Mark Wahlberg Admits He Moved Family To Nevada So His Kids Could 'Pursue Their Dreams'

Oct 18, 2022 by apost team

Mark Wahlberg isn't only amazing as an actor but also an amazing family man as well. In fact, he is willing to do anything for his family.

With several different Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations under his belt, the American actor has plenty to be proud of. But there's one area of his life that he is most proud of — his family. 

In 2009, Wahlberg married his wife, Rhea Durham. Durham is an accomplished model and has been on the cover of French Vogue and Marie Claire. She even walked the runway in the 2000 and 2001 Victoria's Secret fashion shows. Together, the couple has four kids: Ella Rae, 19; Michael, 16; Brendan, 14; and Grace Margaret, 13. 

Over the years, Wahlberg has been outspoken about his love for his kids. He often shares hilarious stories and anecdotes about them in interviews and on social media. In an Instagram post on January 26, Wahlberg shared a photo of the family at his daughter's horseback riding meet. 

He paired the photo with a heartwarming caption that read, "Her brothers came out to support even though it was playoff weekend."

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Wahlberg said that he sometimes has to watch his kids' sports games from the car. He said that his kids often don't allow him to be seen with them around their friends. 

"Me being in the public eye, there are pros to that, but there's a lot of cons," he said.

"My kids wanna have their own identity, you know?" 

"I'm not allowed to get out of the car at football practice or a game. I gotta sit in the car and watch," he said. 

Walberg said that though he was upset at first, he wanted to do whatever he could to make his children happy. He said that it's important to him that his children can have a normal life, and he wants to protect them from the dangers of the entertainment world while he can. 

"At first I took it personally, because I wanna be there to support them, but supporting them is by making them feel comfortable in what they're doing and them having their own identity too," he said. "It's very difficult." 

Wahlberg is willing to do anything for his kids, even if he has to embarrass himself in the process. He said in a 2012 interview with Red Book that he plays with Barbies with his daughters and sometimes lets them do his makeup. 

"I'm game for playing dolls with the girls," Wahlberg said. "If they want to play Barbies, I'll do it!"

In the same interview, Wahlberg said that his daughters changed his perspective on what it meant to be a man. 

"Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women," he said.

"And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter."

Wahlberg made it clear that for him, his family is the most important thing in his life. 

"For me, family always comes first," he said.

"I would do anything to protect them." 

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But just recently, Mark made a life-changing decision for his family. 

Appearing on the CBS show 'The Talk,' Wahlberg opened up about why he decided to move to Nevada with his family.

Wahlberg admitted he wanted to take advantage of tax credit in Nevada and turn the state into the next Hollywood.

"I moved to Nevada where after this gubernatorial election, hopefully it will go to legislation and get a bill passed so we can get tax credit for the state – build a state-of-the-art studio here and make this Hollywood 2.0. I want to be able to work from home. I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting and I've only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there," he said.

But more than his dreams of making his Hollywood dreams come true, he wanted to give his family the best kind of life they could ever have.

"So, to be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams whether it be my daughter as an equestrian, my son as a basketball player, my younger son as a golfer, this made a lot more sense for us," he said.

"To go and to hopefully build a studio as well as a shoe factory and a factory for Municipal. So, we came here to just kind of give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids, and there's lot of opportunity here. I'm really excited about the future," he added.

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