{"id":277496,"date":"2011-02-21T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/21\/carlos-leon-im-a-lenient-father-to-lourdes\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:12:21","slug":"carlos-leon-im-a-lenient-father-to-lourdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/21\/carlos-leon-im-a-lenient-father-to-lourdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Leon: I&#8217;m a lenient father to Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"81.4959687906\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link -->       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"76.8308823529\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT --><!-- PURGE: \/2011\/SHOWBIZ\/celebrity.news.gossip\/02\/21\/carlos.leon.lourdes.ppl\/index.html -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>Their relationship didn&#8217;t last, but Carlos Leon found the love of his life thanks to Madonna &#8212; their daughter Lourdes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--> <!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li> Like many smitten fathers, Leon admits he has a tough time being strict with Lourdes<\/li>\n<li> Besides wizards and vampires, Lourdes loves fashion and is a budding fashionista<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Sometimes she will give me a hard time about my clothes,&#8221; Leon says<!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>(<a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PEOPLE.com<\/a>)<\/b> &#8212; Their own relationship didn&#8217;t last, but Carlos Leon found the love of his life thanks to Madonna &#8212; their daughter Lourdes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m forever grateful to [Madonna],&#8221; Leon tells PEOPLE. &#8220;I have no regrets. I wouldn&#8217;t change anything. I got the best thing out of that relationship, and that&#8217;s my daughter. My daughter is everything to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like many smitten fathers, Leon, 44, admits he has a tough time being strict with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/archive\/article\/0,,20221608,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lourdes<\/a>, now 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a lenient dad,&#8221; says the personal trainer and actor, whose new film &#8220;Immigration Tango&#8221; came out Friday. &#8220;I&#8217;m very empathetic, and I&#8217;m good at listening to my daughter &#8230; I&#8217;m probably a bad dad when it comes to disciplining her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One area where he tends to be overly compromising? Her curfew. &#8220;I try to work with her on it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We settle on a time, say around 10 p.m., and she&#8217;s like, &#8216;How about 10:30?&#8217; And it eventually becomes 10:15.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leon says Lourdes isn&#8217;t dating yet, but knows it&#8217;s coming. &#8220;I&#8217;m dreading it so much, because she&#8217;s my little girl. I want her to stay young forever,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m already overprotective, so when the time comes, I will be ready to have a talk with the guy she brings through the door. He better be ready, because I&#8217;ll give him the rundown!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, he and his daughter bond by going on bike rides in New York City and hanging out at home, watching movies like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; and &#8220;Twilight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She loves to watch &#8220;Harry Potter.&#8221; It&#8217;s a favorite of hers. We can watch that 100 times &#8212; well, she can,&#8221; Leon says. &#8221; &#8216;Twilight&#8217; is also pretty big at our house. She likes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/robert_pattinson?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Pattinson<\/a>. She&#8217;s Team Edward all the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides wizards and vampires, Lourdes loves fashion and is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/archive\/article\/0,,20406734,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budding fashionista<\/a>. She even gives Dad a few pointers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes she will give me a hard time about my clothes,&#8221; Leon says. &#8220;I wore a pair of jeans once, and they weren&#8217;t as skinny as I usually wear them, and she was like, &#8216;Oh my God, Dad, those pants are ugly. Please change your pants.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>He adds with a laugh: &#8220;They were too bootcut, so I changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20467972,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See full article at PEOPLE.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- \/PURGE: \/2011\/SHOWBIZ\/celebrity.news.gossip\/02\/21\/carlos.leon.lourdes.ppl\/index.html --><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/cnn_showbiz\/~3\/BJwGEXrouAw\/index.html\" title=\"Carlos Leon: I'm a lenient father to Lourdes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Leon: I&#8217;m a lenient father to Lourdes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Their relationship didn&#8217;t last, but Carlos Leon found the love of his life thanks to Madonna &#8212; their daughter Lourdes. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Like many smitten fathers, Leon admits he has a tough time being strict with Lourdes Besides wizards and vampires, Lourdes loves fashion and is a budding fashionista &#8220;Sometimes she will give me a hard time about my clothes,&#8221; Leon says ( PEOPLE.com ) &#8212; Their own relationship didn&#8217;t last, but Carlos Leon found the love of his life thanks to Madonna &#8212; their daughter Lourdes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carlos Leon: I&#039;m a lenient father to Lourdes - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/21\/carlos-leon-im-a-lenient-father-to-lourdes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Carlos Leon: I&#039;m a lenient father to Lourdes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Their relationship didn&#039;t last, but Carlos Leon found the love of his life thanks to Madonna -- their daughter Lourdes. 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