{"id":641,"date":"2026-05-03T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/charlize-theron-says-her-daughters-will-have-to-earn-jobs-and-their-first-car\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:37:57","slug":"charlize-theron-says-her-daughters-will-have-to-earn-jobs-and-their-first-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/charlize-theron-says-her-daughters-will-have-to-earn-jobs-and-their-first-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron says her daughters will have to earn jobs and their first car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/newspress-collage-cpadesqjn-1777800574981.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charlize Theron is making it clear her children won\u2019t be growing up with\u00a0a Hollywood safety net.<\/p>\n<p>During a candid conversation, the Oscar-winning actress shared <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/12\/parents\/charlize-theron-takes-daughter-jackson-12-to-disneyland-in-rare-public-outing\/\">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<p>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/session-118-charlize-theron\/id1723626781?i=1000764616911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTherapuss with Jake Shane\u201d podcast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Theron emphasized that financial independence would be a non-negotiable for her kids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Charlize Theron is seen in Midtown Manhattan on April 23, 2026 in New York City. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\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<p>When asked if her daughters would have summer jobs, she didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>\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.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Oscar winner with her adopted daughters Jackson, 12, and August, 9, in March 2024. <span class=\"credit\">charlizeafrica\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The actress, who\u00a0adopted her <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/01\/27\/charlize-theron-shares-rare-photo-of-daughters-august-and-jackson\/\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/03\/entertainment\/charlize-theron-has-zero-interest-in-dating-fellow-hollywood-stars-not-a-good-thing\/\">she\u2019s described as deeply intentional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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,&#8217;\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Theron is raising her kids as a single mother, a decision she\u2019s described as deeply intentional. <span class=\"credit\">charlizeafrica\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Theron didn\u2019t hold back when describing the freedom she\u2019s found in motherhood on her own terms.<\/p>\n<p>\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?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/03\/celebrity-news\/charlize-theron-says-her-daughters-will-have-to-earn-jobs-and-their-first-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlize Theron is making it clear her children won\u2019t be growing up with\u00a0a Hollywood safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/newspress-collage-cpadesqjn-1777800574981.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}