Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel stands up for wife Miranda Kerr
Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel has rushed to model wife Miranda Kerr’s defence during an awkward exchange with a journalist at a technology conference in San Francisco.
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Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel has rushed to model wife Miranda Kerr’s defence during an awkward exchange with a journalist at a technology conference in San Francisco.
Interviewer Josh Constine of TechCrunch asked Spiegel whether he agrees with the Aussie supermodel’s belief that smartphones can emit harmful levels of Electromagnetic fields (EMF) — but the 29-year-old billionaire did not directly answer the question.
“Are you trying to shame my wife in an interview?” Spiegel said on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt event.
Constine, Editor-At-Large for the publication TechCrunch, cited a May interview in which wellness entrepreneur Kerr said the couple use EMF protection stickers as an anti-radiation shield for their smartphones.
“Uh … you know, I haven’t had an opportunity to look into it but you know if you’re married — which I think you are — you probably understand how you want to support your partner and everything that they believe,” Spiegel said.
He also confirmed he does not currently have an EMF protection sticker on the back of his phone.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), which is the Australian government’s primary authority on radiation protection and nuclear safety, has stated that “there is no established evidence that exposure to low level electromagnetic fields causes adverse health effects”.
Spiegel and Kerr were married in 2017.
They share Kerr’s nine-year-old son Flynn from her marriage to Orlando Bloom, a one-year-old son Hart and are set to welcome another child.