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Mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Son Tells Story

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Posted on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 12:39:18 PM EST
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In less weighty news, Mildred Baena, Arnold Schwarzenegger's former housekeeper and mother of their child together,has decided to tell her story and share a photo of 13 year old Joseph. She says Joseph was told a year ago that Arnold was his father. His response was, "Cool."

She hopes Arnold and Maria can patch things up.

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    Mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Son Tells Story | 41 comments (41 topical)

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    Wouldn't it be better mothering to (5.00 / 4) (#1)
    by oculus on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:11:20 PM EST
    let the boy decide if and when to publicly discuss his parentage?

    One would think so, (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Zorba on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:34:20 PM EST
    but maybe she discussed this with him beforehand.  

    Parent
    But he's a child (5.00 / 0) (#4)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:48:18 PM EST
    How can a child understand all the possible implications of your 15 minutes of fame?  And perhaps I worry too much.  All people handle all different sorts of adversity and exposure in their life differently.

    Parent
    I think he had to be told the truth (5.00 / 2) (#16)
    by Madeline on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 05:37:31 PM EST
    maybe not all the details but children don't like to be lied too and.......they will remember your lie forever.

    Parent
    This is true (none / 0) (#10)
    by Zorba on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:24:09 PM EST
    Thirteen's a bit too young to make truly informed decisions.  

    Parent
    And how big of her (5.00 / 7) (#3)
    by jbindc on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:40:19 PM EST
    To be concerned about their marriage ...

    Parent
    Yeah. Nice touch. (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by ruffian on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:34:43 PM EST


    Parent
    This story was cash loaded (none / 0) (#5)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:49:10 PM EST
    until that God Damned Weiner.

    Parent
    Exactly (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by jbindc on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:53:19 PM EST
    Her 15 minutes are slipping away

    Parent
    How much did the Enquirer pay for (none / 0) (#7)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:54:42 PM EST
    John Edwards clues and commentary :)?  I bet she's upset :)

    Parent
    Did you see his mug shot? (none / 0) (#19)
    by nycstray on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:45:04 PM EST


    Parent
    In a stunning turn of events (none / 0) (#17)
    by CoralGables on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 05:58:38 PM EST
    Gloria Allred opted for New York seeing the potential for more of an extended 15 minutes there.

    Parent
    When did she jump in the picture? (none / 0) (#18)
    by nycstray on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:44:24 PM EST
    I looked up and she was on my teevee screen with another woman (sound off). I did get a chuckle out of it :)

    Parent
    She opted (none / 0) (#20)
    by CoralGables on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:49:17 PM EST
    for Weiner's porn star sexting pal

    Parent
    What's the beef? (none / 0) (#21)
    by nycstray on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:50:51 PM EST
    I thought that was all on the up n' up, so to speak . . . ?

    Parent
    It's Gloria (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by CoralGables on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:23:25 PM EST
    your guess is as good as mine. Maybe she needs a chapter in her next book.

    Parent
    Pretty Sure.. (none / 0) (#8)
    by ScottW714 on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 01:57:45 PM EST
    .. you would hard pressed to find a teenage boy who would not want the world to know his dad was Arnold.

    Parent
    Hey me too!! (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by Gerald USN Ret on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:37:55 PM EST
    I dream of Arnold for a father, and Angelina for a mother.

    I would re-up as a SEAL!

    Parent

    Let me clarify- (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by Gerald USN Ret on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 10:20:18 AM EST
    What I mean by having Arnold and Angelina Jolie as parents is that I wish my dad and my mom had been real life action heroes.  That would have been in the kid's parlance "neat."

    I can state with unequivocal and unabashed certainty that my mom is not only prettier than Angelina, which is really really saying something, but she never bummed around with a scumbag like Billy Bob Thornton and a vial of blood either.  

    That said, it would haven been really something to have a dad who was a Arnold type "super COMMANDO" and a mother who was a really powerful water demon like Angelina was in Beowulf, or even super Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.

    My own thought about the new Arnold kid is that he might not have known who his dad was, and to all of a sudden have Arnold come into his personal orbit is really something.

    Besides Arnold's other sons drive HUMMERS!

    Hey, talk, about instant STATUS at grade school!

    What did the the old comic book heroes and sports casters say? "HOLY COW!"


    Parent

    Oh, really. Guess I'd best not ask (none / 0) (#9)
    by oculus on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 02:03:21 PM EST
    my 13-yr. old male tutoree this question at tonight's open house.  

    Parent
    I'm trying very hard to stay out of (5.00 / 2) (#22)
    by oculus on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:52:20 PM EST
    what he learns or thinks about sex ed.  But, he did ask me recently how old I was when I got married and I sd. almost 22.  He sd., my mom was 15.  Giving me an opening to mention it is a lot easier to make it through college unmarried and w/o kids.  He says he wants to go to Harvard.

    Parent
    His mom was 15! (none / 0) (#29)
    by lilburro on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 09:44:52 AM EST
    What??

