Even celebrity kids are ruthless when it comes to trolling their parents and these 15 celebrities are quite familiar of the burns they deal.
The parent-kid equation is a love-and-hate relationship. Some days, the love is overflowing, and there are days when it's a war of mindsets. Yet, this ever-growing bond is undeniably special and parents around the globe cherish it more than anything else in the world. Even our favorite celebrities.
From Chris Martin to Hilaria Baldwin to Dwayne Johnson, celebrity parents often find themselves sharing hilarious and relatable tales of their kids. Although their lives are as different as can be from the average individual's, their anecdotes sometimes prove to be so universal that fellow parents cannot help but scream, "Oh yeah, same."
Dwayne 'the rock' Johnson is a doting father. He often shares the cute banter he has with his daughter. A few years ago, the action star was busy teaching his then-2-year-old daughter, Jasmin Lia, how to swim when she saw it as the perfect opportunity to comment on his pecs.
He shared on Instagram, "Great to recharge the batteries this weekend, back home with all my girls and teaching this little tornado how to swim. Took my shirt off, and she said, 'Daddy, I like your brown boobies.' Thank you, baby, but daddy has pecs, not boobies." OOPS!!
Hilaria Baldwin shared how her daughter Carmen made a public announcement when she saw her mommy nearly nude. Baldwin wrote in an August 2018 Instagram story: "My daughter announced to a group of strangers today that my underwear goes up my butt. I tried to awkwardly explain that it was a thong, then I realized I should just stop speaking."
Miranda Kerr, the Australian supermodel, and entrepreneur once shared how her son Flynn with former husband Orlando Bloom was anxious to have a baby brother or sister. She recalled: "He's so excited that Evan and I had been together for a while and he was like, 'When are we going to have another baby brother or sister?' And we were like, Look, we've got to get married first. So the day after the wedding, he comes running in and he's like, 'Mommy, is it in there?' I was like, Honey, give it a minute."
Kim Kardashian has been open about her kids' rivalry. She appeared on Ellen DeGeneres Show and reported that North used to get jealous of baby Saint.
"When I was breastfeeding him, [North] was so jealous I had to get a little milk box and put it in the other bra with a straw so she would drink and he would drink. She's so jealous. It's crazy. The things you do," she shared.
Blake Lively shared how finalizing Halloween costumes came easy to her daughter James. "My daughter suggested that our youngest should be Mike Wazowski, so I thought, Great, we are all going to get to be different characters from Monsters, Inc. But then she suggested the baby be Mike and that she gets to be Cinderella," the mom-of-four shared.
"Basically, the baby gets to be the goofy animal sidekick, while our daughter gets to be the princess," Blake added, reports PEOPLE.
Chris Martin, the Coldplay frontman, got candid on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and shared an incident of visiting his daughter Apple at her job, unannounced. "She was at the checkout - and there were two checkouts - that's what you call them right? - and she saw me," he explained before mimicking Apple's shocked face and mouthing, 'Dad, get out.'
"And I felt terrible, so I moved to the other line. I was holding my T-shirt and really scared of my daughter," Martin added.
Kristen Bell once shared a serious but hilarious conversation she had with her kids. "I have been waiting for this conversation since the day I got pregnant. The one where we talk about what fingers mean when u hold them up. I [am] fidgeting because I am trying so hard not to laugh. It's excruciating," she explained.
Bell documented the conversation on her Instagram stories where her daughter is seen asking about the meaning of the middle finger. One of the girls tells her dad, Dax Shepard, that one of her classmates uses his middle finger at school. "He says this is 'f***,'" the child says in the clip. "He says that every time in school." Shepard responds, "He does? He's naughty."
The girl tells her father that her teacher said it's not a nice word, and he explains: "Yeah, that's not a nice word. You know, that's a naughty finger and I never see you do that. It makes me so proud that you know that, yet you don't do it. Well, you did it a couple of times when you were young before you knew it was a naughty word."
Willie Geist took his kids on a fun-filled adventure without his wife. But things quickly went downhill. He once shared: "Lessons learned. Let's turn it into a positive. Let's bring the wife. Let's maybe not do bowling and the mozzarella sticks on the same day as the petting zoo and the Dave & Buster's."
Jana Kramer documented her daughter and husband's little construction project in the backyard for the dog. After helping her father, Kramer's daughter decided to quench her thirst from the doggy's bowl.
"You're not a doggy," Kramer told her little girl, joking that she'll show this video to her daughter's future boyfriends.
Kelly Clarkson's anecdote proves that overall parenting is stressful and parents unknowingly make mistakes. Clarkson's daughter River once told her mom to "piss off" during her bedtime routine.
"I was like, 'I'm sorry, what? First of all, we don't hang out with British people, where did you learn that?" Clarkson recounted. "And she said 'Harry Potter,' and I said, 'Okay, well, that's Mommy's fault' - I owned it for her. I even gave her an out, you know."
Tina Fey's daughter is not easily impressed. Recounting the time when her daughter, Alice, asked her for show recommendations, Fey said: "I was like, 'Well, you're 12 now. A lot of people like '30 Rock.' So she goes to watch '30 Rock,' and she watched a couple and she came back out to me and she was like, 'It's too weird for me.'"
When James Van Der Beek asked his daughter, Annabel, what she saw as the pair stood in front of one of his billboards for What Would Diplo Do? the toddler seemed uninterested and looked away.
"Tough to impress a 3-year-old with your #WWDD billboard when it's next to one for Cars 3," he wrote on Instagram.
Zoe Saldana's twin boys are creative and naughty. Sharing how she manages her "mom guilt," Saldana said: "Sometimes when I'm getting ready to leave to go to work, they get a little anxious. They're like, 'No, Mommy, I'll put on my zapatos and I'll come with you.' And I go. You can't, Mommy has to go to work."
That's the moment they hit her with the doe eyes. "They'll go, Mommy bring toys? Which basically means, 'You get to come back if you bring me a surprise,'" the actress shared.
Molly Sims shared her "that's my kid" moment. Speaking about her little girl Scarlett never wanting to keep her clothes on, Sims recounted: "It's so funny because my mom used to say this about me, that I could never keep my clothes on."
DJ Khaled's 1-year-old son is actively involved in his father's famous career. Khaled told Jimmy Kimmel, "When we did Beyoncé and JAY-Z's song 'Shining,' he [moves his head] and goes [opens mouth]. When he does that, those are smash-hit records."
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