On the big screen, he’s Thor, but in real life, he’s a super Dad. Aussie hotness Chris Hemsworth recently opened up about fatherhood to the Australian media and paints a refreshingly honest picture of family life, warts and all.
The 32-year-old actor, recently named one of Australia’s “Most Intriguing People” of 2015 (along with Rebel Wilson) and his wife, Spanish model and actress Elsa Pataky, 39, seem to be building their own team of mini-Avengers with daughter India Rose, 3, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, 19 months. With three toddlers, only one of whom has made it through the “terrible twos,” Chris has been able to roll with the ups and (considerable) downs of raising a family. Chris told Australia’s Daily Life he feels like he’s got twice as many kids and in a recent interview revealed:
They’re non-stop, active kids. The biggest thing I’ve learned by having kids is that now I know what love is. I know what frustration is. I know the full gamut of emotions, good and bad. I feel I had just scratched the surface prior.
[From Us Weekly]
Chris also admitted that he fell even harder for his lovely wife Elsa, whmo he met in 2009 and married in 2010, after she went from wife to mother. He recently told Australia’s Who magazine, “Watching her be a mother made me fall even more in love with her. She certainly keeps me sane. I complain about things, she gets on with it.”
Like many of his Australian counterparts, Chris has decided to raise his family in the land down under, living under the radar in the beach community of Byron Bay instead of opting for a beachfront mansion in Hollywood. He likes the perks of living in a community where paparazzi aren’t lurking behind every palm tree and there aren’t busloads of camera-wielding tourists hoping for a celebrity sighting.
It’s refreshing to hear a celebrity Dad talk about parenthood in a realistic light, and it’s great to hear that it has strengthened his relationship with his wife. One piece of advice – maybe he should avoid getting a nanny, especially if Chris and Elsa have got the parenting thing under control by themselves.
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Most intriguing per…hahahahahaha! Sorry, I mean he seems nice. Intriguing? Yeah…no.
His new movie looks decent but I have a feeling it is going to bomb. Hard. No one seems excited, no award buzz, and one week before Star Wars? What were they thinking?? Not good for his non-Marvel career.
Well, one thing those kids won’t be, is plain. Quite a DNA windfall in that department. But if there’s anything Hemsworth isn’t, it’s intriguing. Dull as dishwater, and every time he tries stepping outside Marvel, he bombs. And as for how in love he is with Elsa, that doesn’t seem to stop the rumors about how he entertains himself while far from home.
Meh, the rumours have to be wishful thinking. It’s been said on Celebitchy before–Aussie guys (like Chris and Hugh Jackman) seem to mate for life. This Helmsworth seems super happy to just be a husband and a dad. (And I think his brother Liam would have been too, if Miley hadn’t gone off the rails.)
Well nobody said he’s going to divorce. There are enough whispers to make you wonder (about Jackman too). Some spouses choose not to demand fidelity, arrangements can be made and I guess that’s their choice.
Oh and Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, and Paul Hogan (among many others) just called to piss all over this Aussies “mate for life” theory. 😉
Unfortunately, it seems that Miley had some wishes of her own (even if some looked similar to going ‘off the rails’) and the relationship cracked. Anyway, their dynamic was nowhere similar to that of Chris and his wife’s.
I love to see happy families but every time I hear these people saying how they chose to raise their families in their native countries, like Australia, I wonder about their partners that are foreigners. One partner feels effortlessly at home and the other just has to struggle to adjust.
And you really can’t object against your partner’s home country or city – it would be taken so personally!
And what if you want to raise your child differently than how the locals do it (a different religion or a different school system)? Would your voice be heard after you already accepted the move?
Als, I think most partners would be understanding if you wanted to do things differently, or wanted to go live in your own country at some point. I think a lot of people who marry a foreigner do so because they think it is interesting. My husband has different takes on things, teaches the kids different nursery rhymes, etc. but, he knows I would never go live where he is from, (I’ve told him point blank before we got married) and he doesn’t want to live there either. He left for a reason. We do travel a lot, and have lived other places, and we have taken turns being in our dream place. I think if you have an honest and strong relationship being from different countries just adds to life’s excitement, rather than really causing any problems. If anything I’m usually chiding my husband because he swore he would speak his language when home with our kids, and I wanted them to be bilingual….. But he forgets, and they only speak a few words.
So, I usually read articles without looking at who wrote them. Halfway through this one I knew it had to be the new guy/gal. It was really rosy. Ha.
Right? I knew after the first sentence, I never notice who writes the article.
That makes more sense! I didn’t check to see who wrote it, but I did do a double take to see whether there was a mistake and they had forgotten to put the overly-flattering-tabloid-write up in gray like normal. The tone was VERY different than usual.
Who’s Corey?! Hi, hello!! 🙂
I get what he is saying, my daughter just turned three, just out if diapers but still holding on to the pacifier. I can only imagine what it’s like to have three toddlers, holy moly.
Just wait until you three teenagers, bud. You have NO idea what is waiting for you!
my kids have been the most joyous and the most aggravating thing that ever happened to me. Some days I feel so blessed and so happy, some days I feel like banging my head against a brick wall.
Ill be honest if I knew how much blood sweat and tears it would have taken to raise kids I would have given it a lot more thought and consideration.
I feel it’s my job is to raise kind, loving and humble people in a nurturing and loving environment I do my very best everyday to accomplish that.
He and Liam are sooooo “everyday” Aussie guys. You can find these guys everywhere at the footy or rugby, at bars, walking down the street. Fit, nice, easygoing, pretty nice looking (but not hunkalicious like HW loves to describe Aussie blokes) but not terribly interesting to talk to. I think it’s ’cause they encapsulate that Ocker masculinity so well. Guarantee you can find similar guys just walking down the street in a major Aussie city. Having said that, I’m glad they’re doing well. Seem like nice blokes and their background sounds interesting. They were raised partly in the Outback and I remember Chris talking about some Aboriginal elder healing his dad.
Yes the australian actor from House (forgetting his name) seems totally like that too.