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Kevin Costner is currently promoting his latest film, Swing Vote, a political comedy opening August 1. In a recent article with Parade, the 53-year-old actor explains how he found love again with his wife, Christine Baumgartner, 33, and their 1-year-old son, Cayden. The interview took place at the couple's California beachfront home. Apparently, it is the most baby-proofed home one could ever imagine and it took Kevin 10 minutes to undo the plastic baby lock on the guest toilet seat! On including his child into his busy life: “I don’t think you should close off your life from your children. And clearly, I don’t.” He laughs. “If Cayden were 5 years old, he could sit right here in the living room and listen to us talk. If he started interrupting, I’d say, ‘No, that’s not how talks go between people. We’re talking, and if you want to ask a question, you wait and ask during the gaps.’ I think you should include your children in everything you can, even if they are too young to absorb it all.” Good to his word, Kevin had Cayden and Christine on the set of his new movie as often as possible. On how Christine wanted children and Kevin was reluctant to have more at first: Kevin and Christine dated on and off for six years. “Christine wanted a child, but I was afraid I couldn’t be an effective father. She said, ‘I’m about children. If you want to be with me, if you want to get married, you should know that’s part of my makeup.’ So here I was, confronted with real love again. I heard it. I knew it was love. One day, I woke up and thought, ‘Am I going to lose a beautiful woman who is willing to be with me to my very last breath because I am afraid to say yes to a child?’ That’s all it took. I decided that I was not going to miss out on love. Sometimes you learn that the thing you’re most afraid of in life is the thing that will save your life.”

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