![]() View full post on Instagram Where did your instincts come from? It wasn’t like, “Here, come back here and let’s play whatever game.” You got whippings when you did bad things. I mean, my dad was a typical strict Southern dad. I don’t think that was ever in the cards there. Would he ever dance with you and your sister or braid hair? Your own father sounds like he may have kept to stricter gender roles when it came to play. Still today, she wears the craziest stuff. But also, it was a really proud moment of going, “Okay, we all have to go through this you’re gonna have to go out in the world and figure this out.” And she did. That was the first time I saw her be self-conscious and it shattered my heart. I don't want to get laughed at.” And it just broke my heart, because she never before cared that people were looking. And she kind of panics and starts taking it off. We’re getting ready to go to school and right before we leave, she realizes what she has on. She just thought it was the funniest thing in the world. And she had this cape thing that when you held your arms out in it, you look like a slice of watermelon. She had a pair of leopard-print high tops that she wore 'til they had holes in them. It must have been the first or second week of preschool. One of the inciting things was an outfit moment-when she was really really young. I definitely didn’t lock myself in there. Tatum sat down with Men’s Health to chat about the dad things he’s figured out and the dad things he’s still improving on, which includes-no kidding-dancing.Ĭhanning Tatum Men's Health: On Instagram, you wrote how you accidentally locked yourself in your daughter’s room during quarantine … and then this book began?Ĭhanning Tatum: I would go into her room and look around. It was a strange moment where I was like, Okay, I can do this. And she felt really taken care of, that I was gonna be there until she fell asleep. When it came to the nighttime trial those years ago, it turned out going into her world was as simple as sitting down in her room. “So I just tried to connect to her by just going into her world and doing whatever it is that she does.” That meant hair braiding, blindfolded makeup sessions, and more than one Channing-sized Halloween unicorn onesie. “There’s no playbook,” Tatum says, of fathering a girl. “Because I sparkle,” the self-affirming refrain of the book, is thrown into doubt by teasing classmates and later re-affirmed and owned-both by father and daughter-in the form of glitter and dancing. Though the inspiration was Everly, those perils weren’t foreign topics to Tatum, who stuttered as a child, struggled in class with ADD and dyslexia, and was picked on during his first years in high school. The story features a young girl and her father and the perils of self-expression at school. The work, The One and Only Sparkella, is now a children’s book illustrated by Kim Barnes. Tatum spent quarantine part-time with Everly in Ojai, California, and part-time in L.A., where he started writing. It’s been a half decade of professional and emotional trial. ![]() Those same years also saw an amicable separation between Tatum and Jenna Dewan, Tatum’s co-star on Step Up, where the two met and first started dating they married in 2009. During that time, he’s been working on a passion project, his directorial debut alongside partner Reid Carolin, Dog-Tatum’s hardest role yet, he’s previously said. It’s been almost four years since Tatum appeared in a Hollywood production. From his backyard, his Dutch Shepard “Rook” wanders occasionally into the Zoom frame. He’s spending the afternoon playing with Everly, who is now almost 8. ![]() Tatum has recently moved into a new home, smaller, “cabin-like,” tucked into the canyons outside L.A. “I had no idea how to raise a daughter in L.A. “I’m a thick neck jock from the south, grew up in the woods, you know, jumping over rattlesnakes while running down a trail,” Tatum says. He was worried that things had changed, that he wouldn’t be able to connect with Everly in the way she needed. One night, one of the early nights when Channing Tatum became a single father and he and Everly were alone in the house and once again Everly could not fall asleep, he sat down by the door in her room. But to get Everly to sleep-this was the trial. When she slept, she slept like a princess, 12 hours a night, surely to the envy of every parent in every kingdom and every land. Everly Tatum was a night-time terror, though not when she slept. ![]()
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