Zoe Saldaña is making sure her sons get in touch with their feminine sides.
The “Avatar: The Way of Water” star revealed Tuesday that she and her husband, Marco Perego-Saldaña, plan to defy gender norms by raising their three boys to “honor themselves, their femininity [and] to celebrate their feminine self as well.”
“We’re very hard on our boys the same way we’re hard on women,” she explained in an interview with People.
“And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions. And then once you learn to do that so much for so long, you become completely excommunicated from your feelings.
“We definitely understood the assignments and accepted it knowing that we were raising boys during a time when women’s movements are so important.”
The couple, who celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary earlier this year, share 8-year-old twin sons, Cy and Bowie, plus 6-year-old son, Zen.
According to Zoe, her three children are learning that genders don’t have roles through watching their parents lead by example.
“We are here to set very big tones for them in life on how to be, how to react, how to regulate, how to repair, how to heal, how to stand up for yourself,” the actress, 45, told the outlet.
“So they’re going to be constantly mirroring what you do, knowing that you’re being observed at all times. It definitely makes you a lot more mindful than you have ever been in your whole entire life.”
The “Guardians of the Galaxy” star, who recently debuted a tattoo of her husband’s face, previously opened up about her desire to create a gender-fluid household while speaking to People in June 2018.
“When you look at parenting, the whole thing about matriarchy and patriarchy, and Daddy’s little girl and Mama’s boys — my husband and I find that completely ludicrous and absolutely unhealthy for the upbringing of a child,” Zoe said.
“You’re giving them a very distorted and limited view on what a female role is supposed to be in a family and what a male role is supposed to be.”
To combat such conditioning, the A-lister and her husband alternate roles in their household.
“Certain seasons, I’m the one that may be taking over all of the domestic operations so that my husband can mentally break away and focus on his creativity. And other seasons when I go completely back into work mode, then we’re switching off,” Zoe added.
