“My job as a parent is to celebrate [my children] and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be. And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”

Charlize is also mum to another adopted daughter, five-year-old August.

Jackson was adopted in the States

Jackson Theron was born in January 2012 in the United States and was adopted by Charlize soon after, although she only officially announced the news in March of that year.

At the time, South African-born Charlize received a lot of flak from fans and media outlets in her home country for not adopting locally, especially considering the country’s struggles with homelessness, poverty and HIV.

Today’s LGBT celebrities

Charlize eventually told NPR in 2019 that she had no parameters when planning to adopt. “I wanted to believe that somehow my child would find me in the way that we were just meant to be,” she said. “So I wasn't specific with anything … In whatever country they would allow me as a single woman to adopt, that’s where I filed.”

Charlize’s emotional confirmation

While there had been much speculation surrounding Jackson in the press, Charlize eventually confirmed she was raising a transgender daughter during a 2019 interview with Jimmy Fallon.

“I grew up in a country where people lived with half-truths and lies and whispers and nobody said anything outright, and I was raised very specifically not to be like that,” she said.

5 celebrity parents vocally supportive of their LGBTQ+ children

“I am raising two beautiful proud black African girls and I want them to find themselves and not necessarily push my ancestry on them,” she confirmed to the talk show host in May.

Charlize wants people to use the correct pronouns

As Jackson is slowly growing up in her own skin, her proud mother has spoken out about pronouns and the importance of using the correct ones.

“I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her,” the actress told Pride Source.

Marvel to High School Musical: 5 Disney+ shows telling LGBT stories

“I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun. It really hurt her feelings. I don’t want to be that mum.”

Jackson knew at age 3

“I thought she was a boy too, until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’” Charlize revealed to Daily Mail.

STYLE LGBTQ+ Series: Queer voices

Understandably, it might take a bit more time before we fully get to know Jackson. Charlize admitted to Pride Source: “My daughter’s story is really her story, and one day, if she chooses, she’ll tell her story.”

Want more stories like this? Sign up here. Follow STYLE on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter .