The British singer and his wife Cherry confirmed the birth of their first child, Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran, in September last year.
During a new interview on Sunrise, the 30-year-old said he wanted to make sure she grew up out of the spotlight despite her dad’s superstar status.
“I’ve signed up for this, I’m a public figure, I’m a celebrity, I’m a singer that people want to know about,” he explained.
“But with my daughter, I just hope that people have respect and common decency and don’t sneak iPhone photographs here and there.”
Sheeran went on to reveal that a sneaky photographer had managed to “get a picture” of Lyra “really early on,” labeling the situation “f**king weird.”
“It’s an old man that we don’t know, taking a picture of a baby that he doesn’t know and I just think that needs to be unnormalized.”
“When she was born, we released a statement to the press basically saying ‘please leave her alone don’t try and get pictures and don’t stalk her.”
The interview comes as Sheeran returns to the charts with Bad Habits, the first song from his upcoming album.
The catchy track is a shift for the star, who said he was sick of being known as “the wedding song guy.”