These moms are making their kids, as young as 2, snap them for Instagram

HEN Latham Thomas became engaged in April, her Instagram flooded with pics of her in the bathtub or at the beach doing yoga — but her fiancé was nowhere in sight. “We didn’t have any pictures together because he was taking pictures of me,” says the 36-year-old Chelsea-based doula, who has 42,000 followers.

But her fiancé is off the hook now that Thomas’ 12-year-old son, Fulano, has taken over camera duty. “Who [else] is going to take it for you? A stranger?” asks Thomas. “[The photos] never come out well. Your kid knows Mommy likes it this way.”

Men are rejoicing now that “Instagram husbands” — the guys who become de facto Ansel Adamses for their social-mediaobsessed better halves — are being replaced with “Instagram kids.” Thomas saw the trend officially take off last month. “I was at a Halloween event, and instead of the moms taking photos of the kids, kids were taking pictures of Mom in her costume,” she says.

For June Ambrose, a celebrity stylist who posts up to six times a day for her 575,000 followers, her kiddie photographers know the drill.

“There’s a lot of perks [for the kids],” says Ambrose, whose 15-yearold son, Chance, and 12-year-old daughter, Summer, have been on camera duty for three years. The 45-year-old Midtown East mom says her kids join her for premieres, trips to exotic locales such as Anguilla, and star-studded media events. “Sometimes I’ll give them photo credit — they like the recognition.”

Some aspiring fashion fotogs aren’t even out of diapers. “I’ve seen kids in strollers taking pics of their moms — it’s hysterical,” says Ambrose.

Marnie Nathanson, a social-media consultant, taught her daughter Rory to point and shoot at age 2.

“Allowing Rory to be a ‘pint-size paparazzi’ allows her to explore her world in a creative way. I love seeing the world from her point of view,” says the 31-year-old mom of two from Cranford, NJ. “She loves doing Snapchat.”

But experts fear there could be unintended consequences. “It shows the child that the publicity of the event is more important than the event,” says Upper East Side-based therapist Kathryn Smerling.

Most importantly, these kids may help their moms see that there’s more to life than an updated Instagram.

“Sometimes I’m kind of like, ‘Ugh, another event?’ ” says Summer, Ambrose’s daughter, of the endless photographing. “It can be overwhelming.”