Sigourney Weaver Reveals Her Child Charlotte Is Nonbinary, Uses They/Them Pronouns
usmagazine.comA new introduction. Sigourney Weaver revealed that her only child, Charlotte, identifies as nonbinary.The Alien actress, 73, spoke candidly about her family life during an interview on the “Smartless” podcast earlier this month with hosts Will Arnett, Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman.
Weaver has been married to Jim Simpson since October 1984, and the couple welcomed Charlotte — whom Weaver refers to as Char throughout the episode — in 1990.“He is an absolutely amazing director,” the Holes star gushed of her husband, 66, who has an established career in both stage and screen. “I feel very fortunate — since we hardly knew each other when we got married — that I ended up marrying someone who totally got what I did, respected the time it took, really enjoys working with me on the occasional script. … I can run lines with him, we can talk about stuff.”When asked whether she and the filmmaker started a family after their wedding, the Cabin in the Woods actress said: “We have a wonderful daughter who’s now 32 — I don’t know how, she still looks 12. … In fact, they’re nonbinary and they teach.”The Yale University alum has frequently opened up about her parenthood journey over the years, telling The Guardian in 2010 that being a mom is “absolutely the most important thing” in her life. “My family comes first and I’m so grateful to them that they let me go off and make films,” she continued. “But, you know, I find it very difficult to leave them.
I hate it. I have had therapy and found it helpful in dealing with the guilt I’ve felt about leaving them. Going to New Zealand to make Avatar when my [child] was applying to colleges almost killed me.”At the time, Weaver confessed that she “would have loved” to have expanded her family
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