{"id":317834,"date":"2026-04-13T05:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=317834"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:43:45","slug":"why-theo-james-thinks-having-a-son-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/why-theo-james-thinks-having-a-son-is-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Theo James Thinks Having a Son Is \u2018Terrifying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Theo James <\/b>had certain fears about becoming a boy dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCapitalism is the dominant force and for those who are celebrated, irrespective of what you might be, for those who are stinking wealthy and driving around in flash cars [that] has been epitomized by Trumpism and every thing that goes with that,\u201d James, 41, said on the Wednesday, April 8, episode of <b>Josh Smith<\/b>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5JdL4bdIWIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Great Chat Show<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, <\/i>referencing the cultural influence of <b>President Donald Trump<\/b><i>. <\/i>\u201cIt\u2019s terrifying having a son because people get lured into this concept very easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cYou don\u2019t must be \u2018hyperwoke,\u2019 nevertheless it\u2019s a few base level of empathy and a few semblance of morality. I believe now that isn\u2019t cool. It\u2019s not cool to discuss those things. It\u2019s cool to be like, \u2018F*** you, I earn a great deal of money.\u2019 But, at the top of the day, there\u2019s a deep emptinessiness inside that as everyone knows and eventually all those people will discover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">James and his wife, <b>Ruth Kearney<\/b>, welcomed their son in late 2023. (The couple also share a daughter, who was born in 2021.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Theo James Reveals When He and Wife Ruth Kearney Welcomed Baby No. 2<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTheo James surprised fans on the 2023 Emmys when he announced that he welcomed his second baby with wife Ruth Kearney last yr. \u201cNow we have a 4-month-old. We\u2019re within the thick of it,\u201d James, 39, announced throughout the KTLA5 Emmys red carpet show on Monday, January 15. \u201cNow we have a daughter after which a 4-month-old [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNow we have a 4-month-old. We\u2019re within the thick of it,\u201d James said <span class=\"s1\">on the Emmy Awards in January 2024<\/span>, confirming that Kearney, 41, gave birth months earlier. \u201cNow we have a daughter after which a 4-month-old son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">James and Kearney, who&#8217;ve been married since 2018, haven&#8217;t publicly revealed their children\u2019s names and maintain a non-public family life. As they continue to be out of the general public eye, James is hopeful to boost his son without the influence of toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI [also] try to have conversations with my friends and be open about mental health and for those who\u2019re combating things,\u201d James said on Wednesday\u2019s episode. \u201cI believe it\u2019s super necessary because mental health affects plenty of men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <i>White Lotus <\/i>alum further believes that toxic masculinity \u201ccomes right down to a fact of an unclear identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey feel untethered, reduced. I believe the misogyny comes from a lot of successful, strong women around them. They don\u2019t know tips on how to take care of that,\u201d he speculated. \u201cThey\u2019re confused by who they&#8217;re or who they ought to be, and the best thing to do is to latch on to something [whether it\u2019s] money, going to the gym plenty of telling people to \u2018go f*** themselves.\u2019 That\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A person\u2019s identity can even affect body image, which James believed is \u201can issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt continually evolves and changes once we discuss men, obviously, women have handled it for hundreds of years they usually proceed to accomplish that,\u201d James acknowledged. \u201cWith men, I believe the thought of, and again it goes into this sort of toxic masculinity thing about identity and forming identity through your body [where] you will have to be larger and more muscular, more swole.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo James had certain fears about becoming a boy dad. \u201cCapitalism is the dominant force and for those who are celebrated, irrespective of what you might be, for those who are stinking wealthy and driving around in flash cars [that] has been epitomized by Trumpism and every thing that goes with that,\u201d James, 41, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[628,845,1961,23092,575],"class_list":["post-317834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-james","tag-son","tag-terrifying","tag-theo","tag-thinks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317837,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317834\/revisions\/317837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}