Charlize Theron joined the queens at the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 premiere, the place she published how the contestants impressed her parenting taste.
“I want [my kids] to grow up in a world where they know what it means to accept what’s not you, what is different and love that, to not be scared of that, and to embrace it, and that’s my job as a mom,” Theron, 48, stated all the way through Drag Race’s “Untucked” aftershow on Friday, January 5. “I feel like we’re living in a day and age where our words can so easily be weaponized against us.”
She persevered, “I worry about us as people and what we can do to each other, and how powerful it is when you love and how powerful it is when you hate. One destroys and one builds.”
The actress is a mom of 2. She followed daughter Jackson in 2012, 3 years earlier than adopting more youthful daughter August.
“[I hope] to be like my mom. Fair, tough, and supportive,” Theron advised British Trend in a 2015 profile, noting she “always” sought after to have a circle of relatives. “Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.”
Theron has since made certain to show Jackson and August their very own abilities to develop as people.
“A big thing for me is kindness,” she advised Us Weekly and different journalists in October 2019. “We kind of live by our religion, which [says], ‘Do unto others the way you want to be done to you.’ We’re big on respect and thinking about others before we think about ourselves.”
Respecting others is among the causes that Theron signed directly to visitor pass judgement on Drag Race.
“Given the climate in our country right now, there’s a lot of energy being put toward your community not existing,” Theron advised the contestants within the episode, regarding anti-drag regulation being drafted around the nation. “I truly believe that all of that is coming from a place of fear. The beauty of what your community brings and the truth of who you are and represent will come out. Don’t give up.”
Theron has lengthy been a vocal best friend of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood, particularly relating to her youngsters.
“My daughter’s story is really her story, and one day, if she chooses, she’ll tell her story,” she up to now advised Satisfaction Supply in December 2019 when requested about Jackson popping out as transgender. “I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.”
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 airs on MTV Fridays at 8 p.m. ET