Heather Dubrowis opening up about son Ace’s coming out.
TheReal Housewives of Orange Countystar, 54, talked about the decision topublicly announcethe 12-year-old is transgender — news she shared onInstagramlast week — during the episode of hernewly revamped podcast,Let’s Talk with Heather Dubrow.
“First of all, I just want to say thank you. I’m going to get very emotional during this, but thank you to all our supporters,” she began, explaining how many people reached out with messages of love and support after she shared the news.
“I need to clarify some things. With all the support, there’s always going to be hate. You’re going to have haters. You’re going to have people who don’t understand,” she continued, explaining that some people have reached out to ask her why this felt like the time to publicly discuss Ace’s coming out.
“I get that. Ace is 12 years old. Why now?” she acknowledged.
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“As a mom, you look at your kids, and all you want to do is protect them. That’s it. You just want to protect them. You want to put helmets on them. You want to wrap them in bubble wrap and just pray that nothing ever hurts them physically and emotionally, and of course, that’s what I want to do with my kids,” Dubrow noted.
“But the truth of our lives is that we’ve been in the public eye for many years. My son has been in the public eye since he was 9 months old. As much as we want to protect him — and that is our number one priority and our number one goal — for a variety of reasons, it also, over the last few years and more recently the past few months, became apparent that we had to say something.”
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Dubrow explained the family’s “goal was to acknowledge who our incredible son is and show how much we love and support our child. We’re not hiding our son but trying to protect him from the world, as all parents want to do.”
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“Neither of these things are true. They are the farthest thing from the truth. Again, it’s really just about protecting my kids. And I’ve already explained why now. We are not trying to leverage our child for content, and I’m just going to leave that there,” she leveled. “I have four kids, and they are incredible, and they’re mine.”
“I know it. I didn’t know that when I was younger, but I will tell you, being a parent, as so many of you know, is the hardest job on the planet. But being a mother to me is my most important job ever,” she continued.
“I take my kids and all of your kids to my heart always, every day, and I know I was given these four kids for a reason. And not only will I protect them and fight for their safety and their rights and their freedom, but I promise, I’m going to help you protect yours too.”
source: people.com
