Celebration time! Cree,1, crawls through a playground tunnel in excitement as mom Tia watches proudly.

Tia Mowry-Hardrict continues to show off her little man despite some Internet comments that criticized his looks. “He’s the biggest joy of my life. Why would I want to hide that,” Mowry tells Sister2Sister magazine . “The thing is that Cree lives in the real world. To overly protect him—I think—will hurt him. This isn’t the last time somebody’s going to critique him or pick on him. Everybody has been a product of some sort of bullying. I have gotten so much support and love from my fans. I never realized… I guess I never really realized the power of support from fans until this situation that came about. It’s making me a stronger person.”

Tia recently came to her child’s aid after finding that some people were calling him an “ugly” baby saying, “It’s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.”

Cree is Tia and husband Cory Hardrict’s first child together.

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