Maria Shriver Calls Chris Pratt ‘a Nice Member of Our Household’

Maria Shriver understands the significance of household — together with those that marry into it.

The I Am Maria writer, 69, opened up on the Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast’s most up-to-date episode about being “blessed” with son-in-law Chris Pratt, who’s married to and shares three children along with her oldest baby, daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger.

“I am so blessed with my son-in-law, who’s so loving and religious, type,” Shriver mentioned of Pratt, 45. “He is such an ideal husband and father, and he’s such an ideal member of our household.”

Of her son Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s fiancée, she added, “Identical with my daughter-in-law-to-be, Abby [Champion].”

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Shriver went on to emphasize how she feels it is “tremendous essential” to prioritize her kids’s vital others, explaining, “How do these companions slot in? How do you welcome these companions?”

“How does all people be sure that they make room, and the way can we open up our hearts to be sure that we’re a rising household — an inclusive household, a loving household?” she added.

Shriver mentioned it is her “job” as a mother or father to make sure the dynamic is adopted via on — and she or he would identified, having 4 brothers and 4 sisters-in-law herself.

“I at all times would say to my daughters, ‘You need to at all times make room. Your brothers deliver any person dwelling, we have gotta develop,’ ” she continued. “Our aim is to be welcoming and to be open and to maintain communication going. Since you by no means wanna put your self in a spot to make a brother or sister select between their associate and their relationship with you. Household is all the pieces.”

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And “so, thus far so good,” so far as the mom of 4 is worried. (Other than Katherine, 35, and Patrick, 31, Shriver additionally shares two different kids with ex-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger: Christina Schwarzenegger, 33, and Christopher Schwarzenegger, 27.)

“I’ve heard so many individuals wrestle on this area, and see how fragile it’s,” she mentioned. “I feel household’s fragile. And I feel recognizing and understanding that, at each increment, it is fragile.”

“And so to provide it a robust basis, to maintain the communication open and acknowledge that it is each sturdy and fragile, is essential,” Shriver added.

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