Dakota Johnson Loves Chris Martin’s Kids With ‘All Of Her Heart’
Dakota Johnson, who has spoken before of her complicated feelings about becoming a biological mother herself, has revealed that she loves her partner Chris Martin's two children with all of her heart.
In a new interview with Bustle, the Madame Webb star said of Apple and Moses Martin: 'I love those kids like my life depends on it. With all my heart.' She also added that she was 'open' to having children of her own if it was 'meant' to be.
When the reporter brought up the subject of a photo Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin's ex-wife and mother of his children, had posted of her and Johnson in 2023, the Fifty Shades of Grey actress said: 'I grew up in a family that was so big, and I just believe in the saying “Blood is thicker than water,"' she explained.
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'The actual saying is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” which means that the connections with people you choose are more solid than the connections to the people you’re actually born to.'
This isn't the first time Johnson has expressed her complicated feelings towards motherhood. Ahead of her starring role in the 2021 film adaptation of Elena Ferrante novel, The Lost Daughter, Johnson told The Times: 'The film makes it OK to have complicated feelings about being a mother. For somebody like me, who isn’t yet a mother and maybe doesn’t want to be a mother, it makes that OK. Complicated, but OK.'
Johnson played Nina, the young mother of a doll-obsessed daughter in the film, which also delicately touched on the subject of fertility. Speaking to the The Hollywood Reporter about the story's depiction of motherhood, Johnson said: 'Nina is struggling, she’s disappearing. To have this woman whose internal landscape is so different than what she’s projecting, that was really, really special. Because you see her, and no one is thinking about that girl’s mind. I am not a mother, but I know what it feels like to be scared or to be like, "Will I be a good mother?" But for some reason, there’s this stigma around talking about that. And there’s a stigma around having just the thought of, "What if I walked out that f*cking door? For a week or a minute for a cigarette." But you’re not supposed to say that out loud. Why? It’s so human and so relatable.'
Rumours began swirling about Johnson and Martin's relationship in December 2017, when sources told US Weekly that the pair were 'definitely dating.'
'They’ve gotten to know each other really well and are very comfortable [with] one another. It's more than just a fling', the source told the publication.
In the same month that the rumours reached fever pitch around their relationship, Johnson and Martin were pictured in Israel at a Nick Cave concert with Apple and Moses.
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