Penelope Cruz reveals why her children don’t have their own cell phones

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Penelope Cruz has shared some uncommon perception into her household life, with the actor revealing why her two children don’t have their own cell phones.

The 49-year-old actor spoke candidly about her parenting habits throughout a current interview with Elle, as she appeared on the quilt of the journal’s February problem. Cruz and her husband of almost 14 years, Javier Bardem, are presently elevating two children collectively: Leo, 12, and Luna, 10.

Speaking to Elle, Cruz revealed that, along with having zero social media accounts, her children additionally “don’t even have phones”. She specified why she desires her children to keep away from utilizing know-how, as they’re within the midst of rising up.

“It’s so easy to be manipulated, especially if you have a brain that is still forming,” she stated. “And who pays the price? Not us, not our generation, who, maybe at 25, learned how a BlackBerry worked. It’s a cruel experiment on children, on teenagers.”

The Ferrari star then added that her children don’t essentially want social media to be entertained, since their father does some amusing impressions of fellow celebrities.

“He sings and he’s a great dancer. And he does this amazing impression of Mick Jagger,” Cruz added. “He’ll imitate Al Pacino and De Niro talking to each other. It’s incredible.”

She additionally opened up about maintaining her children out of the general public eye, with Elle noting that she refused to substantiate or deny in the event that they’re contemplating careers within the leisure trade, like their mom. Cruz acknowledged that as her children become older, it’s their alternative in the event that they wish to publicly focus on their careers or not.

“It’s for them to decide if they are going to have a job that is more exposed to the public or not,” she stated. “They can talk about that when they’re ready.”

This isn’t the primary time that the Pirates of the Caribbean star has shared her ideas about her children utilizing the web. During an look on CBS Mornings in 2021, Cruz first opened up about her “strange relationship with social media,” and her perception that completely different on-line platforms can negatively have an effect on youngsters.

“I use very little of it in a very careful way,” she stated. “There is something that is not making sense and it’s especially affecting younger generations. I feel really bad for the ones that are teenagers now. It’s almost like if the world was doing some kind of experiment on them. ‘Oh, let’s see what happens if you expose a 12-year-old to that much technology.’”

She then acknowledged that she’s “very tough with technology” utilization for her children, earlier than describing the factors the place they use digital gadgets collectively.

“We can watch movies sometimes or some cartoons. How can I not let them watch movies?” she stated. “That has been some incredible moments of happiness since I was a little girl.”

Cruz additionally expressed that she’s not permitting her children to have phones “until they are much older,” earlier than including: “No social media until at least 16.”

Elsewhere in her interview with Elle, she additionally opened up about working with her pal, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, noting that he “always saw [her] as a mother”.

“We have known each other since I was 17. He would watch me going to talk to strangers just to see their babies. He always saw that strong, inevitable instinct in me, and I saw him see it,” she stated.

The Vanilla Sky star then acknowledged that regardless of her pal’s reward, she nonetheless knew from when she was younger that she needed to have children.

“But also, ever since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted kids. But I knew I wanted them older. I wanted to wait until I felt I was ready,” Cruz defined. “I was sure it would be the most important thing I would do in my life.”