18 Celebs Who Are The Most Supportive And Dedicated Stepparents
We all agree that being parents is hard, which means becoming stepparents is much harder. Stepparents might face many challenges. They need to recover their wounds from the past while settling down with a new family. Certainly, everyone considers it to be one of the harsh periods in their life. And celebrities are no exception. Some celebrity marriages all ended in divorce. Later, they move on to tie the knot with another person whose family also broke up.
No matter how these celebrities face blended family issues, they have shown us that they can overcome all the difficulties and become dedicated stepparents. From Russell Wilson to Barbra Streisand, these stepdads and stepmoms are now happy with their new partners and stepchildren.
Below are 18 celebrities who have been known as supportive and devoted stepparents. Let’s check them out!
“It’s a blessing to be able to have [the kids] altogether, and to have a wife who’s open and treats them as if they’re her kids,” Offset said of their family unit. “It could be an issue, but I don’t have to go through that, and that’s beautiful.”
“I couldn’t possibly have asked for a better stepfather for my daughter than Matt,” Arby said. “He treats Alexia like she is his flesh and blood. Matt has been an absolute blessing for my daughter.”
“Matt, Luciana, and I all have a wonderful relationship ... Matt is a fantastic stepfather, and Luciana is a terrific mom," he added.
Matt also tattooed all of his children’s names on his arm.
"Being a stepdad ... has taught me what love is like, what life is really like, [and] how God intends us to love," Russell said. "One of the greatest gifts in the world is children."
“He’s a good stepdad,” Domino told Us Weekly of Penn in 2019. “He doesn’t have to be ‘dad’ so he can have more fun with him. It’s nice. The stepparent thing is uncharted territory for me ’cause I didn’t grow up with one, but … he takes care of him well.”
"When I married Will, I knew Trey was part of the package. Period!" Jada wrote. "If I didn't want that, I needed to marry someone else. Then I learned if I'm going to love Trey, I had to learn to love the most important person in the world to him — his mother."
The Girls Trip star also claimed the importance of understanding children from the previous relationships in their lives.
"I can't support any actions that keep a man from his children of a previous marriage," Jada wrote. "These are the situations that separate the women from the girls. ... We can't say we love our man and then come in between him and his children. THAT'S selfishness — not love."
"I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence. I love them," Ashton told Marc Maron's WTF podcast in 2020. "I'm never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honoring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing."
"I've been a stepmom for almost 11 years," Kate said. "My stepdaughter's name is Jasper, and I have watched her grow up from about 12 years old until, she's 24 now, and she is the light of my life. She is. I'm so proud of her."
Gisele and Tom Brady share one child named Jack, who was from his unhappy relationship with Bridget Moynahan. Later, the couple shares two children in addition, Benjamin and Vivian. In 2018, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen spoke to People that she wanted to settle down with Tom, and also hoped "Jack to have a brother or sister close in age."
“[Jack] opened my heart in ways I didn’t even know my heart could expand,” Gisele said. “I fell in love with him.”
"Right now I am a stepmom to three amazing kids, and I've had my hands full, and they are amazing and wonderful ... It's been a lot of fun, a lot of fun being a stepmom," Eva revealed.
The couple later welcomed a son named Santiago, in 2018.
"I have a stepfather in my life who's one of my heroes. I love my stepfather and I look up to him and he's like a father to me, so I have a good inspiration in my life for how to do this and the kind of stepdad I want to be," Blake said. "And I take it very seriously."
"But I also have a blast with it, I'm not gonna lie," he added. "I don't take it so seriously that I'm not enjoying this time because I am, especially now that we're five years into this thing ... I can't imagine my life without these kids now."
After the breakup, Jason is always supportive of his stepdaughter.
"We're just so proud," Jason said about Zoë's role as Catwoman in the film. "Lisa couldn't be here so we're representing, me and the babies. We're very excited to just be here ... It's still family, you know?"
"My beautiful bonus daughter on "The Real" today! She is killing it on Queen Sugar," Tina wrote on Instagram.
"When [Catherine] came into our family it could so easily have gone another way. You hear stories all the time about the younger stepmother pushing away the kids from a previous marriage," Cameron said.
"I have a great family," Kate said. "I have a beautiful mother. I have a stepfather who stepped in and played a huge, huge part in sharing what it is to have a dependable father figure in our life. But it doesn't take away from the fact that we didn't know our dad."
“I knew that when I married him, I was married to them,” Gabrielle said during the 2021 We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle podcast episode, via Yahoo! Entertainment. “What I realized very quickly is you will never, ever, I don’t care if the other parent is dead, you will never be able to replace the other parent. Don’t try to replace the other parent. That is not your job. Your job is to be consistent. If you’re a disciplinarian in your own life, continue to be that. Just be consistent so they know who you are… and kids adapt.”
When Dakota introduced Antonio to a Hollywood Actor Award in 2019, she spoke on stage that her stepfather's dedication inspired her and her family members.
"He loved my mother, and my siblings and I so big, and so fiercely and so loud, that it would change all of our lives together," Dakota said.
"They were two and six when I was first around them, and now they are 10 and 13. To be around them, and to watch them have a childhood, it's been amazing to see," said LeAnn.
"She's, like, in our face. She's calling all the time, emailing all the time, she has name suggestions," Josh told the Good Morning America. "We got her a bracelet that says "Grandma" on it, and she started crying. She's into it, man, really, really into it. It's great."
