Antonio Banderas is a proud dad
Antonio Banderas, who has been married for more than a decade to Melanie Griffith, educates their children that “the world is not Hollywood.”
“I don’t give them whatever they ask for. They have to earn it. I tell the kids the world is not Hollywood. I’ve taken them to Mexico and Argentina when I’ve been making movies there so they could see how kids in different countries live. They’ve seen the shanty towns. I don’t want them to think that the world is just full of beautiful cars and houses and everything you want.”
The Spanish actor is father to Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, 10, his child with Melanie and stepfather to her two other children Dakota Mayi Johnson, 17, (from her first and third husband Don Johnson) and Alexander, 21 (from actor and second husband Steven Bauer).
He is proud to say that his style of parenting is paying off with daughter Stella. Though I am not sure about Melanie’s infuence on her rumoured fascination to go for beauty surgery, which one time angered her husband, who is three years younger than the actress.
“My little baby, Stella, is a straight A-plus student. I don’t know where she came from because I wasn’t like that at all and neither was her mother.”
Antonio and Melanie met in 1995 during the shooting of “Too Much,” a story of a con man/galerist who fell in love with two sisters and pretended that he had another twin to be with them. Year after that Melanie divorced her third and first husband Don of “Miami Vice” fame.
Melanie’s famous mom Tippi Hedren also married four times.
Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Steven Bauer, Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren, Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, Dakota Mayi Johnson, Alexander Bauer
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