Matt Damon’s Best Fatherhood Quotes While Raising Daughters Alexia, Isabella, Gia and Stella
14.04.2023 - 00:39
/ usmagazine.com
Bourne for this life! Matt Damon loves being a girl dad — and was happy to be thrown into the role when he became stepdad to wife Luciana Barroso’s daughter Alexia.
“I jumped into the deep end with [my wife]. I mean, Alexia was already 4 [when we met]. I was an extra dad,” he told Parade in December 2011. “The only way I can describe it – it sounds stupid, but at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full. It’s just full all the time.” (The Argentina native shares Alexia with ex-husband Arbello Barroso.)
The Oscar winner met the interior designer when she was a single mother working at a bar in Miami in 2003. Damon, who was shooting a movie in town at the time, was recognized by fans in the club and “hid behind” Luciana’s bar when the crowd got aggressive.
“He says, ‘Oh, I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you,’” Luciana told Vogue in 2018. “So I put him to work with me! I said, ‘You know, if you’re going to be back here, you can’t just be standing there!’ He had trained as a bartender for a film years before, so he started making drinks. And he made me a ton of money in tips that night because of course everyone wanted to go and see him. It turned into a really fun night. Then 15 years later here we are!”
The pair went on to tie the knot in 2005 after two years of dating. Daughters Isabella, Gia and Stella, arrived in 2006, 2008, and 2010, respectively.
In December 2012, the Good Will Hunting star opened up about how it feels to be a dad to four daughters.
“I never expected to be surrounded by girls, but it’s great. … You never know which way life’s going to take you,” he gushed to Today . “I’m learning so much, not the