Blake Lively slams 'frightening' paparazzi who 'stalked' her and her young daughters for photos

• Blake Lively wrote an Instagram post on Saturday that called out the paparazzi.
• Lively, 33, claimed her daughters were being "stalked" by a man trying to take their photograph.
• She shares three daughters with fellow actor Ryan Reynolds.

Blake Lively didn't hold back against paparazzi who she said "stalked" her children for photographs.

The former "Gossip Girl" star shared a now-deleted Instagram comment on Saturday in response to a series of paparazzi photos taken of hers and her three daughters. She shared six-year-old James, four-year-old Inez, and 21-month-old Betty with Ryan Reynolds.

Lively, 33, first said that the images of her looking happy and smiling towards the camera were "deceitful."

"The real story is: My children were being stalked by a men [sic] all day. Jumping out. And then hiding," wrote Lively, according to a screenshot from the Comments By Celebs account.

Lively said she approached a photographer at one point, but the man "would run away. And jump out again at the next block."

"Do you do background checks on the photographs you pay to stalk children?" she wrote in the screenshot. "Where is your morality here? I would like to know. Or do you simply not care about the safety of children?"

She continued that to get the paparazzi to leave her children alone, she agreed to smile and wave for photos because "it was frightening."

"Please stop paying grown a-- men to hide and hunt children," Lively wrote in the screenshot. "There are plenty of pictures you could've published without the kids."

Lively's plea with the paparazzi comes nearly two weeks after model Gigi Hadid shared a similar impassioned message regarding her daughter, 10-month-old Khai.

"Our wish is that she can choose how to share herself with the world when she comes of age," Hadid, 26, wrote. "And that she can live as normal of a childhood as possible, without worrying about a public image that she has not chosen."