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Zoe Saldana has revealed snippets of her personal life, specifically how she raises her three sons with husband Marco Perego Saldana.

The Avengers actress, who plays Gamora in Guardians Of The Galaxy, shares four-year-old twins Cy and Bowie with Marco, as well as two-year-old Zen.

She opened up about how she raises her little boys, revealing that she was attempting to keep her household a "gender-neutal environment" with male and female inspirations involved in their lives.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"I’m always gonna be honest and that is always the best way to welcome healthy and truthful discourse, especially around parenthood," the actress told Us Weekly this week.

"The twins made a comment two weeks ago like, “Boys are stronger than girls,” because they’re in that stage of comparisons. And you have to take a moment and kind of put together an answer that they will understand," she continued.

She wants her boys to be a "blank slate", rather than being influenced by gender stereotypes before choosing their own identities.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Her aim is, "To not bring all this charge that you have as an adult and as a woman into their lives." She opened up last June about allowing her sons to pick their own method of doing things, with Zoe leading by example with her partner.

"We have a very gender-neutral environment where my husband participates in a lot of tasks that were normally given to women and vice versa," she previously told Us Weekly. "I get to do a lot of male things, which is, I don’t know, put the TV together, fix things that break," she said.

"We’re sort of a very gender-fluid household. I think it’s important to raise boys in that environment, and girls as well," the 40-year-old mused.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Zoe has often done things in an unconventional way, shunning 'tradition', such as her husband Marco taking her surname when they wed in 2013.

Saying he liked the name, Zoe recently added:

"He wanted to really represent being a part of my family and represent my father’s legacy. He respected the fact that he didn’t want me to have to give up my name just because that’s the norm."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Saldana was interviewed by People in 2018 and touched upon the idea of gender and parenting;

“When you look at parenting, the whole thing about matriarchy and patriarchy, and Daddy’s little girl and Mama’s boys ― my husband and I find that completely ludicrous and absolutely unhealthy for the upbringing of a child."

“You’re giving them a very distorted and limited view on what a female role is supposed to be in a family and what a male role is supposed to be."

Feature image: HuffPost

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Congratulations are in order for Zoe Saldana and husband Marco Perego who have welcomed their third child.

The Guardians of the Galaxy actress and her artist husband, Marco are already parents to twin boys, and decided to include them in their adorable announcement.

 

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The actress took to Instagram to share the good news with fans saying:

“Marco and I are elated to share the news of the birth of our son, Zen.

“We couldn’t feel more blessed with the new addition to our family," the 38-year-old said.

Zoe has previously spoken about life as a parent to her twin boys, Bowie and Cy, calling it a ‘handful’.

The news of baby number three will come as a surprise to many as it is assumed the pair welcomed Zen via surrogacy.

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Zoe Saldana has been making a name for herself as one of the most in-demand women in Hollywood.

She has a jam-packed schedule ahead of her, with the filming of movies such as Star Trek 3, the Avatar sequels and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Midst her busy workload, the 37-year-old has two beautiful twin boys whom she gave birth to just seven months ago. But Zoe has revealed some of the difficulties of being a mother and working in Hollywood.

“Let me tell you something, it will never be the right time for anybody in your life that you get pregnant,” the Star Trek star explained to USA Today.

“The productions I was slated to work on sort of had a panic. I heard through the grapevine there was even a conversation of me being written off of one of the projects.”

While the star thankfully didn’t lose out on any roles because of her pregnancy, she has had a really tough time getting the studios to bring in child care.

Ms Saldana is livid because of the discrepancy that occurs between the benefits for male and female actors.

She claims that studios “spend more money sometimes ‘perking’ up male superstars in a movie,” paying for their private jets, assistants and extravagant lifestyles, whereas she has to fight just to get childcare.

“But then a woman comes in going, ‘OK, I have a child. You’re taking me away from my home. You’re taking my children away from their home. And you’re going to make me work a lot more hours than I usually would if I was home. Therefore, I would have to pay for this nanny for more hours – so I kind of need that.”

To which Ms Saldana said the studios reply with, “Nope, we don’t pay for nannies.”

It is certainly clear that stereotypical gender roles do not play a big part in the Saldana household. When the actress married her husband, Marco Perego, in 2013, he took her last name.

 

 

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When Zoe tried to talk him out of the decision because she felt he would be emasculated, he simply replied, “Ah Zoe, I don’t give a s**t.”

We love him already! 

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Has Zoe Saldana found the perfect man? Definitely!

Actress Zoe has been speaking of her husband Marco’s decision to take her surname upon their marriage – rather than the other way around.

Oh, and did we mention he is really really ridiculously good-looking?

The Guardians Of The Galaxy star sits beaming on the cover of the July issue of InStyle magazine, in which she reveals how Italian artist Marco Perego took her name after the two secretly married back in the summer of 2013.

Zoe explained that she even tried to talk him out of taking her name, despite being "proud" of him.

She stated: "I tried to talk him out of it. I told him: 'If you use my name, you’re going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world,'" she told InStyle.

"But Marco looks up at me and says [she puts on a cute Italian accent]: 'Ah, Zoe, I don’t give a sheet'.”

Ms Saldana recently posted a Facebook status about her husband's decision to take her name, urging men to defy gender stereotypes.

"Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

"I’ve been made aware that a comment I made regarding my marriage has garnered some attention. I felt proud that my husband decided to take my last name as his own… and I his.

