Stephen Curryis standing up for his wifeAyeshaafter she was mocked for doing the “Milly Rock” dance at her new restaurant.
“Slow news day today, I see, huh?” the Golden State Warriors star, 31, said in a video shared on his Instagram Stories Wednesday. “Just make sure y’all send me the video of you dancing at your own restaurant opening.”
He then panned the camera to show Ayesha, who was hiding her face in embarrassment.
“I hate you,” she jokingly said.
On Tuesday, Ayesha, 30,went viral after a video surfacedof her dancing at the opening of International Smoke in Del Mar, California — her fourth restaurant.
Social media users were quick tocriticize her moveswriting, “Ayesha Curry should go to jail for dancing like that… man flat out.”
“I feel so bad for Steph,” another usertweeted.
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“When do we get to stop watching this lady? Curry look like he’s at church and ready to leave?” a differenttweetread.
Nonetheless, Stephen wasn’t the only one to come to Ayesha’s defense.
“So @AyeshaCurry was trending because she was dancing for her man? What’s wrong with that? She doesn’t have to be the best dancer. Her man knows what’s up,” one fanwroteon Twitter.
“Ayesha Curry dancing was cute and she was having fun y’all just love to hate on women,” another fanexpressed.
“I Milly Rock like Ayesha Curry all the time because I think it’s funny. Sometimes women wanna dance goofy instead of twerking all the time. Let people live!!” one usertweeted.
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Ayesha has yet to publicly comment on the backlash, but instead has shared aplethora of photosof her new eatery.
“Yesterday was a dream. We celebrated our 4th @internationalsmoke opening in Del Mar. I can’t thank the team enough. I have no words. This will never feel normal,” Ayesha captioned the slideshow, which starts with her cutting the ribbon.
“I am so grateful. Thank you to my family and friends for coming to support me as well. We didn’t get pictures because we had wayyyy too much fun,” she added.
Ayesha’sother restaurantsare located in Aventura, Florida; Houston, Texas; and San Francisco, California.
The dancing incident comes after Ayesha was forced toshut down critics, who credited her success in the food industry to her husband.
“I think a lot of people do not take me seriously,” said the mom todaughters Riley, 6, and Ryan, 4, and son Canon, 1, inWorking Mother‘s June/July cover story. “They think this is something I’ve obtained because of my husband’s income. That’s not true. He hasn’t invested a dime in my restaurant business.”
Ayesha shared a particularly frustrating time when a male reporter “bashed” her on live television, telling her she should “be more like the other [basketball] players’ wives,” she recalled. “He literally said, ‘They sit there, they don’t cause any problems, and they look pretty.’”
“Why am I not allowed to have a passion and a dream and a voice?” she added. “That started a fire in me. I could not be stopped, and I wanted to prove myself.”
And prove herself she has. The Food Network star has since added a cookware line and meal kit to her resume. Her hard work is paying off, too: The critics have quieted a bit.
“Stephen doesn’t get any negative [questions] about me,” she toldWorking Mother. “Especially in the Bay Area, people say to him, ‘I like her food a lot,’ and that’s been special for me.”
source: people.com
