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(L-R) Katherine Schwarzenegger, Christina Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Christopher Schwarzenegger.
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesMary Shriver learned a great sign of respect from her own mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
‘I let them stand up [when I enter a room]Maria, 69, said of her four children when she appeared on the Wednesday, January 8, episode Hoda Kotb‘S Podcast ‘Making space’. Maria shares Katherine, 35, Christina, 33, Patrick, 31, and Christopher, 27, with ex-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I used to make them. Now they just stand up,” she said.
“There are many things I emulated from my mother, but my grandmother and my mother were big on manners,” Maria continued about mother Eunice. “So, you know, when someone who was older came into the room – aka my mother – everyone stood up.”
Since Arnold Schwarzenegger burst onto the scene in the 1980s, his family has become one of the most successful – and recognizable – clans in Hollywood. Three of the Terminator star’s five children have followed in his footsteps and made a name for themselves in the entertainment industry: Katherine Schwarzenegger, a self-help and […]
When Maria became a mother, she decided to pass this on.
“I wanted my kids, you know, when I walked into the room — or their dad walked into the room, or you walked into the room — to stand up out of respect,” she told Kotb. “I didn’t want to walk across the room, and they were looking at a phone or watching the game.”
(L-R) Christina Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Katherine Schwarzenegger.
Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Global RoadMaria admitted that her children “moaned and moaned about it” at first, but have since changed their tune.
“I’d say, ‘I’m here. Here we are, and here I am. And look me in the eyes, say hello, thank me for coming, write me a thank you note when I take you somewhere.” Stuff like that,” she explained. “They now say it was a good thing.”
Maria recently spoke with her son Patrick We weekly exclusive and emphasized the importance of family in their lives.
“Family remains super important even as we get older,” Patrick told us in September 2024. “It’s fun when we bring in new people, whether it’s my fiancée, [Abby Champion]or Katherine with her husband, [Chris Pratt]or so, and so on. There are always other guests coming to dinner.”
For almost 25 years, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were a Hollywood and political power couple. The Terminator star and the journalist married in April 1986, almost nine years after they first met at a tennis tournament. After welcoming four children together, the couple announced their divorce in May 2011, amid reports of infidelity. (Schwarzenegger […]
Patrick explained that these dinners are an “open invitation” to everyone.
“It’s just a fun way to get everyone together. The world always moves so fast,” he added. “Everyone is so busy with children, work and traveling that it is a nice moment all week to relax and have everyone together.”
This was of course a tradition that Patrick learned from his mother.
“A lot of research has been done on the fact that families who eat together from a very young age do much better when it comes to saying no to drugs, no to alcohol, yes to bonding,” Maria said. Us. “If you are too busy during the week, you can at least count on that.”