"Why is it so surprising, shocking, eventful that a man would take his wife's surname? Women have never been asked if its OK for them to give up their names – why doesn’t that make the news?

"Men, you will not cease to exist by taking your partner’s surname. On the contrary — you’ll be remembered as a man who stood by change. I know our sons will respect and admire their father more because their father lead by example."

The couple had twins boys back in November 2014, and Saldana has furthermore spoken about the challenges and changes that motherhood brings.

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Britney Spears was on Entertainment Tonight last night when she was asked if she and her Crossroads co-star Zoe Saldana would do another film together. Without thinking, Britney replied:

“Who knows? That’s a very good idea. But she’s pregnant with twins right now. So I'm sure she's got a huge future ahead of her.”

Though it was rumoured that Zoe was expecting twins, the actress hadn’t yet confirmed the news herself – and now she doesn’t have to, so at least that’s one thing of her to-do list!

We didn’t realise that the two stars were still friends, though Zoe did rush to Britney’s defence when an un-edited track of her song Alien was leaked. She spoke about Britney on a talk show, saying:

“She was the one big, big celebrity that I met when I was starting to work in Hollywood who literally was humble.

“I do believe that people and children gravitate to good energy, and she's definitely an abundance of that.

“I'm pretty sure that 80 per cent of our musical artists would be mortified if they were caught singing without auto-tune.”

Awh, that’s nice. Though she didn’t exactly stress that Britney CAN actually sing, she was just warming up her voice so some such excuse, so maybe this was Britney’s payback! 

 

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Zoe Saldana’s pregnancy may have sparked some concern for Avatar fans as she is meant to be filming the sequel where she reprises her role as alien warrior Neytiri, and how is she meant to do that with a baby bump?!

However, director James Cameron said that it won’t affect the filming schedule at all:

“The beauty of doing the performance capture is that she can be as big as a house and it doesn't really matter.

“She might have some physical limitations running around through the jungle, but we can get around all that stuff, because we're not photographing her, we're 'capturing' her.”

Besides, Cameron says that Zoe may well have given birth before filming starts: “The way the writing and preproduction is working out, we probably won't start until the first quarter of next year anyway.”

 

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It’s double the joy for this Hollywood actress who is said to be expecting twins!

Zoe confirmed her pregnancy just yesterday through her rep, but E! have now reported that multiple sources have confirmed the actress is expecting twins.

Such lovely news for Zoe and her husband, Marco Prego on their happy and exciting baby news! 

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Zoe Saldana finally puts an end to all of those rumours and has confirmed, through her publicist that she’s expecting her first child.

Her rep says that Zoe and her husband Marco Perego will welcome their first child later this year.

Rumours started that the actress might be expecting, when she was spotted with what looked like a baby bump at the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The actress spoke previously of how she would love to have children with Marco.

"Or four or five! I don't care. They're just so delicious. I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself. I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them. I get them. They make perfect sense to me. A child makes perfect sense to me. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time."

Congratulations to the happy couple!

 

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Zoe Saldana has sparked rumours that she is pregnant with her first baby after the premiere for Guardians of the Galaxy.

Photos of the actress at the premiere, and indeed over the last few weeks, have led to many believing she is expecting.

Zoe married husband, Marco Prego in June last year, and is yet to confirm any pregnancy.

What do you think – could the actress be expecting her first child? 

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Star Trek star, Zoe Saldana has opened up about married life, as well as some of the lessons she’s learnt from love in the latest issue of Marie Claire.

Zoe who secretly married her partner Marco Perego in England last year said the decision made perfect sense to her.

"I don't do the ABCs. I do what my heart says, what my heart feels. So from the moment I met my husband, we were together. We knew."

The 36-year-old then went on to share some lessons that she’s learnt from past relationships, and says when it comes to love, you should never settle.

“Not to settle. If you’re not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.”

Without naming names, Zoe reveals for good reasons why she doesn’t keep in touch with her exes!

“I have been in relationships where a man has disrespected me, and I don’t need to be friends with that man anymore. I don’t want to be the one going, ‘I’m cool, because I’m friends with all my exes.’ There’s a reason why you’re called an ex. I crossed you off my list. Moving on. You cross a line, you need to know that you’re going to walk this earth knowing that there’s an individual who has no respect for you.”

Makes sense to us, we think Zoe should become our relationship guru from now on!

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Star Trek star, Zoe Saldana has opened up about married life, as well as some of the lessons she’s learnt from love in the latest issue of Marie Claire.

Zoe who secretly married her partner Marco Perego in England last year said the decision made perfect sense to her.

"I don't do the ABCs. I do what my heart says, what my heart feels. So from the moment I met my husband, we were together. We knew."

The 36-year-old then went on to share some lessons that she’s learnt from past relationships, and says when it comes to love, you should never settle.

“Not to settle. If you’re not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.”

Without naming names, Zoe reveals for good reasons why she doesn’t keep in touch with her exes!

“I have been in relationships where a man has disrespected me, and I don’t need to be friends with that man anymore. I don’t want to be the one going, ‘I’m cool, because I’m friends with all my exes.’ There’s a reason why you’re called an ex. I crossed you off my list. Moving on. You cross a line, you need to know that you’re going to walk this earth knowing that there’s an individual who has no respect for you.”

Makes sense to us, we think Zoe should become our relationship guru from now on!

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