This celebrity selfie craze is getting out of hand — with even Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña saying she’s being hit up by fans for snapshots.
The leader of the nation’s largest school system said she has so many admirers wanting to snap photos with her that she can’t even go to the market without getting all gussied up for the inevitable photo op.
“One of the things of this job I didn’t even get is how many people want to have their pictures taken, I mean selfies,” she said Thursday at a Harvard education forum. “I dress up to go to the supermarket. And I never did that before.”
Last year, selfies got the attention of the White House when Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz took a picture with President Obama during a Rose Garden ceremony to honor team’s World Series victory.
It was revealed that Ortiz had a deal with Samsung to put the pic on Twitter, leading a presidential spokesman to complain.
“I can say as a rule, the White House objects to attempts to use the president’s likeness for commercial purposes,” said then-press secretary Jay Carney.
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