli welcomed their first child, Vamika, in January of last year. The two have been sharing updates and photos of their daughter with millions of fans and followers on their Instagram accounts, but have yet to reveal her face.

On Sunday, during a cricket match in Cape Town, South Africa, a camera person panned the camera towards Anushka and Vamika as they celebrated Virat’s on-field performance, revealing Vamika’s face for the first time. Vamika’s photos have been all over the internet since then.

The celebrity couple, who have been pleading with the media and fans to keep their daughter out of the spotlight, have now issued a statement:

“Hi guys! We realise that or daughters images were captured at the stadium yesterday and widely shared thereafter. We want to inform everyone that we were caught off guard and didn’t know that the camera was on us. Our stance and request on the matter stays the same. We would really appreciate if Vamika’s images are not clicked/published for reasons we have explained earlier. Thank you! (sic).”

Some fans couldn’t keep their cool after finally seeing their daughter. Other internet users, on the other hand, reacted angrily and demanded that the paparazzi remove Vamika’s photo from circulation. Many fans even asked to report the tweets and tagged official accounts to have them removed.

Anushka took to Instagram in December last year to thank the paparazzi for not circulating and posting Vamika’s photos.

We seek privacy for our child and would like to do our best to give her a chance to live her life freely away from media and social media. As she is older, we cannot restrict her movement and hence your support is needed so kindly practice restraint in the matter,” she added.

“A special thank you to fan clubs and people of the internet for going out of your way to not post images. It was kind and highly mature of you,” she concluded the statement.

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