Charlize Theron is making it clear that her kids will not develop up with a Hollywood security web.
Throughout a candid dialog, the Oscar winner shared her strategy to parenting, revealing that she plans to instill independence and a powerful work ethic in her daughters from a younger age.
“Initially, your first automobile goes to be a Datsun as a result of you are going to crash it,” Theron bluntly stated on the “Therapuss with Jake Shane” podcast.
“You are going to screw it up a method or one other. You are a brand new driver. So we’re not going to get the great automobile up entrance. We want some expertise and we will earn it.”
Theron burdened that monetary independence can be non-negotiable for her kids.
“It’s too early to say the place they’re going to finish up… They only have to discover a job that pays them as a result of I don’t wish to help them for the remainder of their lives,” she stated.
When requested if her daughters would have summer time jobs, she did not hesitate.
“Yeah. Each time we go to Starbucks, I am like, ‘Take a look at this… Do you see how pleasant it’s? You need to be this pleasant each morning at 6 a.m., like begin getting ready for it.'”
The actress, who adopted daughters Jackson, 12, in 2012 and August 9, in 2015, has lengthy been open to the thought of elevating her kids as a single mom, a choice she has described as deeply intentional.
In a July 2025 interview with Alex Cooper on the favored podcast “Name Her Daddy,” Theron referred to as her alternative “one of many healthiest selections I’ve ever made.”
“With girls, it is all the time like there’s one thing unsuitable together with her. She will’t maintain a person, and it is by no means a part of the ‘Wow. She’s actually dwelling her fact,'” she stated.
Theron did not shrink back from describing the liberty she present in motherhood on her personal phrases.
“I have a look at them and I simply assume, ‘Have you learnt how nice it’s to reside precisely the best way I wish to reside, to expertise motherhood precisely the best way I needed to expertise it?'”
She added that she “loves[s] that I don’t have to take care of each f—— by a man” or take care of co-parenting challenges, noting that she looks like she’s “damaged the cycle.”