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Boston Herald
Boston Herald
10 Apr 2024
Jami Ganz


NextImg:Zendaya on Tom Holland, stepping away from spotlight to raise future kids

Jami Ganz | New York Daily News (TNS)

Zendaya is looking toward her future roles — including offscreen motherhood, and maybe even a semi-normal life.

That Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” sees the 27-year-old make a “refreshing” departure from her usual slate of teen and 20-something roles, led her to open up to Vogue about whether audiences will “buy me as my own age, or maybe a little bit older, because I have friends that have kids, or are having kids.”

In fact, the Emmy-winning “Euphoria” star says she’s already thinking about what she does and doesn’t want for her own future children.

“I don’t necessarily want my kids to have to deal with this,” the Disney Channel alum said of fame compromising her ability to live a normal and private life. “[I’m asking myself], what does my future look like? Am I going to be a public-facing person forever?”

Instead, the “Dune” star — who has been dating “Spider-Man” co-star Tom Holland since at least 2021 — would like to “make things and pop out [in public] when I need to pop out, and then have a safe and protected life with my family.”

Zendaya arrives on the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Zendaya arrives on the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

However, she confessed to feeling “massive anxiety” that limiting her time in the spotlight would result in the public’s loss of interest.

Zendaya admitted to having “complicated feelings about kids and fame and being in the public eye,” noting that she’s “only now, as an adult … starting to go, Oh, OK, wait a minute: I’ve only ever done what I’ve known, and this is all I’ve known.”

As for when she and Holland, also 27, will take the next step in their love story, be it marriage or having kids, she didn’t say.

But Zendaya did say she “couldn’t be more proud” of her boyfriend, as he returns to the stage in May for a new London production of “Romeo & Juliet.”

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