Actress Julianne Moore said Instagram posts On Sunday, she was “a big shock” on her children's book, which is said to be banned by President Donald Trump's Department of Defense.
“It's a huge shock to me to know that my first book, Freckleface Strawberry, is being banned by the Trump administration from schools run by the Department of Defense,” Julianne Moore said in an Instagram post. .
Moore, who won an Oscar for her film Still Alice in 2015, published a children's book called “Freckleface Strawberry” in 2007.
In her Instagram post, Moore said the book was “a seven-year-old who hates her freckles and learns to live with them when she realizes she is different “just like everyone else.” He said it was a semi-autobiographical story about a girl.
Fox News Digital contacted the Department of Defense for comment and was featured in the Department of Defense Educational Activities, the DOD entity planning and implementing K-to-12 grade education programming for the Department of Defense. He was referred to the Department of Pentagon but did not receive a response immediately.
January 26th, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegses I said in I'll post it on x DOD will terminate all DEI programming and comply with President Donald Trump's inauguration day order to comply with the federal government's DEI office closure order.
A part of the preview of Moore's book on Amazon is, “If you have freckles, you can try these things. 1) Erase them. Unless the scrubs work. 2) Cover them. Mom Unless you're screaming using markers. 3) It's gone. Umm, where did you go? Ah, you're there. There's one more thing you can do: 4) Live with them! In the end But making you different makes you yours.”
“I am particularly surprised as I am a proud graduate of Frankfurt America High School, which was once run in Frankfurt, Germany,” Moore said. “I grew up with my veteran father in Vietnam and spent his career at #Usarmy. I couldn't be proud of him and his service to our country.”
She added: [The Department of Defense Education Activity] Schools do not have access to books written by people whose life experiences are very similar to theirs. And I can't help but wonder what is so controversial about this picture book, and it's banned by the US government. ”
Fox News Digital reached out to Moore for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
