Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has talked about why her children are not allowed to use social media in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
She shared that they have no social media rule for her two children, Leo, 10, and Lena, 8, with her actor husband, Javier Bardem, saying, "I have a strange relationship with social media where I use very little of it in a very careful way."
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The 47-year-old actress and mother of two added:
“There is something that is not making sense, and it is 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 with them. ‘ Oh, let’s see what happens if you expose a 12- year old to that much technology. The lack of protection that it is for a 12 year old to be involved in social media, any form of social media, there’s no protection for them, for their brains that are still developing and how that affects the way they see themselves, everything like related to bullying. So many things that are not the childhood that we had.”
She insisted that her children are not allowed to have social media accounts at all, saying, "I'm very tough with technology, for example with my kids… It's like, yeah, we're going to watch movies sometimes or some cartoons. How can I not let them watch movies? That has been like some incredible moments of happiness since I was a little girl. But no phones until they are much older and no social media until at least 16. I really see that that is like, protecting mental health, but I seem to be a part of the minority. I don't know."
Penelope Cruz Married Life With Husband Javier Bardem
The actress Penelope Cruz met her husband, Javier Bardem, while filming the 1992 film Jamon; Jamon reunited in the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008. They publicized their relationship in 2007 and secretly tied the knot in 2010.
They welcomed their first child, son Leo in 2011 and their daughter, Lena, in 2013.
The couple has grown a lot from the on and off screen life, and her husband, Javier, had shared:
“Everything is different once you’re a family. That is the priority, as it should be. We’re no exception from that. We work as hard as we can, but we recognize how hard we can work depends on each other’s needs. It’s important not to be confused by fiction. Fiction is fiction, reality is its own thing.”
He added:
"We've worked together many times over they years, we met when I was 21 and she was 16 – you tend to confuse one for the other, or mix them. Now I'm going to be 50 in a few weeks and I don't do this anymore. She's the same way. You must always know when you're working on a level of recreation, outside of real life. Penelope and I, we have to protect us."
Her husband, Javier Bardem, is an accomplished actor having more than 60 acting credits in films like Skyfall, Eat Pray Love, No Country for Old Men, Loving Pablo, The Roads not Taken, and many more.
He has won many awards like an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, two SAG Awards, and a Goya Award, equivalent to Oscars.
Net Worth And House Tour
According to Celebrity Net Worth, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has an estimated net worth of $75 million. Her husband has an estimated net worth of $30 million as he is also an accomplished actor.
The charismatic Spanish actress Penelope has starred in many famous films. TV shows like Jamon, Jamon, Belle Epoque, Carne Tremula, Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health, Live Flesh, Open Your Eyes, The Hi-Lo Country, Don Juan, The Girl Of Your Dreams, All About My Mother, Woman On Top, All The Pretty Horses, Vanilla Sky, Heads in the Clouds, Bandidas, To Rome With Love, A Matador's Mistress, Venuto al Mondo, and many others.
She has won several awards for her acting like the Empire Award, Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and was presented a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
The Spanish actress Penelope Cruz bought a home in Beverly Hills from Roseanne alum Sara Gilbert for $3.3 million. The house was 2,538 squares and had four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
She has put her Los Angeles house featuring Thai and Balinese-inspired design and a beautiful hardwood floor for sale at just under $3.5 million.