Ryan Reynolds Says He Wants To ‘Destigmatize’ Mental Health For Daughters James, 6, Inez, 4, Betty, 1

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Ryan Reynolds, 44, is opening up about the importance of mental health and being a “model” for his daughters.

The actor talked about having anxiety and how he thinks more people need to have a conversation about the struggles people go through, in a new interview with ET on Saturday. “Part of it is that I have three daughters at home and part of my job as a parent is to model behaviors and model what it’s like to be sad and model what it’s like to be anxious, or angry,” the father of James, 6, Inez, 4, and Betty, 1, told the outlet while promoting his new movie The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. “That there’s space for all these things,” he added. “The home that I grew in, that wasn’t modeled for me really.