SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Ayesha Curry , celebrity chef and wife to Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry , is opening up about a disturbing fan interaction.In a new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith's Facebook talk show, "Red Table Talk," Curry says the incident happened years ago when her daughter Riley was an infant. She says she was breastfeeding in the car when a group of Warriors fans came to ask her husband for photos and autographs. "The woman opens the car door, sticks her body in the car and she is like, 'Oh, let me see,'" Ayesha said.When she asked for privacy, the woman reportedly replied, "Oh honey, you know what you signed up for. "Ayesha also revealed how she feels about something every athlete's significant other deals with: groupies. "Stephen is very nice by nature, and he's very talkative," she said. "Everything's very friendly and sometimes to the point where I'm like, okay I'm a grown woman. So I just insert myself and be like 'Hello, how are you doing? '"Ayesha also admitted those same groupies sometimes make her feel insecure, something Pinkett Smith admitted as well.<doc-sep>Curry herself responded to the fallout by writing that her confession was made to help women "feel like they’re not alone and not the only one with an insecurity." Red Table Talk / Facebook A comment Ayesha Curry made on Monday's episode of Red Table Talk has made her the subject of endless memes and tweets — both in criticism and in support. The fallout from her interview with the women of Red Table Talk came in response to an admission she made of feeling insecure about the disproportionate attention she receives from men against the attention her husband, NBA star Steph Curry, receives from women. "Something that really bothers me, and honestly has given me a sense of a little bit of an insecurity, is the fact that — yeah, there are all these women, like, throwing themselves [at him], but me, like, the past 10 years, I don't have any of that," she said on the Facebook Watch show. "I have zero — this sounds weird — but, like, male attention, and so then I begin to internalize it, and I'm like, 'Is something wrong with me?'" Curry, a cookbook author, added that it's not attention she necessarily wants, "but it'd be nice to know that, like, someone's looking." The reaction on social media to the comment was immediate and ridiculing. People — many of them initially men — expressed that they found it to be absurd. And, of course, soon the memes followed. So many memes. Ayesha Curry: *walks past a group of guys on the street* Guys: *Don't cat call* Ayesha: @DonnLupepe / Twitter "Ayesha Curry upset 'cause other men won't shoot they shot with her, literally half the world know you're married to one of the GOAT and have kids, you want them to shoot they shot so you can curve them??" one person wrote. Many thought she was asking too much to be wanting attention from other men when she's married. "Don’t want no Ayesha Curry’s around me," another tweeted. "Tell a girl she beautiful a thousand times her dumb ass still need to hear it from the dope man." Others simply trolled her with jokes that have gone viral. *Ayesha Curry walks pass* Nobody: Ayesha: I just wanna be noticed Steph: @__Ivoooo / Twitter Nobody: Ayesha Curry walking past a group of men: @FatherAdz_ / Twitter On Wednesday, Curry finally addressed the spectacle and defended her comment with an Instagram post. "I am human," she wrote. "It brings me pure joy to speak my mind, be vulnerable at times and to know myself inside and out." She added that it was her "truth" to speak candidly about, and that her choice to be honest was in hopes that it "helps another woman like [her] feel like they’re not alone." "Seeing as how it’s mental health awareness month I really want to take the time to encourage everyone to speak their truth regardless of perception, fitting into a mold or offending someone, because it’s YOUR truth," the 30-year-old mom of three wrote. She concluded the Instagram post by adding, "As women let’s continue to uplift, empower, and not suppress and compress our feelings and thoughts, as fleeting as some of them may be." The conversation online has started to divide and shift. Some women are coming to Curry's defense by validating her feelings, and coming out with their own vulnerabilities and insecurities. "Y'all took a woman's moment, her honesty her openness her vulnerability and blew it out the water," said one person in a Facebook post. "What y'all don't realize is she put a conversation on the table that every woman is thinking about but ashamed to say." ayesha curry is every mother who’s ever looked at herself in the mirror and struggled with wondering if she’s still as beautiful as she use to be before child bearing changed her appearance. and that is why the men can’t understand. @poccahntas / Twitter Ayesha Curry isn’t wrong. The only true opinion and attention she cares about is her husbands but it is nice to be adored. If those of you in relationships disagree with her, delete all of your social media and only send your pictures and thoughts to your significant other. @Supreme_Riem / Twitter Many, however, are simply criticizing how the