Actor Will
Smith’s son Jaden Smith not only has a reputation for donning
feminine apparel, he’s made a career out of it.
His father
Will, who first rose to fame as the goofy teen in “Fresh Prince of Belair,” has
spent much of his career playing masculine leading-man roles in action flicks.
So how does the former dabbler in Scientology feel about his son’s penchant for
more feminine clothing? BET recently asked Will what advice he had for parents
of gender fluid kids.
“What I do with
my children, that I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is
the freedom to be who they are,” he said. “Jada and I are very serious
about finding what they are, and encouraging them to be what they are because
you can never be happy being what you’re not.”
Will added that
there’s no point trying to make kids something that’s not authentic to who they
are.
“I feel like a
lot of times, when I was growing up, I would see parents force a child to be
what you want them to be,” he explained. “As a parent, if it’s an oak tree, I
want it to grow as an oak tree. I’m not gonna try to force it to be an apple
tree.”
Jade served
this year as a face of Louis Vuitton’s womenswear campaign and strutted his stuff in a skirt for Vogue Korea.
“I feel like
people are kind of confused about gender norms. I feel like people don’t really
get it,” Jaden told Nylon. “I’m not saying that I get it,
I’m just saying that I’ve never seen any distinction.”
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