    Parent
    This was in Mexico, I would guess. (none / 0) (#35)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 11:48:00 AM EST


    Parent
    Or Georgia, Mississippi, ... (none / 0) (#36)
    by Yman on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 12:16:38 PM EST
    ... Missouri ... some require parental consent - a few others with judicial approval.

    Stranger yet, last I looked it was age 17 for males and 15 for females in Mississippi.  Surprised that hasn't been challenged.

    Parent

    I believe oculus's tutoree is 1st gen American (none / 0) (#37)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 01:29:09 PM EST
    of Mexican descent. Could be wrong though, hard to remember the bios of all the TL'rs...

    Parent
    Correct. Parents completed 3rd (none / 0) (#38)
    by oculus on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 01:30:36 PM EST
    grade in rural Mexico.  Mother doesn't speak English.  Father does.  Kids are all bilingual.  

    Parent
    I think that (none / 0) (#14)
    by Zorba on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 04:00:48 PM EST
    most teenage boys now have very little, if any, idea who Arnold is or was.  There may be some 30+-year-olds who loved The Terminator when they were kids, and wouldn't mind claiming Arnold as their dad, but I doubt that most 13-year-olds would.  Remember that this kid's mom worked for Arnold, so the kid would have grown up knowing Arnold and who he was.

    Parent
    As the parent of 12 and 9 y/o boys, (none / 0) (#15)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 04:08:34 PM EST
    with more than a few same approximate aged nephews across the country, I would say most/all of them know who Schwarzenegger is.

    Parent
    But, do you think they would welcome their (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by oculus on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 07:53:12 PM EST
    mothers telling the world their dad is Arnold?  

    Parent
    Also . . . (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by nycstray on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:02:09 PM EST
    did this kid think someone else was his dad? And what did she say, she wasn't sure until he started looking like the spittin' image of Arnold?! :/

    Parent
    I think any time you mess around with children... (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by Dadler on Wed Jun 15, 2011 at 08:03:46 PM EST
    ...and their healthy, normal development (which, I have to say, I think this does) is set them up for a lot of psychological trouble later, when they are old enough to genuinely understand how screwed up the circumstances of their birth were.  Speaking for myself only, of course, but as the product of a May-December affair between visiting professor and student.  Perhaps, though, my two cents are not worth even that with the inflation of personal "experience."

    Parent
    Agreed, but... (none / 0) (#28)
    by ScottW714 on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 09:11:07 AM EST
    ... how many people have the luxury of normalcy.  The older I get the more I realize, pretty much everyone is screwed up emotionally at some level.

    I wasn't defending the choice, just noting the teenager probably didn't have an issue with it.  Like the teenage boys who have inappropriate relations with a teacher, sure they probably like the attention, but in the long run it can't be healthy.

    Parent

    Normalcy for a child is.... (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by Dadler on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 03:01:46 PM EST
    ...love, safety, nurturing, consistency of each.

    I don't think it's nurturing for a child to lie to them for many years about who their father is/was.  

    With Arnold's money, however, I'm sure he will be physically safe and nurtured plenty, the rest, well, only time and the quality of adults in his life will tell.

    Parent

    And what is normalcy? (none / 0) (#30)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 09:47:46 AM EST
    A childhood with too heavy a dose of normalcy can screw ya up too...adversity builds character, within reason.

    I'm with you, we're all screwed up to some degree...whaddya gonna do, we're a screwed up species.

    Parent

    We're all screwed up to some degree, IMO... (none / 0) (#41)
    by Dadler on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 03:05:37 PM EST
    ...is a generalization used to keep us a safe distance from emotions we don't want to touch, feel or have anything to do with, because they frighten us far too much.

    Just not a statement, for me, that is filled with much meaning.

    Parent

    Fair enough... (none / 0) (#42)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 03:22:35 PM EST
    What I was trying to say was everybody has emotional issues, we are emotional beings...those who claim not to have any probably have the most...just buried deep.  

    I wasn't trying to minimize severe emotional trauma, especially in childhood.  

    Parent

    I know you weren't trying to minimize (none / 0) (#43)
    by Dadler on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 03:35:01 PM EST
    Sorry, Dog.  For whatever reason, that phrase really rubs me the wrong way, you had no way to know I had this prejudice.  ;-)

    Have a great day, my man.  I'm gettin' over a monstrous sinus infection that has me in a very sh*tty mood.  Got some congestion in the soul I think, too.  Just a mess.  Kinda like the NL West.

    Parent

    I could have guessed... (none / 0) (#44)
    by kdog on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 04:00:21 PM EST
    you've shared many times on the subject.

    Gracious but a totally unnecessary apology...now blow your nose and get the Vicks for your sinuses, and maybe a blank page and a keyboard  for the soul congestion???

    Feel better soul brother.

    Parent

    Well, they have a pretty great father so, no. (none / 0) (#34)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 11:47:14 AM EST


    Parent
    Now Congress can get down to (5.00 / 2) (#33)
    by observed on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 10:21:50 AM EST
    serious business, like giving away more money to the rich.
    You and the Entire Planet Got it Right (none / 0) (#39)
    by ScottW714 on Thu Jun 16, 2011 at 01:30:50 PM EST


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