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Catherine Zeta-Jones has detailed her surprisingly low-key family staycations with her husband Michael Douglas and their two kids.
The Wednesday star, 55, and the American actor, 80, have been married since 2000 and share two children – Dylan, 24, and Carys, 21.
The couple have raised their children amid the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but also enjoy some very low-key family moments away from the spotlight.
Catherine has revealed she and Michael have taken their kids on UK staycations to Butlin’s and Legoland – despite their £250million ($360million) combined net worth.
She told Radio Times of her kids: ‘They’ve been to Butlin’s, Legoland, seen the sights in London, up to Scotland, over to Ireland. They’ve even been to the Isle of Man, I think.’
Catherine added that she insists her children spend two weeks in her native Wales every year to spend time with her parents – David James Jones and Patricia Fair.
However, Dylan and Carys have also enjoyed some bucket list trips abroad over the years including to India, Patagonia, Africa and Cambodia, among others.
Catherine said she always wanted to be a mother and sweetly described it as one of her biggest achievements.
‘Having children is one of the most amazing joys of my life,’ she gushed, before reflecting on how motherhood changed her perspective on the world.
‘All of a sudden, I saw doom and gloom everywhere,’ she quipped.
‘My husband would be throwing them up in the air and I’d be thinking, ”We have ceiling fans! They’ll be decapitated!”
‘I started to see the worst-case scenarios everywhere. But I think that’s just getting older and thinking ”Ooh, what if?”’
Catherine added that having children brought home the amount of work her parents put in raising her and her two brothers David and Lyndon in Swansea.
‘My mother brought up three kids. She had no help. My brother was judo, my other brother was swimming, I was dancing,’ she explained.
‘I was part of the amateur dramatics, the Dylan Thomas Theatre, I’m sure there was gymnastics thrown in there at some point…
‘Just taking us to all of that, as a parent you think, ”Oh my gosh,” whereas as a kid you’re p****d off that she was five minutes late in picking you up that one time.’
Catherine and Michael are both household names in Hollywood and their two lookalike children look set to follow in their showbiz footsteps.
Carys recently finished her degree in Film and International Relations from Brown University in Rhode Island and is also a skilled piano player.
Carys’ has four acting credits so far listed on IMDB, with her work including her taking on directorial roles in short films Shell and August.
Her latest film, another short called F*ck That Guy, headed to the PROOF Film Festival in Los Angeles and saw Spike Lee serve as an executive producer.
Her brother Dylan is also in the spotlight and hosts Young American – ‘Gen Z powered political talk show’ – with Dylan Douglas.
Catherine has previously opened up about how both her children are determined to get into acting – despite a candid warning from their father.
She said on The Drew Barrymore Show in 2021: ‘Their love of the craft of acting is so strong that even when their brains are doing politics and history in school, their passion is acting.
‘And they’ve never done anything professional, but they would like to go into acting.’
Acting certainly runs in the family as Michael is also the son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Dill, though he warned Carys about always being known as ‘the daughter of…’ in Hollywood.
Catherine and Michael have been in a relationship since 1998 after meeting for the first time at the Deauville Film Festival in 1996.
They tied the knot in 2000 and celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary in November of last year.
Read the full interview in Radio Times, out now.
