Most parents will never have to deal with many of the issues that Dax and his wife Kristen Bell have to deal with.
When the couple’s daughters became involved in a local community theater group — which ironically was putting on a rendition of the Disney movie Frozen — they felt they had to explain to their children, not to tell other kids about how their mother is actually Princess Anna from the Frozen franchise.
“I had to tell my daughters, I’m like, you cannot tell anyone in this thing that your mom is Princess Anna,” Shepard said in conversation with Justin Timberlake during a recent episode of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast. “I know you’re proud, and you should be able to say that, but I’m just warning you that will probably make other kids jealous and they won’t know how to handle that feeling.”
Bell, who voiced Princess Anna in both of the Disney Frozen films, and Shepard, have kept their kids offline and are raising them out of the public eye. And part of their parenting process is to raise their daughters as though they don’t have famous parents (one of whom voiced the most popular Disney character since the days of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty).
“I have a great fear that kids are gonna hang out with them solely because of that, or resent them because of that,” Shepard continued. “To me, the two options both seem terrible. Either they’re gonna have fake friends or they’re gonna have people hate them for no reason.”
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