The "Little Fires Everywhere" actress has decided against publishing photos of her children, Isabelle, 6, and Caleb, 3. Washington also shares her husband Nnamdi Asomugha's daughter from a previous relationship.
However, she admitted that she still has the temptation to share memories together on her social media accounts on an episode of NBC's "Today" in November 2019.
"I have moments where I take pictures or videos of one of my three amazing kids and I want to post it online, and I tend to just send it to my parents or to my shrink instead. I'm like, 'My kids are so cute and I don't want to post about them, so look at how cute they are!'" she said. "I have a private Instagram to my shrink and he loves it!"
She joked that having her therapist watching her content isn't always positive for her ego.
"It's not great when I get parenting feedback, incidentally, based on something he heard me say in the background of the video," she said.
Her decision to keep her children off her social media pages doesn't come as a massive surprise given the fact that Washington has kept her personal life out of the spotlight for years.
"I decided not to talk about my personal life that much in the press. Because I've had some experiences where I had talked about my personal life, and it didn't feel good," she said during the interview.