Charlize Theron is making it clear her children won\u2019t be growing up with\u00a0a Hollywood safety net.<\/p>\n
During a candid conversation, the Oscar-winning actress shared her approach to\u00a0parenting<\/a>, revealing she plans to instill independence and a strong work ethic in her daughters from an early age.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, your first car is going to be a Datsun because you\u2019re going to crash it,\u201d Theron said bluntly on the \u201cTherapuss with Jake Shane\u201d podcast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to f\u2014 it up somehow. You\u2019re a new driver. So, we\u2019re not getting, like, the nice car up front. We need a little bit of experience, and we\u2019re going to earn it.\u201d<\/p>\n Theron emphasized that financial independence would be a non-negotiable for her kids.<\/p>\n Charlize Theron is seen in Midtown Manhattan on April 23, 2026 in New York City. GC Images<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s too soon to kind of say where they\u2019re going to end up \u2026 They just need to get a job that pays them because I\u00a0don\u2019t want to support them\u00a0for the rest of life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n When asked if her daughters would have summer jobs, she didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah. Every time we go to Starbucks, I\u2019m like, \u2018Look at this \u2026 Do you see how friendly? You have to be that friendly every morning at 6 a.m., like start getting ready for it.’\u201d<\/p>\n The Oscar winner with her adopted daughters Jackson, 12, and August, 9, in March 2024. charlizeafrica\/Instagram<\/p>\n The actress, who\u00a0adopted her daughters Jackson, 12, in 2012 and August, 9<\/a>, in 2015, has long been open about raising her children as a single mother, a decision she\u2019s described as deeply intentional<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a July 2025\u00a0interview with Alex Cooper\u00a0on the popular podcast \u201cCall Her Daddy,\u201d Theron called her choice \u201cone of the healthiest decisions I ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith women, it\u2019s always, like, something must be wrong with her. She can\u2019t keep a man, and it\u2019s never part of the discussion of like, \u2018Wow. She\u2019s really living her truth,’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Theron is raising her kids as a single mother, a decision she\u2019s described as deeply intentional. charlizeafrica\/Instagram<\/p>\n Theron didn\u2019t hold back when describing the freedom she\u2019s found in motherhood on her own terms.<\/p>\n \u201cI look at them and just be like, \u2018Do you know how f\u2014ing great it is to live exactly how I want to live, to experience motherhood exactly how I wanted to experience it?’\u201d<\/p>\n She added that she \u201clove[s] that I don\u2019t have to run every f\u2014\u2014 thing by a guy\u201d or deal with co-parenting challenges, noting that she feels she has \u201cbroke the cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron is making it clear her children won\u2019t be growing up with\u00a0a Hollywood safety net. During a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":770435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,185,9477,172,18981,171,14107,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-770434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-children","11":"tag-celebrity-news","12":"tag-charlize-theron","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116510751034433607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}