Matt Damon jumped into parenthood the moment he tied the knot with Luciana Barroso. When the two met, Barroso was a single mother to four-year-old Alexia. “[T]hat was one of the things he loved, that I had a daughter […] Some guys might have been different, they might think it’s complicated, but for him it wasn’t,” she said in the Vogue Australia interview. Damon took to Alexia straight away and never looked back.
“The only way I can describe it — it sounds stupid, but — at the end of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas,’ you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full,” he explained. Damon and Barroso went on to have three other children together. They gave Alexia her first sister in June 2006, when they welcomed Isabella. Damon and Barroso expanded the brood two years later, with the birth of Gia in August 2008. Their third daughter, Stella, completed the family in October 2010.
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And just like that, the “Good Will Hunting” star ended up being the only guy in a six-person household. “I never expected to be surrounded by girls, but it’s great. …You never know which way life’s going to take you,” he told Today in 2012. In addition to keeping him on his toes, his daughters also taught him another big life lesson. “I’m learning so much, not the least of which is how much smarter girls are,” he quipped.
