“It’s so invasive,” the Love Guru star tells the March issue of Elle magazine. “It’s not like they’re standing 100 feet away. They’re in your face, not letting you walk, standing in the way when you’re driving. It becomes a situation and it doesn’t need to be.”

Jessica has been an increasing target for the Los Angeles snappers, since she gave birth to daughter Honor, now eight months.

“Kids pick up on your energy, so the more upset you get about it, the more your kids are affected by it,” she says. “But I understand how Sean Penn or Alec Baldwin knocks out somebody who’s putting a camera in their kids’ faces. I get that.”