{"id":233989,"date":"2025-10-18T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:24:10","slug":"ben-stillers-kids-on-difficult-relationship-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233989\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller&#8217;s Kids on Difficult Relationship: Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI feel like I have a really great relationship with my kids,\u201d he shared, \u201cbut it\u2019s complicated and has at times been strained. When they were young, I did not get it. I thought, \u2018Oh, the kids are young, I can work away and be a good dad earning for the family.\u2019 But the bonds you form with your kids when they\u2019re young are so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And his relationship with his kids was further strained when he and Christine decided to split in 2017\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1423436\/ben-stiller-christine-taylor-secret-to-marriage-after-reuniting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">although the two reconciled<\/a> after living together during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad about what us breaking up did to the kids,\u201d he confessed, \u201cbut it was possibly the best thing to happen to Christine and me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben added that the decision \u201cchanged our relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t take it for granted any more,\u201d he continued, \u201cand if you are happy, you\u2019re going to be a better parent. You have hurdles and try to figure it out, and if you stay, all you can do is acknowledge the past and try to repair. That\u2019s what we have in our family. It\u2019s not perfect\u2014at all. But that\u2019s just life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a look back at Ben, Christine and their children over the years, keep reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like I have a really great relationship with my kids,\u201d he shared, \u201cbut it\u2019s complicated and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-233989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}