Celeb Parents On Santa, Tooth Fairy & Easter Bunny

Sep 2, 2010 by JENNY SCHAFER
Despite her best efforts, Salma Hayek-Pinault can't convince Valentina, 2, that there is a Santa
Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick celebrate the spirit of Santa in their home
The Gosselin Eight don't believe in Santa anymore
Santa doesn't skip the White House!
Bindi Irwin gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy when she loses a tooth
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson celebrates Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny at his house
Ali Landy recently introduced Estela to the magic of the Easter Bunny

Some of our favorite celebrity parents sound off of the spirit of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.

Read below and look through our slideshow to see who still believes in the magic.

Do your kids believe?

  • Salma Hayek-Pinault & François-Henri Pinault:

Salma Hayek-Pinault says that her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Valentina doesn't believe in Santa Claus.

No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2 1/2. I refuse to give it up," Salma says. "I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe. There's nothing I can say to make her believe in Santa Claus. I'm hopeful that she's too young to believe in Santa Claus and, in a year or so, she'll believe in it, especially because it's always a great tool for blackmail when you say, 'If you don't do this, Santa Claus isn't going to bring you anything.'"

  • Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick:

Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick are parents to three kids: son, James Wilke, 7 1/2, and 1-year-old twin girls, Tabitha and Lortetta. The Parker-Brodericks celebrated the twins' first Christmas last December. Read below to see if SJP believes in keeping the spirit of Santa live in their family:

When I was growing up, we had a naked tree on Christmas Eve, meaning it was unadorned," the Sex and the City star said. "And then those of us who still believed in Santa Claus—which all my children still do—would go to bed, and when we woke up in the morning, the tree was decorated. We presumed Santa did that in his spare time. And the tubes from the wrapping paper were left under the tree—which were called doot-de-doos—and we were told that's what Santa left to let us know that he had been there to wrap our presents and decorate our tree. And we believed it. And in my house we still do it every year."

  • Kate Gosselin:

Reality TV star Kate Gosselin doesn't have any believers amidst her eight kids: twins Cara and Mady, 9 1/2, and 6-year-old sextuplets Joel, Leah, Alexis, Hannah, Aaden and Collin.

They don’t believe in Santa Claus,” a friend of the family says. “Mady and Cara ruined it for the sextuplets and told them a few years ago that Santa wasn’t real, and that their presents come from Mommy and Daddy. The sextuplets are the ones at school who tell the other kids there’s no Santa Claus.”

  • Barack & Michelle Obama:

Santa still comes to the White House! Two years ago, the First Lady opened up about her girls - Malia, now 12, and Sasha, now 9 - who still believed in St. Nick:

Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she's a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, "Ma, I know there is a Santa because there's no way you'd buy me all that stuff."

  • Terri Irwin:

The late Steve Irwin and his wife Terri had two children together: Bindi, now 12, and Bob, 6 1/2. A few years ago, Terri talked about how Bindi is a normal kid who still gets visits from the Tooth fairy, amidst her busy Hollywood career:

She’s been comfortable with cameras and filming her whole life. There is nothing abnormal about her life. The tooth fairy brings her money for her teeth when they fall out. We have Christmas like everybody else. She goes to school here at the zoo. We have a teacher, Miss Emma, who goes everywhere with us. Bindi likes Britney Spears, and she loves the pop star Pink. She's a normal kid."

  • Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson:

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson starred in the film The Tooth Fairy. The 38-year-old WWE persona-turned-actor revealed if his own daughter, 9-year-old Simone, still believes in the Tooth Fairy:

I want to be careful what I say because she might just read this. Let's put it this way. I have been in the room when the Tooth Fairy has taken a tooth from under her pillow, but then I walked out the room very quickly because I didn't want to look at the Tooth Fairy. I got scared."

He went on to talk about his own Tooth Fairy memories:

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money. Now, with inflation, I guess maybe the price has gone up and sometimes there's more money under the pillow, but then sometimes it can be a treat, something cool. What if the Tooth Fairy left an iPod? That would be cool wouldn't it?"

He also talked about how his parents understood the power of the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny:

Even when times were tough, they really did a wonderful job of keeping the notion alive of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy, the spirit of what that means -- giving and giving back. I was really fortunate to have a mom and dad in my life who believed in my own potential, even when I didn't see it at that point. Now, I can look back and reflect and be grateful for those people in my life.

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  • Ali Landry:

Former beauty queen-turned-mompreneur, Ali Landy, recently introduced her 3-year-old daughter Estela to the magic of the Easter Bunny:

I can remember when I was a little girl my mom made me the greatest Easter baskets ever," she said. "We had to go and find them in the yard because the Easter Bunny left them. This year, I felt now’s the time to start doing these special things. So I did the Easter baskets, I got all the fun stuff, I hid it in the garden. We got together with friends – since we don’t have family here – and barbequed and did Easter egg hunts over the weekend. All of these things we’re trying to experience and expose her to.”

Do you promote Santa, the Tooth Fairy & the Easter Bunny in your home? Do your kids still believe?



 3 Comments

Santa Claus said:

I'm delighted that some still believe! My legal name is Santa Claus, and I'm a full-time volunteer adcocate for millions of vulnerable children. I'm also a Monk and Bishop, as St. Nicholas was many centuries ago. I believe that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ, not the crass, commercial, secular spectacle it has become in many places, and that the greatest gift one can give is love, not presents. Please visit TheSantaClausFoundation dot org and learn how you can help millions of vulnerable children in dire straits right here in the United States. Blessings to all, Santa Claus

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Salma Hayek's girl wear a lovly blue dress~~~

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Santa Claus said:

Well, my legal name is Santa Claus, and I serve as a full-time volunteer advocate for millions of vulnerable children in dire straits. I'm also a Christian Bishop and Monk, as St. Nicholas was many centuries ago. I imagine it will be embarrassing when children get older and discover their parents lied when they said there was no Santa Claus. Seeing is believing. Visit TheSanta dot im.

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