Aaron Paul Recalls Moment He Told His Wife He Wanted to Have Kids: She Started 'Sobbing'

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Aaron Paulis looking back at the emotional moment he told his wife he wanted to be a dad.

In a new interview withEsquire, theBreaking Badstar, 42, reveals that he shared the news withwife Laurenat a screening of a J.J. Abrams’sStar Warsmovie after years of maintaining that he didn’t want kids.

“The words are coming across the screen at the beginning, and I go, ‘Hey, babe. Can I tell you something? I want to have babies,’ " Paul recalls. “I go, ‘I want to have babies with you. I want to have babies. I want to be a dad. I want you to be a mom,’ and she starts sobbing.”

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In a 2020 interview withHaute Living, Paul said that becoming a parent instantly shaped him in ways he never thought possible.

“Fatherhood has definitely changed me,” he said. “Having a child is theclosest thing to magic that anyone can have. I see why people rush home to be there when they get home from school. You don’t want to miss any of it.”

source: people.com