Australian actress Teresa Palmer has written about her young son’s love of his long blond hair and ‘gender fluid outfits’ in a candid blog post.
The 31-year-old Hollywood star – who is mum to Bodhi, three, and Forest, eight months – wrote a piece on her parenting blog Your Zen Mama where she discussed the issue of gender.
‘Bodhi is often called a girl, maybe it’s the long hair, the gender fluid outfits he chooses, his long eyelashes and gorgeous big blue eyes or maybe it’s his spirit and his divine feminine energy?’ she wrote.
Australian actress Teresa Palmer (pictured with her sons) wrote a piece on her parenting blog Your Zen Mama where she discussed the issue of gender
‘Bodhi is often called a girl, maybe it’s the long hair, the gender fluid outfits he chooses, his long eyelashes and gorgeous big blue eyes or maybe it’s his spirit and his divine feminine energy?’ she wrote (pictured is her little boy)
But she said her son will ‘very quickly correct’ someone who calls him a girl by saying he is a ‘big brother not a big sister’.
‘Bodhi loves his long hair and won’t let anyone cut it, he loves wearing pink and blue, he loves playing with trucks and applying makeup on me, he loves to sing and dance and race cars, shoot lasers/guns/blasters,’ the actress continued.
‘He also loves dolls houses and playing princess dress ups (to which an unnamed older-than-I family member asked if he might be gay because of it!? WTF who knows/who cares?)
In her candid blog post, the actress revealed that an unnamed family member had asked if her son was gay, because he likes dolls houses and playing princess dress ups
‘I don’t define Bodhi or my other sons by their gender, I just love them as the beautiful soulful and adventurous children that they are,’ she wrote.
The actress went on to praise the ‘beautifully progressive and loving world we live in’ where people can ‘both fight for gender equality and embrace the idea of not being defined by our sexual organs’.
‘This is the reason why I remind myself that the commentary on the gender of my children is outdated, silly and can be disregarded,’ she wrote.
‘I don’t define Bodhi or my other sons by their gender, I just love them as the beautiful soulful and adventurous children that they are,’ she wrote (she is pictured here during a breastfeeding break at the Golden Globes)
‘The focus shouldn’t be on whether our kids are a boy or girl but what kind of person they are,’ the mum-of-two wrote
‘The focus shouldn’t be on whether our kids are a boy or girl but what kind of person they are.’
Previously, the actress has opened up about how her ‘main priority’ was to become a mother and how parenthood allowed her to experience the meaning of ‘profound love’.
‘It’s so fulfilling being able to do what I love in my work, but my main priority and what has always been my dream has been to be a mum,’ Teresa told Whimn.
Previously, the actress has opened up about how her ‘main priority’ was to become a mother and how parenthood allowed her to experience the meaning of ‘profound love’
‘It’s so fulfilling being able to do what I love in my work, but my main priority and what has always been my dream has been to be a mum,’ Teresa has said previously
‘People tell us all the time: “Why don’t you and your husband fly business and get a babysitter to fly economy with the kids?” And I’m like: “No I want to be together, they’re my children”.
‘That’s why I have Forest in interviews with me. That’s why I change his nappy here. He’s my child. I’m not just going to palm him off to someone else.’
Teresa has enjoyed huge career success, both via her role in the Oscar-nominated film, Hacksaw Ridge, and her lead turn in Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome.
But she said that success arrived when she learned to let go.
‘[Success] just arrived when I let go of the controls and the obsession surrounding my career and I said, “I don’t really care as much”,’ she added.