Meet Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 5 kids – including his love child with his housekeeper: from The Terminator star’s daughter Katherine who wed Chris Pratt, to Joseph Baena, discussed on Netflix’s Arnold
- In his new Netflix docuseries, Arnold, the Hollywood legend opens up about family life and the controversy around his 1996 affair with Mildred Baena, the family’s housekeeper – and their kid, Joseph
- He shares 4 kids with ex-wife Maria Shriver – including Christina, who worked at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, and Patrick, who’s in The Staircase with Colin Firth and Sophie Turner, and dated Miley Cyrus
New Netflix docuseries Arnold, a three-part series that just dropped on June 7, takes an intimate look at Hollywood legend Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life, spanning his five-decade-long career. In the third part, “American”, he also speaks about his ex-wife and children.
Schwarzenegger has five children. The actor-turned-politician shares daughters Katherine and Christina, and sons Patrick and Christopher, with his ex-wife, television journalist Maria Shriver.
The pair were married in 1986 but Shriver, who is the niece of President John F. Kennedy, filed for divorce in 2011 after she confronted Schwarzenegger in a marriage counselling session about the secret son he fathered with a member of their household staff. However, the pair did not finalise their divorce until a decade later in December 2021.
Schwarzenegger had an affair in 1996 with Mildred Baena, the family’s housekeeper, which resulted in the birth of his fifth child, Joseph Baena, 25, who was born less than a week after his and Shriver’s youngest son.
Speaking in the new Netflix docuseries, the former governor of California said that did not know for sure that Baena was his for many years, but as the years went by, their resemblance could not be denied.
“In the beginning, I really didn’t know, I just started kind of feeling [it]. The older he got, the more it became clear to me,” he said. “And it was then just really a matter of, how do you keep this quiet? How do you keep this a secret?”
Here’s everything you need to know about Schwarzenegger’s five children.