Katherine Schwarzenegger Was ‘So Embarrassed’ by Dad’s Luxury Life — She’s Raising Own Kids to Have ‘Good Values Faith’

• Katherine Schwarzenegger confessed to how embarrassed she was about her father’s fame.
• The author now emulates her parents, including her mother, Maria Shriver, when raising her two children.
• Arnold and Shriver both had incredibly close bonds with their grandchildren.

In June 2023, Katherine Schwarzenegger, 33, appeared on “The Nikki and Brie Show,” where she spoke about growing up with Arnold Schwarzenegger as her father. She recalled realizing that her upbringing wasn’t the same as most children her age.

The mother of two said she realized her life was different because Arnold would drop her off at school in a Hummer, with no windows, doors, or a roof.

The star would pull over and Katherine recalled being “mortified” hoping her father would just drop her off down the street instead. She remembers telling him:

“Please, I’m so embarrassed. Can we please just take the minivan?”

Eventually, Katherine embraced her father’s fame once her classmates started becoming cool about it, and as she got older, the boys in her grade became fascinated by him.

That new development was something different for Katherine. Now that she is a parent herself, she’s chosen to take some pages out of her father’s parenting book by imitating some things he did.

While on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” in February 2023, Katherine confessed that she wanted to raise her children the same way her parents did. For Katherine, who was raised with three other siblings — Patrick, Christina, and Christopher — it was vital to instill certain values in her children, sharing:

“For my husband [Chris Pratt] and I, it’s really important to be able to just instill that sense of family and the importance around family.”

Katherine, who shares daughter Lyla Maria, 2, and Eloise Christina, eight months, with her husband Chris Pratt, also believes in giving her children privacy while raising them to have “good values and faith.” Family is very important to her.

Katherine is also a stepmother to her actor husband’s son, Jack, 10, whom he had with his previous wife, Anna Faris.

Meanwhile, Arnold also loves being a grandfather to Katherine’s little girls who visit him often. The former Governor of California is also quite proud of how his oldest daughter is handling her motherhood.

In May 2023, Arnold, the father of five children, revealed how “nice” it was to see his children having their own offspring and enjoying the new dimension. The “FUBAR” star said seeing his children growing up, attending school, and becoming intelligent was fantastic.

He witnessed them getting their degrees and starting new jobs, and seeing them becoming parents was a delight to the celebrity. Arnold said he loves when his daughter comes over to his house with her kids or when he visits her.

Katherine mostly visits her father because he had animals in his that his grandchildren could play with. The star shared how Lyla and Eloise loved the animals, and when they visit him, they feed his pig and hang out with it.

The “Kindergarten Cop” actor also admitted he enjoys watching his grandchildren hanging out and seeing how his daughter reacts to them and how great she was to them.

Earlier this year, the “Good Night, Sister” author revealed how present and involved Arnold and Maria were in the lives of their grandchildren. The divorced parents now live minutes away from Katherine and her husband.

Pratt’s wife also noted how her journalist mother hosted weekly mommy-and-me classes for Lyla and her friends while Arnold had a miniature pony in his backyard that his grandchildren adored. Katherine said she would love to raise her children the same way her parents raised her.

The author shared how she saw a “totally different side” of her mother in her role as a grandmother to her little granddaughters.

Looking back, she realized that most of her life was kept private by her parents, and for that, she had a lot of respect for them. Her famous parents didn’t take them to red-carpet events or parade them around the public eye.

The author is keen on raising her children with the values her family instilled in her, like working hard and being good people who will leave the world a better place.

During her “Best Friend Energy” podcast interview, she spoke about her life as a mother and Maria’s relationship with her granddaughters. She said her mother has so much fun with her little girls when she’s with them.

At Lyla’s age, the pair could now go off and do their own things together. Katherine teased about how she felt like an outsider because of how they had formed their own clique where they’d go upstairs and into Maria’s bathroom to get to her vanity. Pratt’s wife revealed that soon enough, her daughter would come out with a face full of makeup!

The author shared how she saw a “totally different side” of her mother in her role as a grandmother to her little granddaughters. Arnold‘s eldest child also revealed that it was the same side of her mother that she recalled when she and her siblings were younger. Her mother constantly spoke about how that time in their lives had been the most fun.