{"id":389065,"date":"2026-04-20T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:41:09","slug":"charlize-theron-kids-embarrassed-by-her-crying-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389065\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron Kids Embarrassed by Her Crying, Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/charlize_theron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlize Theron<\/a>\u2019s tough exterior lies a big heart.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old has played some stony characters throughout her career, from post-apocalyptic soldier Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1413666\/biggest-oscars-movie-transformations-of-all-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serial killer Aileen Wuornos<\/a> in Monster. As a result, people often make assumptions about her personality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny because people think I\u2019m a tough b&#8212;h,\u201d Charlize told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/18\/magazine\/charlize-theron-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> in an article published April 18. \u201cA lot of people think I am very cold because I come across as self-affirmed, like I can take care of myself. I\u2019m sometimes a little brash, and people take that as, \u2018She\u2019s so tough.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In reality, \u201cit\u2019s the complete opposite\u201d because she\u2019s really a bit of a softie, much to the chagrin of her daughters Jackson, 13, and August, 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids are so embarrassed by me because I will cry at the drop of a hat,\u201d the Atomic Blonde actress admitted. \u201cI think that\u2019s why I\u2019m OK at acting. I can go to those places very easily. I have an ability to really feel deeply sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beneath Charlize Theron\u2019s tough exterior lies a big heart. The 50-year-old has played some stony characters throughout her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}