While opening up about how fatherhood has changed his lifeon the social-media platformTuesday in partnership with Johnnie Walker, Ohanian said that when he found out Williams was pregnant, he started making radical changes in his life — for the better.
“It’s made my entire outlook different. When I found outI was going to be a dadand I realized I had not taken any care of myself for the first 34 years of my life, and I needed to change that,” Ohanian said. “From the moment I learned there was a little poppy seed inside my wife, I was like, ‘Geez, I have to get my life right.’ ”
That’s when the 35-year-old says he changed his diet, drank tons of water, exercised and quit some of the “vices” he’d had. “Olympiainspired me because themoment I found out we were going to have her, I just got my life together,” he said later in the talk. “I owe her for helping me out with that.”
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Interestingly enough, Ohanian said becoming a father helped him to understand some of the characters onGame of Throneswho are known for going to great lengths to protect their children.
“I finally understandGame of Thrones. I think about how I would do anything for my daughter, and also my wife,” he shared. “[Fatherhood] gives me this clarity of thought around every decision I make, not just professionally, but personally, and everything else. It just feels really good. It’s like a higher level of consciousness.”
Ohanian’s chat came just days afterWilliams withdrew from the French Opendue to a chest-muscle injury. While he didn’t give details on how his wife is doing since the news, Williams was well enough to playfully troll her husband during the chat, asking him to “say something exciting” and poking fun at his (lack of) dancing skills.
When the two parents weren’t adorably teasing each other, Ohanian also spoke about how much Olympia has grown since her birth in September — and how he struggled to change her diapers when she was a newborn.
“It washarder to change diapers with[my] ogre hands when she was tiny, because everything just felt so precious and giant hands trying to change diapers was a little intimidating for me,” he said. “I thought I was going to break something, but now it’s not so bad. She squirms a lot more, she moves a lot more, so it’s a different kind of hard.”
With every new thing that he has experienced with his daughter, Ohanian said he feels even more responsibilityto raising her the best he can.
“As she’s evolved and leveled up, and changed,” he explained, “all these new little things just make it even more interesting and make me just feel even more responsible for trying to do a good job.”
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But this duty only makes him more excited about having additional little ones with Williams, 36. “We’re going to wait a little while, but my wife and I — if you don’t know, my wife is an amazing mom and my wife adores our little kid — but it’s not easy being two working parents, and we’ve got a lot of amazing support in family,” Ohanian said.
He added, “Obviously, we have resources financially, but I don’t know. [Having more kids] is definitely something we want to do. It’s just a matter of, God willing, getting the timing right. But yeah, I would really love that.”
Until the day Olympia has siblings to play with, Ohanian says he is basking in the happiness of his one little bundle of joy.
“I’m grateful to be her father. It has changed my life, which is true,” Ohanian said of Olympia. “I couldn’t be luckier to have her for a daughter.”
source: people.com