No matter how these celebrities face blended family issues, they have shown us that they can overcome all the difficulties and become dedicated stepparents. From Russell Wilson to Barbra Streisand, these stepdads and stepmoms are now happy with their new partners and stepchildren.
Below are 18 celebrities who have been known as supportive and devoted stepparents. Let’s check them out!
#1 Cardi B
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“It’s a blessing to be able to have [the kids] altogether, and to have a wife who’s open and treats them as if they’re her kids,” Offset said of their family unit. “It could be an issue, but I don’t have to go through that, and that’s beautiful.”
#2 Matt Damon
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“I couldn’t possibly have asked for a better stepfather for my daughter than Matt,” Arby said. “He treats Alexia like she is his flesh and blood. Matt has been an absolute blessing for my daughter.”
“Matt, Luciana, and I all have a wonderful relationship ... Matt is a fantastic stepfather, and Luciana is a terrific mom," he added.
Matt also tattooed all of his children’s names on his arm.
#3 Russell Wilson
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"Being a stepdad ... has taught me what love is like, what life is really like, [and] how God intends us to love," Russell said. "One of the greatest gifts in the world is children."
#4 Penn Badgley
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“He’s a good stepdad,” Domino told Us Weekly of Penn in 2019. “He doesn’t have to be ‘dad’ so he can have more fun with him. It’s nice. The stepparent thing is uncharted territory for me ’cause I didn’t grow up with one, but … he takes care of him well.”
#5 Jada Pinkett Smith
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"When I married Will, I knew Trey was part of the package. Period!" Jada wrote. "If I didn't want that, I needed to marry someone else. Then I learned if I'm going to love Trey, I had to learn to love the most important person in the world to him — his mother."
The Girls Trip star also claimed the importance of understanding children from the previous relationships in their lives.
"I can't support any actions that keep a man from his children of a previous marriage," Jada wrote. "These are the situations that separate the women from the girls. ... We can't say we love our man and then come in between him and his children. THAT'S selfishness — not love."
#6 Ashton Kutcher
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"I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence. I love them," Ashton told Marc Maron's WTF podcast in 2020. "I'm never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honoring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing."
#7 Kate Bosworth
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"I've been a stepmom for almost 11 years," Kate said. "My stepdaughter's name is Jasper, and I have watched her grow up from about 12 years old until, she's 24 now, and she is the light of my life. She is. I'm so proud of her."
#8 Gisele Bündchen
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Gisele and Tom Brady share one child named Jack, who was from his unhappy relationship with Bridget Moynahan. Later, the couple shares two children in addition, Benjamin and Vivian. In 2018, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen spoke to People that she wanted to settle down with Tom, and also hoped "Jack to have a brother or sister close in age."
“[Jack] opened my heart in ways I didn’t even know my heart could expand,” Gisele said. “I fell in love with him.”
#9 Eva Longoria
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"Right now I am a stepmom to three amazing kids, and I've had my hands full, and they are amazing and wonderful ... It's been a lot of fun, a lot of fun being a stepmom," Eva revealed.
The couple later welcomed a son named Santiago, in 2018.
#10 Blake Shelton
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"I have a stepfather in my life who's one of my heroes. I love my stepfather and I look up to him and he's like a father to me, so I have a good inspiration in my life for how to do this and the kind of stepdad I want to be," Blake said. "And I take it very seriously."
"But I also have a blast with it, I'm not gonna lie," he added. "I don't take it so seriously that I'm not enjoying this time because I am, especially now that we're five years into this thing ... I can't imagine my life without these kids now."
#11 Jason Momoa
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After the breakup, Jason is always supportive of his stepdaughter.
"We're just so proud," Jason said about Zoë's role as Catwoman in the film. "Lisa couldn't be here so we're representing, me and the babies. We're very excited to just be here ... It's still family, you know?"
#12 Tina Knowles-Lawson
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"My beautiful bonus daughter on "The Real" today! She is killing it on Queen Sugar," Tina wrote on Instagram.
#13 Catherine Zeta-Jones
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"When [Catherine] came into our family it could so easily have gone another way. You hear stories all the time about the younger stepmother pushing away the kids from a previous marriage," Cameron said.
#14 Kurt Russell
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"I have a great family," Kate said. "I have a beautiful mother. I have a stepfather who stepped in and played a huge, huge part in sharing what it is to have a dependable father figure in our life. But it doesn't take away from the fact that we didn't know our dad."
#15 Gabrielle Union
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“I knew that when I married him, I was married to them,” Gabrielle said during the 2021 We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle podcast episode, via Yahoo! Entertainment. “What I realized very quickly is you will never, ever, I don’t care if the other parent is dead, you will never be able to replace the other parent. Don’t try to replace the other parent. That is not your job. Your job is to be consistent. If you’re a disciplinarian in your own life, continue to be that. Just be consistent so they know who you are… and kids adapt.”
#16 Antonio Banderas
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When Dakota introduced Antonio to a Hollywood Actor Award in 2019, she spoke on stage that her stepfather's dedication inspired her and her family members.
"He loved my mother, and my siblings and I so big, and so fiercely and so loud, that it would change all of our lives together," Dakota said.
#17 LeAnn Rimes
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"They were two and six when I was first around them, and now they are 10 and 13. To be around them, and to watch them have a childhood, it's been amazing to see," said LeAnn.
#18 Barbra Streisand
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"She's, like, in our face. She's calling all the time, emailing all the time, she has name suggestions," Josh told the Good Morning America. "We got her a bracelet that says "Grandma" on it, and she started crying. She's into it, man, really, really into it. It's great."
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