Mark Wahlberg Opens Up About Fatherhood
It’s nice to hear big time Hollywood stars talking about their family. Mark Wahlberg – who’s currently on the big screen in Contraband – opens up about fatherhood in the February issue of Men’s Journal.
Mark and his wife Rhea Durham have four kids under the age of ten! Ella Wahlberg is 8, Michael Wahlberg is 5, Brendan Wahlberg is 3 and little Grace Wahlberg is just two years old.
The former underwear model admits he used to live a pretty wild existence before the kids came along. So when he grew up he lost some friends ‘Yeah, a lot of people I thought were my friends were disappointed that I decided to settle down and don’t take them on whirlwind tours of craziness anymore. If they were my friends, they would have been happy for me changing my life and growing up‘.
His definition of a ‘wild time’ in 2012 is a lot different ‘these days it’s a big, wild Halloween party or Easter egg party. I don’t go out at night anymore. I don’t hang around with the guys. I don’t really play golf. I stopped smoking cigarettes. I stopped smoking pot a lot of years ago, too. I’m focused on my family, my faith, and my work.’
So with two daughters there will come a time when they start dating ‘I’m not going to think about that right now. When the time comes, I will, but it’s not a good thought for me to have. Thinking about it really stresses me out, so don’t stress me out right now, because that’s a stressful thought, OK?’ No worries Mark. With your eldest daughter aged 8 you have a few years to come to terms with the idea.
Fatherhood is certainly better than attacking an immigrant with a meat hook and taking out an eye, right, Markie?
Has anyone seen ‘Contraband’? For a ‘father’ to use the language that his children will one day see and hear, I don’t understand his ‘faith’. I believe he is a remarkable actor, and that is why I chose to attempt to see Contraband. However, it didn’t take long for me to walk out of that theatre when the language got so offensive. I also read that he was in the process of getting all his tatoos taken off. Again, as a father, how can a tatoo be more offensive to his children or his faith than the language he used in the movie.
I know.. some of you will have much to say.. ‘here we go again… another faith based person bashing someone’. No, in the contrary, I am questioning his ‘changes’ for the sake of his family, mainly his children. In time, they probably will begin to use the same language… and then what will his response be..? ‘Oh, that was just part of the acting..!’
One last thing… if you didn’t see Contraband and hear the language, please don’t waste your time answering to this blog.
My thought isn’t “oh, someone who is faith-based criticizing someone else” although that is pretty funny. It’s “who is this person and why are they so uptight?” By the time his kids see Contraband, I’m sure they’ll be old enough to understand that’s how daddy was able to financially support them growing up and has nothing to do with his character, hence ‘acting’. Personally I think that his relationship with God or whoever he believes in is his alone and you have no right to question how devout or not he is.
Now this is my ideal guy!
A celebrity who gives his gives his kids normal names? ZOMG!