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Kristen Bell restricts Instagram comments after backlash over Dax Shepard anniversary post

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Updated 17:33 6 Mar 2026 GMTPublished 13:20 20 Oct 2025 GMT+1

Kristen Bell restricts Instagram comments after backlash over Dax Shepard anniversary post

It was a rather strange thing to say

Joe Harker

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Kristen Bell has restricted comments on her Instagram post after a backlash over her recognising a dozen years with Dax Shepard.

She recently celebrated 12 years of marriage in a post which showed Shepard, though the caption besides the image got quite a bit of a reaction.

Bell wrote: "Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me:

"I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would."

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It's certainly not your traditional wedding anniversary message and the reactions to it were mixed, to say the least, with some of their friends such as Terry Crews saying 'this is LOVE' and others calling it 'the most romantic thing I've heard', while many others thought it was quite the opposite.

There was quite the backlash to the post as plenty of people hoped the caption was an in-joke between Bell and Shepard.

Several people, Howie Mandel among them, joked that Shepard's declaration that he would never kill his wife despite being 'heavily incentivized' to should get him a job writing for a greetings card company.

Many others, however, were not really seeing the funny side at all as they said she posted it 'during domestic violence awareness month', while some asked Bell 'please don't joke' about it.

Someone else said she should 'read the room, hun' and another said it seemed like a 'weird quote'.

Even the NBC show Dateline hopped into the comments to say 'screenshotted', and Bell has since restricted comments on several of her posts to put a lid on them.

Kristen Bell raised some eyebrows with her anniversary tribute to husband Dax Shepard (Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage)
Kristen Bell raised some eyebrows with her anniversary tribute to husband Dax Shepard (Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage)

It's not the first time Bell and Shepard have been strange on social media.

When she got nominated for an Emmy for Netflix show Nobody Wants This he posted a congratulations to her in the form of her doing some naked stretches with a red modesty box placed over her bum.

She seems to have been fine with it as she shared the post to her own socials and her celebrity friends seemed to find the funny side as they cheered Bell on.

Shepard responded to Mae Whitman's comment of 'Incredible form' with a string of emojis indicating he was crying with laughter.

Elsewhere in their marriage, Bell revealed that their children had been trying to order non-alcoholic beer after getting a taste for it at home and said she told them 'maybe we just keep that for home time'.

Featured Image Credit: Instagram/kristenanniebell

Topics: Celebrity, Weird, Sex and Relationships, Instagram, Social Media

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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