Charlize Theron was previously under fire for the parenting of her children. Images via Instagram @charlizeafrica.
Charlize Theron under fire: From Afrikaans to her parenting!
SA-born actress Charlize Theron is under fire for saying Afrikaans is ‘unhelpful’ but her parenting was also previously under fire.
Charlize Theron was previously under fire for the parenting of her children. Images via Instagram @charlizeafrica.
South African-born actress Charlize Theron has come under fire for her comments on Afrikaans being “unhelpful” on an episode of the SmartLess podcast on 14 November – but she has also previously been under fire for her parenting skills.
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CHARLIZE THERON UNDER FIRE FOR COMMENTS ON AFRIKAANS
Actress Charlize Theron divided Mzansi with her controversial opinion about the Afrikaans language in South Africa (SA). She claimed that only about 44 people speak the language in South Africa going on to say it is “unhelpful” and a “dying language” – on an episode of SmartLess podcast.
“There’s about 44 people still speaking Afrikaans. It’s definitely a dying language; it’s not a very helpful language,” she said.
“I didn’t really speak English until I was 19, though. I found it easy to drop my South African accent, because I learned English from scratch,” she continued.
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THE ACTRESS PREVIOUSLY UNDER FIRE FOR PARENTING
Charlize has two children – Jackson and August. She adopted Jackson from SA and August from the US. Jackson is transgender, born a boy. Back in 2017, Charlize was criticised for allowing Jackson to dress as a girl. She set tongues wagging when photos of Jackson dressed as Elsa from Disney’s Frozen surfaced.
Some praised the actress but others slammed her for “degrading” him. The Fate of the Furious star later revealed that she has been raising Jackson as a girl.
- “Yes, I thought she was a boy, too. Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy! So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” she said according to Daily Mail.
“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide. My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,” she continued.
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