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Arnold Schwarzenegger Refused To Financially Support His Son After He Finished College

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Published 00:27 14 Jul 2022 GMT+1

Arnold Schwarzenegger Refused To Financially Support His Son After He Finished College

Joseph Baena shares a few interests with his mega-star dad, but has landed on his own two feet after college with a different career choice.

Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang

Featured Image Credit: Joseph Baena/Instagram.

Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Celebrity

Rachel Lang
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Joseph Baena has followed in his footsteps in many ways.

But, when the Terminator star revealed to his 24-year-old son that his financial support ended after graduating college, Baena started down a bit of a different career path to make ends meet.

"I’m really grateful that my dad helped me get through college,” Baena told Essentially Sports.

"But right when college was done, it was just like, 'You go. You’re on your own.' I was like, 'Oh, s**t'."

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While Baena is an aspiring actor and a bodybuilder, he elected to move into real estate to support himself after finishing his studies.

"So yeah, I needed a job, and I was not getting any of the acting roles that I thought I was going to get, and like starting to get paid," the 24-year-old said.

"I was like, 'I need to do something', so I started interning at this real estate company."

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Arnie's son took up a gig at Los Angeles realty firm ARIA Properties.

He's still there to this day, discovering shortly after starting his internship that he has a bit of a knack for the whole real estate thing.

"I went in there. I was like, 'I want to just learn as much as possible while making some kind of income'," he told Essentially Sports.

"And then I enjoyed it and was like, 'Oh, I think I can do this pretty well'. So, I got my licence."

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For those of you who might be a tad confused about why Baena doesn't share his dad's iconic surname, that would be because he was the Terminator actor's secret love child.

Joseph is the son of Arnold and the Schwarzenegger family's former housekeeper Mildred Baena.

Mildred was reportedly pregnant with Joseph when Schwarzenegger’s ex-wife Maria Shriver was expecting their fourth child – a revelation that didn’t emerge publicly until 2011. 

In a new interview with Men’s Health, Baena revealed how news of his A-list father began to spread when he was in high school.

"I remember the day very vividly," he said.

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"I was in the eighth grade.

"Fifth or sixth period. And I get called out of class to leave.

"And my mom's there, and she's like, 'We gotta go – everyone is finding out about you and who your father is.'" 

Recently, Baena has also opened up about why he has chosen not to take on Arnie’s surname. 

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"Well I already have a last name, and I don't have a problem with my last name," he told Inside Edition,  

"I like my last name." 

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