Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has revealed she’s happy to start dating again but she doesn’t want a traditional relationship because she doesn’t think she could ever live with a partner again.
Charlize Theron doesn’t think she could ever live with a partner again.
The 50-year-old Monster actress – who is mother to two daughters Jackson and August – has revealed her kids are happy for her to be dating and they enjoy pressing their mother for details but Charlize can’t see herself embracing a traditional relationship again in the future.
During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, she explained: “My kids are at an age now where they actually enjoy that I’m dating because they want to be involved. It’s really funny how I was scared they’d be threatened by it, and now they’re like: ‘Mom, is he texting you? Like, go on the date, mom’.”
She went on to add: “I really mean this – people think I joke – I don’t think I could ever live with somebody again. I would love for you to be close, like buy the house down the street, but I don’t know if I can.”
However, Charlize – who previously dated Stuart Townsend and Sean Penn – admitted she may change her mind about living arrangements once her two girls have left home. She said: “Maybe it’s because I still have my daughters in the house, and maybe that will change when I’m an empty nester, but I’m looking for something very specific.”
Charlize adopted Jackson in 2012 and August, who is now 11, three years later.
The Oscar-winner previously admitted she always saw herself adopting children because of her upbringing in South Africa.
She told PEOPLE: “Even when I was in relationships, I was always honest with my partners, that adoption was how my family would look one day.
“This was definitely not a second option for me. It was always my first.”
She also explained how race factors into raising her girls in the US in an interview with Elle magazine, saying: “Being raised during the apartheid era in South Africa made me so hyperaware of equality and human rights.
“Of course, I have two black kids, but that was always something I was passionate about. I don’t even know how to talk about the last year under our new administration.
“But racism is much more alive and well than people thought. We can’t deny it anymore. We have to be vocal. There are places in this country where, if I got a job, I wouldn’t take it. I wouldn’t travel with my kids to some parts of America, and that’s really problematic.”
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