Katherine Schwarzenegger’s “husband appreciation” moment quickly backfired online.
The 36-year-old, the eldest child of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, was under fire for praising her husband, Chris Pratt, for what looked like a home-building project.
The internet seemed to have zero patience for it and hotly debated outdated gender roles in the comments section.
Highlights
- Katherine Schwarzenegger shared a video of her “golden retriever husband” Chris Pratt on Instagram.
- The clip was brutally roasted online, as many took her words as a reinforcement of oudated gender roles.
- “I don’t know why these two have to be so performative about their traditional marriage values,” one commented online. “...This whole family just seems like a lot of BS.”
- The 'Kat and Brandy' author recently said there were a “variety of reasons” that make her grateful for having Chris as her husband.
Katherine Schwarzenegger’s “husband appreciation” moment quickly backfired online
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Katherine Schwarzenegger was brutally roasted for what some saw as a jibe at feminism.
She praised actor Chris Pratt for being a “golden retriever husband” and shared a video of him building a dollhouse for their kids.
Playing in the background was a very fitting song choice: Olivia Dean’s Man I Need.
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“I'll never understand when women say, ‘I don't need my husband’ when I very much in fact do need my husband because who else would build our daughters a dollhouse?” read the text on Katherine’s video.
Fans quickly accused her of reinforcing outdated gender roles, saying, “Girl bye. If you can't build a dollhouse then that's a you problem.”
“Rich nepo baby doesn't wanna build a dollhouse so she throws women under the bus,” one commented online
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“Women can do that. We can buy our own homes and vote, too!” one said, while another wrote, “Wives and women can build doll houses, too.”
“She's admitting she can't follow some IKEA instructions to build a dollhouse?” another chimed in. “Lol skill issue.”
“I don’t know why these two have to be so performative about their traditional marriage values,” one commented online. “...This whole family just seems like a lot of BS.”
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Some took the other side of the argument, saying: “Women calm down she's just being appreciative of her husband! It ain't a competition.”
“Men are not appreciated enough,” another said. “So grateful how men and women compliment each other.”
“Women DO need their husbands. Just like men need their wives,” wrote another.
Katherine and Chris tied the knot in 2019 with an intimate ceremony in Montecito, California.
They have since welcomed three children, Lyla, 5, and Eloise, 3, and Ford, 1.
The Guardians of the Galaxy actor is also a father to son Jack, 13, with ex-wife and actress Anna Faris.
Katherine and Chris tied the knot in 2019 and share three children
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Jack was born several weeks early with a list of health complications. The premature baby had issues with vision and muscle development and had to undergo multiple procedures.
Both parents have since said he is a happy and healthy teenager. But netizens have stirred controversy over their parenting.
Fans claimed Chris insulated his ex-wife Anna in a 2021 Instagram post celebrating Katherine.
“She’s given me an amazing life, a gorgeous healthy daughter, she chews so loudly that sometimes I put in my ear buds to drown it out, but that’s love!” he said.
“She helps me with everything. In return, periodically, I open a jar of pickles,” he added about their “trade.”
The internet called the actor a “horrible human being,” with one claiming he was praising his second wife for “giving him a daughter without health issues, knowing his son with Anna Faris has had health issues.”
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Chris addressed the backlash and called it “f***ed up.”
“My son’s gonna read that one day,” he told Men’s Health magazine at the time. “And it’s etched in digital stone. It really f***ing bothered me, dude. I cried about it. I was like, I hate that these blessings in my life are — to the people close to me — a real burden.”
Katherine also addressed the controversy, saying she has learned to ignore negative comments, having grown up with famous parents.
“Growing up, hearing people say certain things about my parents, my siblings, my extended family” was difficult, she told the New York Times.
She said she learned from her mother, an Emmy award-winning journalist, that responding to negative comments would be a “never-ending” trap.
The Kat and Brandy author said there are a “variety of reasons” that make her grateful for having Chris as her husband
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In an interview last month, Katherine gushed with praise over her husband, saying she was “grateful” for marrying him and credited his “humor” for helping the family get through tough situations.
“For a variety of reasons, I'm grateful that I married Chris. But one of them ... [is] being able to have someone who brings humor in challenging times,” she told People.
“Even when not funny, someone who can also make you laugh in a really hard time is really important,” she continued. “He definitely does that, so I'm really grateful for that.
She said they were like “teammates in so much of life,” especially when it came to parenting.
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The Kat and Brandy author recalled one time when her entire household was down with the flu and how the actor managed to keep everyone’s spirits up.
“I would say that he's definitely always really humor-filled,” she told the outlet.
“Even when he's sick, he's making jokes that make a rough situation or a rough week have some lighthearted moments,” she added.
The Guardians of the Galaxy explained why his three youngest kids haven't seen any of his movies yet
Chris spoke about his kids while promoting Super Mario Galaxy Movie last month, saying his son Jack thinks he’s “cool” for his movies. But his three younger kids haven’t seen any of his films yet.
“Katherine is very old-school when it comes to screens and technology and all of that stuff,” he told Today. “So, we're waiting.”
“There's gonna be a season, they're gonna realize their dad is really cool,” he continued. “They haven't realized it yet, but one day.”
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Months after their 2019 wedding, Katherine’s father Arnold Schwarzenegger in an interview that he respects Chris very much and called him a talented actor.
“But besides all of that, he's great with my daughter,” the action hero told ET, “and that's the most important part.”
“No one says ‘I don’t need my husband.’ They say ‘I don’t need a MAN,’” one commented online
