They Could Have Been Dentists! Will Smith Says It’s ‘Insane’ To Think He Pushed Kids Jaden & Willow Into Show Business
May 29 2013, Published 6:45 a.m. ET
Will Smith wants the world to know that he did not push his kids into the limelight and that it would have frightened him if they chose to become dentists!
The After Earth star, whose two children with Jada Pinkett, Jaden and Willow, have become famous in their own right as teenagers, insists to New York Magazine’s Vulture that he did not push his kids into show business and that they both made “informed” career choices – and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.
“It may seem like we have pushed our kids into the business, but that is absolutely insane,” Smith insists. “I would never, ever, push somebody to have their face on a poster that’s going be everywhere in the world.”
Smith adds that it was Jaden, 14, who made the “informed” decision to pursue a career in entertainment, but that he is happy to help his son by offering up all his Hollywood connections.
“He is making a choice from the informed,” he explains. “It’s less scary to me than if he wanted to be a dentist in that I couldn’t help with what he’d chosen. I have relationships with some of the biggest filmmakers and actors and producers on Earth. So I can be a huge help.”
Will admits that he tried to talk his daughter Willow, 12, into starring in Annie alongside Beyonce, but that she decided that she wanted to take a hiatus from performing.