Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mark Wahlberg Says He Grew Up When He Became a Dad

Mark Wahlberg used to be known as a Hollywood party boy with a misguided youth and the kind of entourage a show was built around. Now a proven A-list actor with an Oscar nomination to his credit, the thing he's most proud of is his family with girlfriend model, Rhea Durham.

OK magazine features Mark in this weeks Quick Chat. Here's an excerpt:

How would you rate yourself as a father?
Maybe an 8 or a 9. Wirth work it's hard becase I don't want to drag my kids [Ella, 3, and Michael, 1] from location to location. I don't get to spend as much time with them as I would like to right now, so that's obviously my priority. It needs to be the children and not the work.

Do you find any truth in the adage "A man is not a man until he has a daughter"?
I certainly thought I had it all figured out, but to appreciate women, to make the effot to understand them and give them the resepct they deserve you need to have a daughter.

What would you like your kids to inherit from you?
Values, morals, discipline, a love of the Lord, and everything I can ever make in my lifetime is goint to my children.

Are you any good at changing diapers?
I've changed some diapers and done some baths! We tuck in and we read, but Mommy is doing more of the diaper duty and the bathing, that's for sure. Let's not try to take any credit away from how great a job Mommy is doing, but, ye, I have done both.

Do you remember the moment when you first felt like a man?
Well, originally I thought I was a man the day they locked the jail door on me, but it was probably when I had my first child. Whether I wanted to be or not, I was a man and I needed to assume full responsibility for this living, breathing, beautiful little thing.

Source: OK Magazine

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:39 PM

    If you're so concerned about morals and values and the Lord, Mark, why don't you marry Rhea and make her an honest woman. Haha! Just thought that was funny.

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  2. Yeah, for real!! He'll never marry this chick! He would've married her in the beginning when she had the first kid! I can bet you that he'll never marry this broad, Rhea!! He'll wind up dumping her gold diggin ass and marrying a normal woman who has better morals and values than Rhea has, which SHE does not have! Sooner or later, Mark will stop lying about wanting to marry her and eventually maybe he'll really tell the press what's up with him! Who knows, but that's my two cents worth, take it or leave, my friend! I've seen pics of them together and he really shows no affection towards her and if you read or see him in interviews, it's like he has memorized what he's saying. It's all the same! Basically, all of it doesn't add up!! I bet the truth will come out soon ;)

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  3. Anonymous2:31 PM

    What a joke!! the real truth will come out eventually, Mark!!!

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