Sometimes sibling rivalry happens over the things that parents would never expect. In a recently rediscovered clip from an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, actor Chris Hemsworth revealed there was something his sons had that his daughter was very jealous of. At the time of the 2015 interview, his daughter India was 4 and his twin sons Sasha and Tristan were 2. India was very observant about her brothers’ bodies and became jealous that they had penises and she didn’t. So how did Chris handle it?
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His daughter was a bit envious of her little brothers.
Talking with Ellen about how his kids get along, Chris admitted, "My daughter is kind of envious of my boys at the moment.
"She came to me the other day and she was like, 'You know, Papa, I want one of those things that Sasha and Tristan have.'"
Chris knew that he had to react quickly.
"I’m like, 'What do you mean?'" he recalled asking her. "She said, 'You know the things in between the legs that you have.'"
He was finally able to put the pieces together, and he knew he was going to have to tread carefully when it came to his response.
He was clearly caught off guard, but thankfully he recovered quickly.
He admitted that he was definitely scrambling for what to say in the moment so he could help her understand the differences between hers and her brothers’ bodies.
"I was like 'Oh, um. Well, you see, girls … ' and then my brain’s like, 'How do we handle this?!'" he said.
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India was pretty adamant about what body parts she wanted.
"Girls have breasts," he explained, but India didn’t seem satisfied by his answer.
"I don’t want breasts!" the young girl said adamantly.
"She goes, 'Like I really want one.' I was like, 'A penis?' She was like, 'I want a penis!'" he recalled.
This would be enough to send any parent into a panic.
Chris had a perfect response to her demands.
The Thor actor realized that maybe he was taking the wrong approach and quickly pivoted his line of thinking. "You know what, you can be whatever you want to be," he told his daughter.
"She goes 'Thanks, Dad!' Runs off to the playground and that was it," he said. "I’ll have to pick that conversation up in a few years’ time."
India is now a tween, and we’d love to know how that conversation has changed in the years since!
