Channing Tatum's empowering letter to his daughter will make you love him even more
For an editorial which he was asked to write for Cosmopolitan to mark the launch of his Las Vegas show, Magic Mike Live, Channing Tatum penned a heartfelt open letter for his 3-year-old daughter, Everly that will make your heart melt.
The 37-year-old talks about how he started envisioning her as a teen or young adult, discovering her sexuality and dreaming of love, encouraging her always to be authentic.
“I tried to imagine the things I’d want her to read that would help her understand men and sex and partnership better, and at that moment, I realized a strange thing,” Tatum wrote.
“I don’t want her looking to the outside world for answers. My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self, no matter what she thinks men want her to be.”
The inspiration for this advice came from his wife, Jenna Dewan.
He shared, "Jenna just blurted out that she knew exactly what she wanted in life and she didn’t have to look for it anymore because it was me,” Tatum recalled. “She had no idea what I’d say or how I’d react, but that was her truth. I remember feeling this incredible rush -- it was the sexiest thing she’d ever done for me. I felt strength, because in that moment, she had accepted every part of me, the good and the bad.”
“That radical authenticity of hers was what made me fall head over heels in love,” the actor continued. “Before I experienced it, I wouldn’t have known how to ask for it. Now I know it’s what I was always craving. And that’s what I want for my daughter -- to be expectation-less with her love and not allow preconceived standards to affect her, to ask herself what she wants and feel empowered enough to act on it,” he adds.
The gender roles that society imposes has kept women from speaking their mind or initiating relationships but Tatum revealed that he sees this changing.
"I guess if there’s one thing that I think men wish women knew, it’s just that they alone are enough," he wrote. "When more women start to truly feel this power in themselves, the world will become so magical, it makes my head hurt."
Are these guys #FamGoals or what?
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