Maria Shriver exposes the uneasy discussion she was required to have with her kids
Maria Shriver exposes the uneasy discussion she was required to have with her kids
Maria Shriver has actually opened openly about an unpleasant discussion she needed to have with her kids. She was speaking at The Swell’s 4th yearly Menopause Symposium on October 4 2025 in New York, which was co-hosted by star, business owner, and activist Naomi Watts and her business, Stripes Beauty. Talking with Naomi and Alisa Volkman, the 69-year-old stated: “My daughter has to be in the meno conversation as I learn from them about PCOS. [My kids] don’t want to hear me talk about sexual health but I wanted to talk to them because my mother never talked about sex with me, and the more we share, in the context of ‘we know this, we share this, and where do we want to go?’… That’s the importance of community events like this. We are all architects of change.”The mom of 4 likewise discussed how females do not require to be pitted versus each other concerning their life options. “We don’t have to be fighting between stay-at-home moms and working moms,” she stated. Maria divided from ex-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011, and their divorce was settled 10 years later on, in 2021. The set stay on great terms, just recently reuniting for a household supper at Nobu Malibu.
Arnold Schwarzenegger with his spouse Maria Shriver wave to fans May 16, 2003 in Cannes, France
It appears the previous couple reunited to commemorate their kid, Patrick Schwarzenegger’s belated birthday, who turned 32 on September 18. Patrick was signed up with at the supper by his
partner Abby Champion, sibling Katherine Schwarzenegger, and brother-in-law Chris Pratt. Arnold and Maria’s hardly ever seen kids, Christian and Christopher Schwarzenegger were likewise found at the sushi dining establishment.
Christina Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and Katherine Schwarzenegger
At the Symposium, starlet Naomi likewise weighed in on the subject of domesticity,
exposing the hopes she has for her 2 kids as they become grownups. “I have two teenagers, I have sent one off to college and he is 18 and very much in the place he wants to be, and it’s a good feeling,” she shared.
“Then I have another kid who is currently introducing herself into her profession at 16, and I wish for a lot for my kids, however many of all I desire them to be content, and healthy and kind and caring individuals.
“I believe I was parented really in a different way to how I moms and dad-the jury is out on the regards to how [my parenting] will appear-however I am not a design for how well my moms and dads did,” the Mulholland Drive star shared.
“I lost my daddy when I was young and my mum was really young … I had an unpleasant youth … however it formed who I am. I might have desired things to go in a different way, it is who I am.”
“I attempt to instill structure in their lives, have them in less schools than I went to – and I am succeeding with that – and interaction,” Naomi added. “I simply actually desire them to not be concealing things from me … that is my primary objective, and I am here for them as a support group and good example, ideally, however I never ever wish to require things. I am discovering on the task … how to be a moms and dad.”
exposing the hopes she has for her 2 kids as they become grownups. “I have two teenagers, I have sent one off to college and he is 18 and very much in the place he wants to be, and it’s a good feeling,” she shared.
