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Joshua Jacksonis relishing in the joys of fatherhood!
The first-time dad, 43, spoke aboutparenting his daughter, 15 months — whom he shares with wifeJodie Turner-Smith— in a recent interview and confirmed “all the clichés are true” about becoming a parent.
“It’s amazing. It is amazing,” Jackson said on Friday’s episode of SiriusXM’sJess Cagle.“My first, obviously, and she’s just a little bundle of joy every day.”
TheDawson’s Creekalum continued, “It’s just this amazing thing where all the clichés are true. I mean, all of them, they’re like, ‘Oh, you’ll never experience love like this.’ That’s true. And ‘You think you’re in love with them when they first arrive, but you have no idea how much deeper it gets all the time.’ That’s absolutely true.”
“As she starts to come alive and really experience the world and her natural curiosity, and she’s so fearless, it’s just the most incredible thing to watch,” he gushed.
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“Sometimes she just wants a hug and your heart falls out of your chest because you’re like, ‘Aw,'” the first-time parent explained.
Jackson and Turner-Smith, 34, welcomed their daughter in April 2020. The couplewed in 2019after first being linked in 2018.
Gushing about their relationship, theQueen and Slimstartold PEOPLEearlier this year, “I think it’s really beautiful to be with someone who is so supportive and so loving.”
“We’re so similar in so many ways. We’re like mirrors for each other. And I just really love that human being,” she shared.
Turner-Smith added, while laughing, “We high five each other all the time about how great we chose. We’re like, ‘You did a great job choosing,’ and then we’re like, ‘Yeah, you too.’ "
Earlier this week, her husband revealedthe actress was actually the one to propose.
Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson.David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images
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“She asked me, yeah, on New Year’s Eve,” Jackson confirmed whileappearingonThe Tonight ShowMonday. “We were in Nicaragua. It was very beautiful, incredibly romantic. We were walking down the beach, and she asked me to marry her.”
The actor added that he always knew he and Turner-Smith were “destined” to get married.
source: people.com
