Popular American actress Zoe Saldana has revealed that her husband, Italian artist Marco Perego, adopted her name in reversal of tradition after the two secretly married in 2013.
Saldana told Instyle magazine during an interview that comes out on June 15, 2015 that she had doubts about the move, but her husband was confident.I tried to talk him out of it. I told him, ‘If you use my name, you’re going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world’, but Marco looks up at me and says, ‘Ah, Zoe, I don’t give a sheet.’
Saldana commented on Facebook about the issue, urging men to defy gender stereotypes.
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Why is it so surprising, shocking- eventful that a man would take his wife’s surname? Women have never been asked if its ok for them to give up their names — why doesn’t that make the news? Men, you will not cease to exist by taking your partner’s surname. On the contrary — you’ll be remembered as a man who stood by change. I know our sons will respect and admire their father more because their father lead by example.
The couple had twins boys in November 2014, and Saldana has spoken about the challenges and changes that motherhood brings in the interview. Saldana has acted in top films such as Avatar (2009), Star Trek (2009) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
