Charlize Theron celebrated her 45th birthday with a virtual party of some of her closest family and friends, but there were two extra special guests she personally shared with: her daughters!
Theron gave fans a rare glimpse of her daughters Jackson, Aug. 8, and Aug. 5, in a screenshot of her birthday party, which she shared on Instagram. Theron was pictured laughing with her daughters in the bottom right.
“My first virtual birthday party … I think my mom fell asleep 5 mins. Thank you everyone for the wishes of the bday!” she wrote. “2020 has been rough, but today was for a bright spot for sure.”
Ever since she adopted both children, Theron has loved keeping her own life private. That is, even on their social media accounts, glimpses of their daughters are not many and far between.
This photo marks only the third time that Theron has offered fans a look at their children. The last time she shared a snap of her girls was August 2019, and in that pic, her daughter’s face was hidden from view.
The mother of two recently opened until Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist about her biggest challenge as a parent during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I would say the biggest challenge for me is just homeschooling,” she said. “It was an incredibly stressful time for me, and I will make every action movie over and over and over before I get home again.”
While the Oscar winner has had more time to spend at home in recent months, she was also busy teaching her black daughters about systematic racism and empowering them to use their voices to bring about change. nobody.
“There’s a sense of innocence. Like, her innocence, you know, there’s a little bit of her innocence that was there before that is not there now,” Theron said. “But in a strange way, I see how it empowers her … and that’s a good thing.”
South Africa’s countrymen added that one of their daughters is “more sensitive” to what is happening in society, while the other is more “proactive”.
“We make signs. We have signs in the car, like, she’s that kid,” she said. “I try to make them just do it on their own time.”
Recently, it turned out that the “Bombshell” star knew at a young age that she wanted to grow her family through adoption.
‘My mother has a letter I wrote to her when I was 8 years old. In the letter, I ask her if we can go to an orphanage before Christmas and adopt a brother or sister for me, ‘she told Diana von Furstenberg on her podcast.
When Theron became a parent of Jackson in 2012, her mother, Gerda Maritz, remembered the note.
Theron reminds him, ‘She’s like,’ You never asked me to have another baby. You never asked me to have a little brother or sister for you. You just left after adoption. ‘”
During a performance on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ in June, she revealed that she “had never been lonely” and called Jackson and August “the great loves” of their lives.
