Arnold Schwarzenegger has five children. The actor-turned-politician, 75, shares daughters Katherine, 33, and Christina, 31, and sons Patrick, 29, and Christopher, 25, with his ex-wife, television journalist Maria Shriver.
The pair were married in 1986 but Shriver, who is the niece of President John F. Kennedy, filed for divorce in 2011 after she confronted Schwarzenegger in a marriage counseling session about the secret son he fathered with a member of their household staff. However, the pair did not finalize their divorce until a decade later in December 2021.
Schwarzenegger had an affair in 1996 with Mildred Baena, the family's housekeeper, which resulted in the birth of his fifth child, Joseph Baena, 25, who was born less than a week after his and Shriver's youngest son.
Speaking in the new Netflix docuseries, "Arnold," the former governor of California said that did not know for sure that Baena was his for many years, but as the years went by, their resemblance could not be denied.
"In the beginning, I really didn't know, I just started kind of feeling. The older he got the more it became clear to me," he said. "And it was then just really a matter of, how do you keep this quiet? How do you keep this a secret?"
Schwarzenegger went public with the news shortly after he and Shriver told their kids, and today "The Terminator" star's relationship with all five of his offspring is "fantastic," per a 2015 appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
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