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- Aug 10, 2011
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Katherine Schwarzenegger
Katherine Schwarzenegger, the 21-year-old daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, has opened up about her parent’s painful split, in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
Understandably, as a daughter to two VERY famous people (who are recently going through a messy divorce), Katherine says she had thoughts about changing her identity by way of a name change when she went to college.
She explains to the magazine, “I thought of changing it because, especially for dating, it’s impossible. It’s something I deal with every day, and I am hyperconscious about it.”
Katherine brought up that when she got to college, guys would come up to her and immediately start a conversation about her father and weight lifting or “how to do a proper bicep curl.” She says, “It’s like, ‘Do you want to date my father, or do you want to date me?’”
During the interview, Katherine also disclosed that although she is close to both her parents, the relationships are very different from each other. She says, “I’ve always been way closer to my mom,” and adding that even now she talks to her mom “about six times a day, and we constantly e-mail in between that.”
Katherine goes on to mention that luckily, her parents were successful in keeping her and her three siblings out of the spotlight growing up, even saying they “always really sheltered” them, but the couple’s recent separation and scandal that followed changed that quickly.
“When [the separation] started happening, it was like everything came of nowhere overnight,” she said. “I would go out to lunch, and literally 20 people would come and scream at me. And I’m like ‘This is so inappropriate; you’re trying to provoke me to have an attack and say something crazy.’”
Regardless, Katherine seems to have a pretty good attitude and a positive outlook on life. She acknowledges that even though “a lot of the time, it’s hard to understand in the moment why things are happening,” she still believes that “everything happens for a reason.”
I couldn’t agree more.
