Update: Catherine Zeta-Jones talks about being 'Dame Doom'
Update: Additional quotations added.
Originally posted July 12th: Catherine Zeta-Jones says in the upcoming issue of Parade that she has been given the nickname ‘Dame Doom‘ by her children with Michael Douglas — Dylan, 6 and Carys, 4 — because she’s constantly assuming the worst when it comes to their safety.
I’m Dame Doom. Dylan and Carys make fun of me because I worry when they’re climbing or jumping outside. I always think something could happen to them. My kids know when I raise my finger or do ‘the eyes’ that I mean it.
Catherine’s protectiveness over her children extends to sheltering them from thesometimes overbearing spotlight of Hollywood. Although she and herhusband are both famous and fortunate enough to have four homes, theWelsh actress says she prefers to spend most of her time raising herkids at the couple’s home in Bermuda.
I’ve been told that it’s not good for business, but atthe end of the day, I’d sacrifice career so my children can go toschool without paparazzi pestering them.
Michael — who famous wooed Catherine with the opening line ‘I want to father your children‘ — made good on the pick-up line, at Catherine’s insistence. According to the Welsh actress, several months into their relationship she pressed the issue, telling Michael that she "cannot live without having children."
I thought, for one minute, that he was going to say ‘I already have a son, Cameron,’ and then I would have had to say goodbye … And he went ‘me too’…I’m crazy in love with my husband. I love my children adore just watching them grow and change.
Cameron is Michael’s 28-year-old son from his marriage to Diandra Luker.
Source: Life Style Extra; Parade, July 15, 2007, pg. 4-5
