As anyone who follows Chris Hemsworth’s wife Elsa Patacky on Instagram knows, the Aussie actor is nailing the role of dad.
The Hemsworth-Patacky brood is now at three, and for the most part it seems like things are going pretty smoothly for the growing family.
“They get along, absolutely,” Hemsworth told Ellen of his four-year-old daughter India and his two-year-old twin boys Tristan and Sasha.
“Well, at times,” he clarified. Apparently, little India is a little “envious” of her baby brothers.
Source: Instagram
"She came to me the other day and she was like, ‘ya know, papa, I want one of those things that Sasha and Tristan have," Hemsworth said.
"I'm like, 'what do you mean?' She was like, 'ya know, the things in between the legs that you have.'
"And then my brain's like, eerrrrrr how do we handle this, you know?"
Somewhat flummoxed he gave explaining-gender-in-terms-a-four-year-old-might-grasp a go, but sadly hit a wall when he suggested India might grow breasts instead.
"I don’t want breasts," she said, clearly unimpressed. "She goes, 'I really want one.' I'm like, 'A penis?' And she's like, 'I want a penis!'"
Anyway, his eventual response was as perfect as you might expect.
"I was like ... 'Ya know what, you can be whatever you want to be.' And she goes, 'Thanks, dad!' runs off to the playground and that was it."
You can watch the clip in full here:
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There's an expression, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
Studies of happiness, in all classes of society from poverty-stricken Somalians to wage earners in Indian call centres to middle-management execs in the USA and beyond - have shown that our general sense of happiness, more than most other things once our most basic needs of food, shelter and contact have been met, is heavily tied into our perceptions of what we have, compared to what others around us have.
We devalue our own possessions, skills, traits and prospects, and inflate the value of those we see in others, which we don't have. That's just part of our psychology, part of who and what we are, and it's both a blessing and a curse. It provides drive and motivation to better our lot, and self-improve.. But it also promotes a lot of negative thoughts and behaviours.
I'm with Jarrah - glad this wasn't blown out of proportion. Parents can really be their kids' worst enemy when it comes to issues like this, whether they fall on the side of unhealthy obsession with making their child 'special', or on the side of ignoring actual signs of gender dysphoria.
Sounds like Mr. Hemsworth picked the perfect spot in the middle, of self-determination :)
I'm guessing plenty of little girls say stuff like that, (the whole novelty of being able to pee without having to sit, or whatever), so it's good that he's pretty relaxed about it, even if I'm not sure why it had to become public knowledge. To be honest, after seeing the headline, I'm relieved that no-one is trying to claim there's more to it than just a kid saying kid stuff ...