Charlize Theron is opening up about the experience of being a single mom.
Charlize joined Alex Cooper on the Wednesday, July 2 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast to promote her film The Old Guard 2.
The actress discussed being a single mom to her daughters, August, 9, and Jackson, 12, and dubbed it “one of the healthiest decisions I ever made.”
“With women, it’s always like, something must be wrong with her. She can’t keep a man, and it’s never part of the discussion of like, ‘Wow. She’s really living her truth,’ ” The Italian Job actress shared.
She added, “I look at them and just be like, ‘Do you know how f—— great it is to live exactly how I want to live, to experience motherhood exactly how I wanted to experience it?'”
“I know the next thing they say is like, ‘Well, that’s not fair on your kids.’ Can I tell you something? That will be their story to tell,” the 49-year-old continued.
Charlize noted that her kids may have an opinion on being raised by a single parent, but also that she loves not having to share them with someone.
“I can only tell you that this is the best way that I know how to be a mother to them, and maybe they’ll grow up and tell their story, and I will respect that,” she noted.
“I just know that this was the only way that I knew I could do it, and my f—— god do I love every single day of it. I love that I don’t have to share them with somebody,” she confessed.
“I love that I don’t have to run every f—— thing by a guy. I don’t. I love that I don’t well, oh my god. Co-parent. I like I f—— love that I don’t have to do any of that stuff,” she added.
“I broke the cycle,” she declared.
Charlize Theron became a mother in 2012 when she adopted Jackson. She welcomed her younger daughter, August, through adoption in 2015.
