Jennifer Stallone, wife of action movie legend Sylvester Stallone, revealed her theory as to why so many children who have celebrity parents seem far more likely than other children to identify as transgender. According to Stallone, it’s all about parenting style. “Why do you think it is that so many kids in Hollywood now and kids of, you know, celebrity parents are transgender?” podcast host Katie Miller asked her.
“Is there something in the water in Hollywood?” she added. Stallone responded, “I just think Hollywood is, you know, it’s all about expression. So you know, however you want to express yourself. If you feel like a cat today, you’re a cat. And it’s so loosey-goosey. I don’t think that we’re really understanding that these kids are not our accessories.”
“They’re little human beings that need structure. And structure is really important for them because it helps their brain organize everything,” she added. The wife of the Rocky star then stated that growing up in a Hollywood home, there’s “too much of everything” and not enough direct parenting happening. “And I think growing up in a Hollywood home, there’s really no structure because you have this thing going, and you’ve got private planes,” Stallone explained.
“And you’ve got all these giant homes with chefs and secretaries and assistants and, you know, housekeepers and nannies,” she continued, according to Fox News. “And there’s just too much of everything. It gets really confusing for a little person. And it’s OK what you decide to be as an adult. But raise them just with good common sense.”
“I mean, my daughters were tomboys. They preferred to wear pants than dresses, you know. And they loved sports. But I never said, ‘Oh, you’re a boy now.’ I just said, ‘You love to play sports, you love to hang out with boys, that’s awesome,” Stallone told Miller. The Fox News report then noted that there is an ever-growing list of celebrities in the entertainment industry who have transgender children who are very vocal in their support for their kids’ identities.
The list includes big names such as Robert De Niro, Gabrielle Union, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charlize Theron, Cher and Liev Schreiber. Some of these children of famous parents revealed they were transgender later in life, while others chose to do so when they were underage. Curtis’ son, who goes by the name Ruby Guest, told Curtis and director Christopher Guest, his father, that he was coming out as transgender, noting it was a terrifying experience.
“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn’t know,” Ruby said during an interview with People. “It was intimidating — but I wasn’t worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life.” “It’s speaking a new language,” Curtis said about Ruby’s coming out. “It’s learning new terminology and words. I am new at it. I am not someone who is pretending to know much about it. And I’m going to blow it, I’m going to make mistakes. I would like to try to avoid making big mistakes.”
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