Katherine Schwarzenegger Finally Opens Up About Arnold And Maria's Separation
Posted on Tue Aug 9th, 2011 4:50pm PDT By X17 Staff
Katherine Schwarzenegger is opening up about her famous parents' separation.Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's oldest daughter, 21, admitted to Harper's Bazaar that though the split has been hard, she's been taking comfort in her family. Katherine told the mag:
- "I really do believe everything happens for a reason. A lot of the time, it's hard to understand in the moment why things are happening, but I really do think that. I also like to think God doesn't really give you anything you can't handle."
Arnold and Maria tried very hard to keep their four kids - Katherine, Christina, 19, Patrick, 17, and Christopher, 13 - out of the spotlight, and that's helped their eldest in dealing with the public's perception of the family. Katherine says:
- "My parents always really sheltered us, so when [the separation] started happening, it was like everything came out of nowhere overnight. I would go out to lunch, and literally 20 people would come and scream at me. And I'm like, This is so inappropriate; you're trying to provoke me to have an attack and say something crazy."
Find out what Katherine had to say about staying away from reading the headlines ... after the jump.
Katherine's also trying very hard not to read any headlines, admitting:
- "I see them, but I choose not to read the stories because I figure whether it's true or not, I don't need to. I just focus on my family and everyone being okay instead of following the gossip."
She said she wanted to change her name when she went off to college - a thought that came well before the news of her father's infidelity. She added:
- "I thought of changing it because, especially for dating, it's impossible. It's something I deal with every day, and I am hyperconscious about it. When I got to college, people — much more guys than girls because girls don't give a crap about bodybuilding — were coming up to me, and it would automatically jump to a conversation about my dad and weight lifting or how to do a proper bicep curl. It's like, 'Do you want to date my father, or do you want to date me? Like, I can arrange that for you.'"
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