Zoe Saldana and husband keeping home gender neutral for their three sons
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Zoe Saldana and her husband, Marco Perego, are keeping their home a gender-neutral environment.
The actress wants her three sons -- twins Cy and Bowie, 4, and Zen, 2 -- to be raised in a household with both "female and male toys" so that the young boys don't grow up learning deep-rooted gender stereotypes.
The 40-year-old "Guardians of the Galaxy" star told Us Weekly, "I’m always gonna be honest and that is always the best way to welcome healthy and truthful discourse, especially around parenthood."
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"[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 added.
She called her sons blank slates and hoped that they'll learn from example as well.
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Saldana told the publication back in 2018 that Perego helps a lot with the more domestic roles typically performed by women in a household and "vice versa" for herself.
"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."
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The "Avatar" star said she knew things would be different when she met Perego, an Italian artist. "I've never met a male like my husband, who [believes] any woman is naturally his equal," she told Women's Health.
They secretly married in June 2013 after only three months of dating, and the two now often share a hyphenated last name.