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Chris Pratt and Anna Faris’ son Jack is 12 — and the proud dad paid tribute to his eldest child with a series of rare photos of the preteen.
“Happy Birthday to my wonderful son Jack. I thank God every day for you sweet boy,” the Guardians of the Galaxy star, 45, wrote via instagram on Saturday, August 17. “You are so smart, hilarious, kind, thoughtful, trustworthy and tough. I love you so much kiddo. Twelve!? I honestly can’t believe it.”
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Pratt — who is also dad to daughters Lyla, 4, and Eloise, 2, with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger — shared multiple photos of Jack feeding, cuddling and spending time with farm animals.
Faris, who was married to Pratt from 2009 to 2018, gave fans a rare glimpse into Jack’s life earlier this year, quipping that her son “told me that he has an armpit hair.”
Still, the Scary Movie star said genuinely, “I think I’m really loving this age.”
For his part, Pratt — who is currently expecting Baby No. 3 with a pregnant Schwarzenegger — has also gushed about Jack throughout the years, memorably defending his family after people interpreted one of Pratt’s posts as major shade toward Faris.
“I said something like, ‘Find someone who looks at you the way my wife looks at me.’ And then I gave her some s*** in the thing and said, ‘But I love you. I’m so thankful for my wife — she gave me a beautiful, healthy daughter.’ And then a bunch of articles came out and said, ‘That’s so cringeworthy. I can’t believe Chris Pratt would thank her for a healthy daughter when his first child was born premature. That’s such a dig at his ex-wife,'” the Parks and Rec alum recalled in an June 2022 interview with Men’s Health.
“And I’m like, That is f***ed up. My son’s gonna read that one day. He’s nine. And it’s etched in digital stone,” he added. “It really f***ing bothered me, dude. I cried about it. I was like, I hate that these blessings in my life are — to the people close to me — a real burden.”
