Life’s not easy being the child of an actor, and even less so if you’re the daughter of an action star.
Just ask Sistine Stallone, daughter of actor Sylvester Stallone.
In the season two premiere of their Paramount+ reality TV show, The Family Stallone, Sistine recalled the extreme measures the Rocky star took to protect his daughter when she was in primary school
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As the actor and his two daughters, Sistine, 25, and Sophia, 27, made their way to a class to learn self-defence with Defence Strategies Group, the middle child recalled, “he made us practice pepper spray each other.
“Oh my God, that’s so bad. He put a little knife in my backpack in fourth grade,” she said.
The actor, 77, was not taking this lightly, warning his daughters who both live in New York, “I’m not playing a game – these are the guys that have seen combat, faced death. This is the real deal.”
As the two teachers, who were former Navy SEALS, then threw punches with the girls, Sophia asked exasperatedly, “When am I ever going to be doing this in New York?”
“Every first date ever,” Sistine quipped in response.
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Stallone was there with his daughters – Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet, 21 – and wife Jennifer Flavin, 55.
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