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While chatting with PEOPLE about his ongoing partnership withMoon, which includes the design of a newplatinum toothbrush, the NFL wide receiver opened up aboutlife as a new dadto 8-month-old son Zydn.
“For the longest time, I always knew Iwas going to be a fatherbecause of the way that I love kids. They’re close to my heart,” says Beckham Jr., who became a dad shortly after his former team, the Los Angeles Rams,won the Super Bowlin February 2022.
Beckham Jr., 29, and girlfriend Lauren Woodswelcomed their first child togetherdays after the big win — and the first-time dad says he’s been “all in” with daddy duty ever since.
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“It was thebiggest blessing of my life. I always knew that it would be, but it really hit different when I was actually holding him,” he says, adding thatthe couple’s home birthfelt “sacred.”
“When i first met him and looked into his eyes — his very soulful eyes, very much like mine — you could tell he didn’t know anything about the world … it’s just happiness and joy,” Beckham Jr. recalls.
“There’snothing better for me than my son. I have been waiting on him for a very long time. I’m all in. I change the diapers. I get up in the middle of the night,” he adds. “His mom is still breastfeeding so sometimes I get that duty off, but [sometimes] it’s bottles in the middle of the night.”
“I’m pretty sure it started with floss sticks all the way back when I used to carry them around in my little pocket,” he says of his dedication to oral hygiene. “I just had this obsession with keeping my teeth clean. It became organic working with Moon and everything felt super aligned.”
source: people.com
