Jada Pinkett Smith Goes Private on Instagram After Posting That ‘a Woman Is Told She Must Belong to Someone’

Jada Pinkett Smith has set her Instagram account to private.

The 52-year-old actress decided over the holiday weekend to remove public access to her Instagram profile. 

Her decision follows her Monday, Sept. 2 post that included a photo of text that read: “A man can CHOOSE to belong to someone. And if he does… he is considered noble. A woman is told she MUST belong to someone or … she is not worthy.”

The post's caption read: "Even in some of our great religious traditions the goddess is rendered powerless without her male counterpart. And in others, the spiritual influence of the feminine, of Mother ... is not even recognized."

"We mere mortal women are worthy simply because we exist! And those of us who have cultivated our Queendom within our inner kingdom and have a deep relationship with the Great Supreme ... If we so CHOOSE to bond with someone from this space ... we will erect monumental love and give birth to treasures," continued the caption. "We need not bond in fear. You ... are ... greatness.❣️Walk with that this here Monday🫂♥️✨."

On Sunday, Sept. 1, she published an Instagram carousel, in which she officially said goodbye to summer.

Her set of photos featured a selfie by the beach and a video of her riding a jet ski with an unidentified man.

“Summer is coming to an end and my heart has been blooming in so many ways. Ca -

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n’t wait to share. Till then…I’m just embracing the last of the summer vibez,” she captioned the post.

However, fans and followers asked who the unidentified man was, with some even joking that it was Will Smith.

Pinkett Smith's recent Instagram activity comes nearly a year after she opened up to PEOPLE about her relationship with the Bad Boys: Ride or Die star. “I’m going to be by his side,” she said of their relationship amid the release of her memoir Worthy last fall.

The couple, who tied the knot on New Year's Eve in 1997, have been married for 26 years and share two children: son Jaden, 26, and daughter Willow, 23. The King Richard actor also shares son Trey, 31, with ex-wife Sheree Zampino.

As for the state of her marriage to Smith, Pinkett Smith said they were "still figuring it out" and revealed that they had been separated since 2016.

“We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together," she added. "We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”

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PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Pinkett Smith for comment.

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