Hollywood Dads TELL ALL!

From making sacrifices to getting pranked, famous fathers reveal how they parent

Dwayne Johnson 

Last year, Dwayne starred in Black Adam as a superhero with incredible strength and invulnerability. But in real life, “my superpower as a dad is the ability to not figure out why I keep falling for the ‘Daddy, close your eyes’ trick and I get peanut butter in the face, my face drawn on, kicked in the nuts,” he’s shared, describing the antics of “my two tornadoes” — Jasmine, 7, and Tiana, 5, his girls with Lauren Hashian, 38.

(The Rock also has an adult daughter, Simone, 21, from his first marriage.) It’s worth it, though, he’s said: “I will do honestly anything to bring a smile to my babies’ faces.”

Ryan Reynolds

A perfect dad? Not Ryan. The father of four — who shares daughters James, 8, Inez, 6, and Betty, 3, plus a fourth child born in early 2023, with wife Blake Lively, 35 — has confessed that “like any parent, I’ll have a moment where I’ll just snap.” His three oldest are “wild,” he’s revealed. “I think they have rabies sometimes.” Yet the Deadpool star, 46, is desperate for more time with them. In fact, Ryan took a yearlong break from acting in 2022, passing up huge paydays, to get “some quality time” with the girls, he said, “before they’re teenagers who loathe me.”

John Legend