Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about being an awesome dad on Jimmy Kimmel Live. SIA reports with reference to foreign media that the 76-year-old actor has four children. Catherine, Christina, Patrick and Christopher – born to his ex-wife Maria Shriver. In addition, he also has an illegitimate son named Joseph Baena from a housekeeper.
“I think I was soft. But by American standards I was tough,” Arnold said.
According to Schwarzenegger, he taught his children to be independent from an early age: “I told the children that they had to make their own beds. They had to clean their own bathrooms, their own toilets, their own laundry. One day I walked in and the bed was so perfectly made that I looked at my son and said, ” Patrick, did you do this?’ He said, ‘No, I couldn’t.’ He opened the doors and threw the mattress off the balcony into the pool. Then Patrick had to lift the pillow and blanket up himself.”
A similar incident happened with her daughter Catherine, who did not put her shoes in place twice. The angry actor threw the girl’s shoes into the oven. “This is how I raised my children,” the actor added.
Arnold Schwarzenegger married Maria Shriver, the niece of the 35th President of the United States, in 1986, about 9 years after they first met. Although they separated in 2011, the divorce process was officially completed only in 2021.
Their 25-year marriage fell apart after it was revealed that the actor fathered an illegitimate son with his housekeeper, Mildred Baena. He was born on October 2, 1997, just days after Maria Shriver gave birth to their fourth child, Christopher.
