Vanessa Lachey Cries Talking About Her Oldest Son Becoming a Teenager

Vanessa Lachey isn’t fully ready for her kids to become teenagers.

In a Friday, Feb. 14 interview with Entertainment Tonight alongside her husband Nick Lachey, 51, she was asked how she’s feeling about her oldest son Camden, 12, becoming a teenager this year. As soon as the question was read, Vanessa began to get emotional.

“That one’s going to get me,” Vanessa said, tearing up. “It’s going to get me because you know that this has been happening in the last couple months.” 

Vanessa and Nick are parents to sons Camden and Phoenix, 8, as well as daughter Brooklyn, 10.

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“They’re growing! I can’t answer this question, I have on fake eyelashes,” she continued. “I’m not nervous about the next phase, I’m excited. Everybody who has older kids talks about how it gets better. I’m hanging onto them still being little. And they’re still little now. So. I’m going to cry.” 

The mom of three then became teary as her husband said, “I feel like I’m in Jerry Maguire when Roy Firestone makes Cuba Gooding Jr. cry. You’re not going to get me to cry, Roy!”

“It’s actually really… it’s such a beautiful question because I love — I know you do too — we love our children and we love watching them grow,” Vanessa explained. “But maybe it’s because NCIS:Hawai’i was cancelled and I was so sad. We were so sad we left Hawaii. That was our dream. And the silver lining to that is it’s been able to give us so much time with our kids.” 

Although she noted that her older son still acts like a kid for now, Vanessa added there’s so much she’s excited to experience with her kids once they get a little older.

“Camden is just…he’s 12 but he’s still like a 12-year-old boy. He watches Bluey with his brother and sister and they’re just still kids,” the star said. “And I’m like really holding onto it because at some point it does change … but I’m excited about girlfriends and boyfriends and driving and whatever.”