Arnold Schwarzenegger says he instructed Maria Shriver's mother that he thought her daughter had a 'good' butt the primary time he met her
- Arnold Schwarzenegger first met his ex-wife Maria Shriver at a charity tennis match in 1977.
- On the occasion, he instructed Shriver’s mother, Eunice Kennedy: “Your daughter has a very nice ass.”
- “It was a silly factor to say. I do not know why I mentioned it,” he recalled in new docuseries, “Arnold.”
Talking in a Netflix docuseries, Arnold Schwarzenegger recalled assembly his future spouse Maria Shriver — and his future mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver — in 1977 and the considerably sudden method he let his emotions about Shriver be recognized.
As he recounted within the three-part sequence “Arnold,” the actor had been personally invited by the Kennedys to participate within the Robert F. Kennedy Professional-Superstar Tennis Match, a charitable occasion that befell yearly within the Nineteen Seventies.
Regardless that he had by no means held a tennis racket in his life, Schwarzenegger mentioned he agreed, considering it could be good for publicity as, at that time, he was nonetheless an up-and-coming film star and had not but starred in any of his career-defining films, resembling “The Terminator” and “Twins.”
“Earlier than the precise tennis event, there was a giant celebration. All the Kennedys have been there,” he mentioned. “Eunice got here as much as me and mentioned, ‘Oh, hello, it is so good to have you ever right here. By the way in which, that is my daughter, Maria Shriver.'”
Schwarzenegger mentioned that after this introduction, Eunice instructed him that Shriver was “fond” of him, to which he cheekily replied: “Properly, your daughter has a very nice ass.”
“I mentioned, ‘I’ve to inform you that,'” he continued. “Eunice mentioned, ‘Thanks,’ after which she walked away, type of like, ‘What the hell.'”
“It was a silly factor to say. I do not know why I mentioned it,” Schwarzenegger added with fun.
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On the time, Schwarzenegger was 30 years previous, whereas Shriver was 21. Throughout his match, Schwarzenegger mentioned that he may see that Shriver was intently watching him play “the whole time.”
“After it was over, she and Caroline Kennedy came to visit to me and began chatting. Then Maria mentioned, ‘I believe it is best to come to Hyannis Port with us tonight.'”
Whereas there, Schwarzenegger mentioned that they swam within the ocean collectively and hung out on the Kennedys’ boat, the place sparks started to fly between them the 2 of them.
The next day, the Kennedys invited Schwarzenegger to attend church with them. The actor recalled “sitting there like a schmuck with my tennis shorts on” as a result of he didn’t have a change of garments with him.
Reflecting on the early days of their romance, the “True Lies” actor mentioned: “I actually fell in love with Maria. Not as a result of she was a Kennedy, however as a result of she simply had a rare character.”
He added: “I may see that little insurgent in her. I wished to flee from my house in Austria. She additionally wished to flee. In order that was type of the start of Maria and I.”
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The couple tied the knot in April 1986, almost 9 years after they first met, in a church ceremony held in Hyannis, Massachusetts, surrounded by Shriver’s household and several other A-list names together with Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Barbara Walters, and Oprah Winfrey.
The couple went on to welcome 4 children collectively: daughters Katherine, 33, and Christina, 31, and sons Patrick, 29, and Christopher, 25.
In 2011, after 25 years of marriage, Schwarzenegger and Shriver introduced they have been divorcing because the world discovered of the “Commando” actor’s secret son that he fathered with a member of their family employees. (In 1996, he had an affair with the household’s housekeeper, Mildred Patricia “Patty” Baena, which resulted within the start of his fifth baby, Joseph Baena.)
It took the couple a decade to signal the papers and their divorce was solely finalized in late 2021.
Nonetheless, the previous couple continues to be on good phrases, with Schwarzenegger telling The Hollywood Reporter in Could that the household of six nonetheless do “Easter collectively, Mom’s Day collectively, the Christmases collectively, all birthdays — all the things collectively.”
