Thandie Newton has a unique approach to explaining sex to her children
Ah, the birds and the bees conversation – it’s difficult to decide on how to approach it, but the way you’d least expect it to begin is: “Daddy has a beautiful penis…”
But for Thandie Newton, that’s exactly how it went. While some of us might struggle to utter the word ‘penis’ or ‘vagina’ in front of our children, Newton’s method is very much no-holds-barred.
In an interview with The Edit, Newton recalled having ‘the sex talk’ with her now 16-year-old daughter Ripley a few years ago.
“I said, ‘Daddy has a beautiful penis, which enters Mama, and these two precious parts of us join together’,” she explained.
And luckily, she told her just in time.
“A few days later, Ripley came home from school, saying, ‘Mummy, I had to tell Don he was wrong today,” Newton continued.
“‘Don said sex is when a man makes his willy go really hard and then beats the woman with it’ …Lucky I got to her first.”
On a more serious note, sex itself isn’t the only thing that Newton has revealed to her kids – to both Ripley and her son Nico (aged 12), she recently opened up about being “taken advantage of” aged 16 by a much older director.
“I told them that the first time I ever had any sexual encounter, it was abuse,” she said.
“Eventually, my 12-year-old stopped me and said, ‘Mum, don’t worry. I am way cooler than you were at my age.’”
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