In 2011, the Los Angeles Times sent shockwaves around the celebrity world when it revealed
that Arnold Schwarzenegger had fathered a love child with his family's longtime housekeeper,
Mildred Baena.
The scandal destroyed his decades-long marriage to Maria Shriver and tarnished the former
Governor of California's political career.
If there's one silver lining to the fallout from the scandal, it's that Schwarzenegger
and Baena's son, Joseph — who was 14 at the time his identity was revealed — has
managed to weather the storm with relatively few bumps and bruises.
Here's what Joseph Baena is up to today.
In May 2015, TMZ reported that Joseph had officially graduated from Frontier High School
in Bakersfield, California.
Schwarzenegger skipped his son's big day, according to the tabloid, to instead spend
time with his daughter, Katherine, in Santa Monica.
After high school, Joseph enrolled at Pepperdine University in Malibu, where, as of 2016, he
was majoring in business and business management and had reportedly been honored for student
philanthropy, according to the Daily Mail.
Joseph is also "pulling straight A's," according to his proud papa.
In October 2016, Joseph traveled to Germany to celebrate Oktoberfest and his 19th birthday
with his dad, who shared this photo on his Instagram.
Arnold wrote: "Great student, great athlete.
I'm proud of you and I love you!"
Despite the awkward way in which the world found out about his identity, Joseph has been
working steadily with his father to develop a strong and lasting bond.
Schwarzenegger, who initially spoke very little about his son after the scandal broke in 2011,
confirmed as much in an interview with Howard Stern in 2015.
"He's terrific and he totally understands the situation … It's a very tough situation
for him.
It's a very tough situation for my kids, very tough situation for my family.
It was tough for everybody.
But it has happened and now we have to figure it out, right?"
Considering his father got his start as a world-famous bodybuilder, it was perhaps inevitable
that Joseph would hit the gym, too.
And yet, it's still remarkable to see just how ripped this kid has already become.
In June 2016, TMZ obtained photos of Joseph and his dad at Gold's Gym in Venice, California,
describing the young man as "jacked like an up-and-coming Mr. Universe."
A month later, People spotted father and son riding bikes together.
In September 2016, Joseph starred in a video directed by his friend, Ben Hess, in which
he recreated part of the famous "Bad to the Bone" scene from Terminator 2.
" Broke a thousand hearts.."
"Before I met you.."
"Break a thousand more, baby…"
Of course, while Joseph looked like a natural in front of the camera, he's playing pretty
coy about whether he'll actually try to make the big leap to movies, at least when TMZ
asked him in June 2017 …
"I mean, we'll see, but I gotta go workout right now."
While Schwarzenegger has clearly moved on from his love-child scandal, he admitted to
Men's Journal in March 2017 that he still thinks about his years-long affair with Joseph's
mother "every so often."
"I can beat myself up as much as I want—it's not gonna change the situation.
So the key thing is, how do you move forward?
If I could, in reality, be Terminator, of course I would go back in time and would say,
'Arnold…no.'
You know, it's always easy to be smart in hindsight.
That's not the way it works."
Between beer-fests and workout sessions, it's clear that moving forward is the right direction
for Schwarzenegger and his successful young son.
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