Robin Thickewas forced to do some soul-searching after the2016 death of his father,Growing Painsstar Alan Thicke.
The “Blurred Lines” singer, 42, spoke candidly about his having matured and embraced his role as family patriarch in recent years, a role he especially values now that he’s the father totwo young daughters.
“I had a little maturing to do. Even though I was in my late 30s, still had a little maturing to do,” Thicke said on Steve Harvey’s talk showStevein an interview airing Tuesday.
The singer explained that after the 2010 birth of son Julian Fuego with ex-wifePaula Patton, his career was just taking off, making it difficult to be a true family man.
“When you’re on the come up, you’re worried about yourself and your own future. And then you have all these other mouths to feed and hearts to take care of,” he said. “When my first son was born, I was still in the middle and the peak of some parts of my career. Then ‘Blurred Lines’ happened, and it was just, I was gone a lot.”
But after the death of his father, Thicke said he realized he had to step up to be there for his younger half-brother Carter, who was just 19 when their dad died.
Robin Thicke, Julian.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for UCLA Institute of the Environment
“When my father passed, I became the patriarch of my family. My young 20-year-old brother, he needed a big brother, and it just felt like now I had to take it onto my shoulders to be a much better, more focused, man than I was before,” Thicke explained.
Meanwhile, the singer is also the patriarch of his own family with fiancée April Love Geary, 24, with whom hewelcomed his second daughteron Feb. 26.
Little Lola Alain joined big sister Mia Love, who was born Feb. 22, 2018.
Robin Thicke and April Love Geary.REX/Shutterstock
“There’s a feeling of, especially now that I have two daughters, I don’t want them to be, when they’re grown up, to not be proud of their father, and the man that I am,” he said. “I want to be a father that they can be proud of.”
TheMasked Singerpanelistpopped the questionto Geary on Christmas Eve, just months after the couplelost their Malibu homein the devastating wildfires that hit California in November.
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source: people.com
