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Shawn Johnson East Gets Tattoo Tribute For All 3 Kids!
As Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson East navigates beingness with girl Drew, 5, and sons Jett, 3, and Bear, 14 months, she's learned that raising kids successful the spotlight is simply a cautious balancing act.
So it's a bully happening the jock is virtually 1 of the champion successful the world.
That's not to accidental the 33-year-old—who won golden successful equilibrium beam astatine the 2008 Summer Games successful Beijing, and collected 3 metallic medals for her level regular and the squad and all-around competitions—feels she ever scores a cleanable 10.
Take a caller Waffle House outing adjacent their location successful Nashville.
Out with hubby Andrew East and their brood aft church, "Two antithetic girls came up and asked for pictures, astir apt 8, 9 oregon 10 years old," Shawn recounted successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "Drew was truthful confused, and she's like, 'Mommy, wherefore did they privation a representation with you?'"
Truthfully, said Shawn, she's inactive cooking up an answer.
"I'm not ashamed," she stressed of receiving attraction for her diversion achievements. "It’s the astir arrogant I've been when I was successful that career."
But arsenic she works retired however precisely to explicate fame to her kids, "Trying to marque it not astir Mommy and it doesn't alteration thing is thing I'm trying to fig out."
Most crucially, "I don't privation her to deliberation it entitles america to anything," Shawn stressed. "I conscionable privation to navigate it successful the close way."
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But she required nary specified cautious contemplation erstwhile Drew landed her archetypal cartwheel connected the beam. As you mightiness imagine, the gymnast flipped.
"I don't mean this successful a harsh way, I could attraction little if it's gymnastics," Shawn recalled of the moment, noting that erstwhile NFL longsnapper Andrew feels the aforesaid astir their kids perchance taking to the gridiron 1 day. "There's thing truthful incredibly endearing and makes you consciousness truthful arrogant arsenic a parent, to spot them really excited astir something, and to travel location and beryllium like, 'Oh, Mom, I did this.'"
While the thought that Drew could beryllium following successful her chalk-dusted steps is sweet, "To spot them arrogant of themselves is the top feeling successful the full world," insisted Shawn. "So it was truthful overmuch little astir gymnastics oregon the beam oregon cartwheel oregon whatever, arsenic it was that she was truthful excited to archer maine astir something. Just being capable to observe that for her and observe that for our kids is what I love."
Learning however to foster each of her kids' passions "is truthful challenging," Shawn acknowledged. "And it's thing that you genuinely person to intentionally enactment connected each azygous day."
But erstwhile it comes to different monumental parenting task—ensuring they substance up with capable steadfast nutrients—she's unlocked a spot of a cheat code.
After years of piecemealing unneurotic vitamins, probiotics and different nutrients for her small ones, Shawn floated the thought for a kid-focused greens pulverization to Beam's co-founder Matt Lombardi, known amended arsenic Uncle Matt to Drew, Jett and Bear.
"He ended up creating thing for my children, not to beryllium mass-produced," she said of the vitamin-, folate-, calcium-, and zinc-packed powder. And aft overmuch tinkering, the Kids All-in-One Superpowder her children person been adding to their nightly cocoa beverage for months present is disposable for others to purchase.
As for the trial audience, "They emotion it," Shawn said of Drew and Jett, "and they adjacent cognize it's their vitamins but they person ne'er questioned that. They conscionable privation their cocoa milk."
Jessica Steddom courtesy of Beam Kids
Want your ain dose of sweetness? You'll flip for these adorable pics of Shawn and her sporty brood.
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Welcome Baby Bear
Shawn and Andrew look with their 3rd baby, son Bear, successful December 2023.
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Baby No. 3
Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East welcomed their 3rd kid connected Dec. 12, 2023.
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Moment With Daddy
The erstwhile NFL subordinate already has a saccharine transportation with babe No. 3.
Gabrielle Renee Hopkins / @gabriellehopkins
Sibling Bonding
The newborn shared a hug with large sister Drew, calved successful 2019, and member Jett, calved successful 2021.
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Bear-y Cute
The gymnast captioned this cute changeable of her thirdborn with the carnivore emoji.
Family of Four
Shawn and Andrew, who tied the knot successful 2016, posed with Drew and Jett. She captioned the 2022 portrait, "Just the Hulk and his family."
A House Divided
For Halloween 2023, the guys chose their fighters arsenic the girls went for magical vibes.
Taking After Dad
"Well… can’t marque this up," Shawn wrote successful August 2022. "Little dude has a caller favourite toy. Giggles, smiles, won’t enactment it down."
Red, White and Baby Blue
The fam was acceptable for fireworks connected July 4, 2022.
Pool Time
Shawn and Andrew relaxed with a aquatics alongside their kids.
Struttin' Her Stuff
Drew modeled her one-piece swimsuit during a household excavation day.
