‘Right now, I feel really good’: Charlize Theron told her kids she doesn’t need a boyfriend
Charlize Theron is happily dating herself.
The 44-year-old actress, appearing on the podcast InCharge with DVF, Diane Von Furstenberg’s podcast, shared a discussion she had with daughters Jackson, eight, and August, four, about her love life, telling them how she’s dating herself.
‘Two days ago I was in the car with my two girls and my little one said something like, “You need a boyfriend,”‘ the Oscar-winning Monster star said. ‘And I said, “Actually, I don’t. Right now, I feel really good.”
The latest: Charlize Theron, 44, told the podcast InCharge with DVF , Diane Von Furstenberg’s podcast, shared a discussion she had with daughters Jackson, eight, and August, four, about her love life, telling that how she’s happily dating herself
‘And she’s like, “You know what, mom? You just need a boyfriend, you need a relationship!”‘
The South African actress said after she said she’s dating herself, August ‘had this look in her eye like she had never really contemplated that that was even a possibility.’
The Atomic Blonde actress added, ‘Her mind was blown; but, I know that was the day that she realized there’s a different possibility.’
Theron adopted Jackson in 2012 and August in 2015; she and also opened up about she had always wanted to adopt children, and the thought and technical process in doing so.
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Theron said the process began when she ‘was leaving a relationship, a long, almost 10-year relationship,’ purportedly with actor Stuart Townsend.
‘In the last couple of years of that relationship, I really wanted to become a mother, and it didn’t happen,’ she said. ‘And so when the relationship ended, I think it was, like, the next morning, I wanted to file for adoption.
‘So I found an adoption lawyer here in Los Angeles, and I filed not only domestically but also internationally.’
She opened up on being ‘the mom to two African American girls’ and ‘the mom to an African American trans girl’ in Jackson.
‘All of these things have kind of made me more aware of how little I know,’ she said. ‘My children have completely reopened my eyes to the world.
‘And I jokingly always say, “I’m back at university. I’m back having to learn every single day, because they challenge me in that way.”