Hugh Jackman frightened by how much he loves his children

Hugh Jackman frightened by how much he loves his children

Hugh Jackman is frightened by how much he loves his children.
The 40-year-old actor – who has two adopted kids, eight-year-old Oscar and
three-year-old Ava, with wife Deborra-Lee Furness – was terrified about
starting a family, but quickly realised the love you have for your children
is more powerful than anything.
He said: “Having kids is not so much a risk as a surrender, kind of like,
‘OK, I’m jumping into the rapids.’ ”
Hugh – who can currently be seen starring alongside Nicole Kidman in new
movie ‘Australia’ – also revealed he sometimes finds it hard to leave his
children when he starts shooting a film.
He said: “It’s frightening how in love with them you are. It’s hard to go
away, hard to do things like this. You have those little flashes of them
jumping into a road and you stop breathing.”
Hugh’s family has always kept him grounded – even when he was crowned People
magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
He told Men’s Journal magazine: “Everything is exposed with kids. There’s no
artifice, because they see you for exactly what you are. You can’t pretend.
“Actors can fool people about the kind of person they are. You can wear
whatever mask you want to put on. But it doesn’t work with kids, you know?
You see things get out of whack, out of balance, because they just mirror it
back to you.”