masses on social media handled the situation — and how a soundbite overwrote the entire interview. "That Red Table Talk with the women of the Curry family was fire as hell, with lots of gems and it's wack that y'all running with the 5 seconds of Ayesha discussing an insecurity," one person tweeted. Social media: we all have insecurities and we need to help, support and love each other through them. No ones perfect, we’re all trying to grow. *Ayesha Curry comes out with her insecurities* Also social media: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL *memes* *memes* *memes* *memes* @EarlBlackman / Twitter One user, @Nothinbuttreble, attempted to offer a more diplomatic response to the entire debate. "Conversations about our differences aren't productive or progressive, 'cause everybody's so busy trying to be right," they added. It's unclear if @Nothinbuttreble has been on Twitter long enough to know how things degenerate on the platform.<doc-sep>If you happened to spend any time on social media Tuesday, you may have noticed that Twitter was straight-up dragging Ayesha Curry — Covergirl, cookbook author and wife of Golden State Warriors’ point guard Stephen Curry. And when you find out why the Twittersphere went scorched earth on Ayesha, you might feel perplexed and annoyed in equal measure. Well, that’s how we feel about the situation anyway. The trouble apparently started when Ayesha sat down with her mother-in-law Sonya, sister-in-law Sydell and sister Callie Rivers for an episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s popular Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk. One of the first topics the ladies tackled? Stephen’s female fans. “Stephen is very nice by nature, and he’s very talkative. Everything is always very friendly, sometimes to the point that I insert myself, like, ‘Hello, how are you doing?’ The ladies will always be lurking, hoping for their moment. You need to be aware of that,” Ayesha said, adding that her husband of ten years is often naïve to the advances. “There have been a couple of times where I’ve wanted to punch somebody in the face. It’s never him. He can’t see it coming. I see it from a mile away.” Related stories George Clooney Reveals Amal Banned Him From This Dangerous Hobby Ayesha Curry Gets Candid, Says She Knows "Ladies Will Always Be Lurking" Around Stephen Curry Kit Harington's Favorite Game of Thrones Scene with Rose Leslie Is So Dark Some detractors took issue with the fact that Ayesha feels the need to curve women who hit on her husband (although, c’mon, she seems to be doing so in a civil way). However, far more took issue with the specific way Stephen’s groupies make Ayesha feel insecure. “What really bothers me and has honestly given me a little bit of a sense of insecurity is the fact that, yeah, there are all these women throwing themselves. But me, like the past 10 years, I don’t have any of that,” she confessed. “It sounds weird, but I have zero male attention. So, then I begin to internalize it, like, ‘Is something wrong with me?’” Story continues Cue the vitriol of Twitter, y’all. So, wait. Ayesha is a “pick me,” anti-feminist shame for expressing emotions that are both understandable and human? Fortunately, for every person shaming Ayesha for telling her truth, there was another fan defending her. There isn’t enough time in the day to fully address this mess. But let’s start with the painfully apparent and salient fact that (contrary to many, many tweets) Ayesha wasn’t asking for men to slide into her DMs or catcall her or solicit an extramarital relationship. As she points out, she doesn’t want another man; it would just be “nice to know that somebody’s looking.” Haters will point out that she’s married to an incredibly successful man who clearly loves her, but the two have surprisingly little to do with one another. In fact, psychologists have dubbed the way Ayesha feels as “invisible woman syndrome.” Typically, academics center discussions about this syndrome on women in their 40s and 50s. But when you’re a mother or have been in a relationship for as long as Ayesha and Stephen have, we tender that it can happen at any age — this “overwhelming feeling of being invisible and irrelevant” or unworthy of the “male gaze.” Many of us cross this threshold at some point, where we begin to feel as though we simply aren’t being seen. And, to be honest, it sucks. So dragging Ayesha for vocalizing what emotions most of us experience at some point feels pretty petty. She may be famous but she’s still human, and her feelings are definitely relatable. Sign up for SheKnows' Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Click here to read the full article.<doc-sep>Steph Curry and Ayesha Curry are one of the power couples in basketball right now. While Steph Curry is out here winning championships with the Golden State Warriors, Ayesha has become a successful entrepreneur who is also an established cook with her own restaurant. Ayesha was recently on an episode of Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk where she spoke about her relationship with Curry and how she's had to fend off groupies in the past. While Curry's comments on groupies had already been seen in a teaser video, it was what she had to say about male attention that got people upset. As she explains in the episode, she doesn't get very much attention from men, which had made her insecure about herself. She is constantly comparing herself to Steph in that regard, which has forced her to reflect inward. "Something that really bothers me, and honestly has given me a sense of a little bit of an insecurity, is the fact that yeah there are all these women, like, throwing themselves (at him), but me, like the past 10 years, I don't have any of that," Curry said. "I have zero – this sounds weird – but, like, male attention, and so then I begin to internalize it, and I'm like, 'Is something wrong with me?'" As soon as the clip made it to social media, the Twitterverse exploded with memes dragging Ayesha through the mud. Many people took exception to her comments, saying with such a loving husband, she shouldn't look towards other men to validate her. Some believe her comments were taken out of context while others are outraged that she would say such a thing. Where do you stand on this issue?<doc-sep>
Ayesha Curry is getting support from her husband, Stephen, following the buzz –and backlash – stemming from her appearance on "Red Table Talk" Monday. The Golden State Warriors basketball player shared his praise on his Instagram Story early Friday. "proud of you for being authentic and Putting yourself out there – not being afraid of potential bull s#*# and nonsense that could and did come at you," read text over a photo of the couple married since 2011. "Way more positive than negative with all of this. Keep being you. I love you.” Curry, a cookbook author and TV host, opened up on the Facebook Watch series hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris about her self-doubt stemming from a lack of male attention. She took to Instagram with her thoughts Wednesday. "I have never been one to cage my feelings and emotions to any capacity," she captioned a photo of herself tossing a pair of Spanx into a "Marie Kondo-Esque" bin. "I am human. It brings me pure joy to speak my mind, be vulnerable at times and to know myself inside and out." Noting that May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Curry said she wanted "to encourage everyone to speak their truth regardless of perception, fitting into a mold or offending someone, because it’s YOUR truth. And that’s okay! "If what I’m not afraid to say out loud about being a 30yr mama of 3 helps another woman like me feel like they’re not the alone and not the only one with an insecurity (because we ALL have them, don’t play) then that makes all of this hoopla worth it," she continued. "If you get a chance to watch the actual ('Red Table Talk') and not the headlines and rumors please do! "There is so much more depth to the talk and our family is grateful to @jadapinkettsmith for giving us the opportunity to bond together," she added. "As women let’s continue to uplift, empower and not suppress and compress our feelings and thoughts, as fleeting as some of them may be 😏. "Love to you all!" she said in conclusion. "Go FIND YOUR JOY and SPEAK YOUR TRUTH unapologetically." On "Red Table Talk," Curry opened up about how it makes her feel when women fawn over her husband. "Something that really bothers me, and honestly has given me a sense of a little bit of an insecurity, is the fact that yeah, there are all these women, like, throwing themselves (at him), but me, like the past 10 years, I don't have any of that," she said. "I have zero – this sounds weird – but, like, male attention, and so then I begin to internalize it, and I'm like, 'Is something wrong with me?' " Pinkett Smith admitted she "dealt with that for years, too" when she was younger. "I don't want it," Curry added, "but it'd be nice to know that, like, someone's lookin'." "You're beautiful," Pinkett Smith reminded her guest. "Don't ever think for one minute that it ain't no some men out there looking at you like, 'I wish.' And I'mma tell you who knows that more than anybody: Your husband." More:Ayesha Curry: Secret to long marriage to Stephen Curry is putting him first, not kids More:Ayesha Curry shuts down Instagram critic for talking about her daughter's hair Naturally, Twitter had opinions. "A holy woman like Ayesha want attentions from the dogs?" a tweet read. "Ayesha is married to a great man that she has kids with ... but Is worried bout not getting male attention," a person wrote, adding a confused emoji. Others agreed with her. "I don’t look for the attention of other men but it is nice knowing like 'damn, I still got it' regardless of if I have a man or not," revealed one person. Want news from USA TODAY on WhatsApp? Click this link on your mobile device to get started "Having strangers compliment you make you feel good every now and then," another wrote. "I’m in a secure relationship but others acknowledging me being pretty or smart makes me feel good" Some came to Curry's defense. "People hating Ayesha Curry for admitting how she feels is (expletive) backwards to me," read one post. "We’re all insecure in some area. She shouldn’t be getting crucified for telling her truth." "I can’t believe you guys are still talking about Ayesha. Leave the girl alone," one person tweeted.