Arnold Schwarzenegger, 75, has revealed that his parents thought he might be gay because he had pictures of oiled-up bodybuilders on his bedroom wall during his teen years.
The Hollywood actor dished the dirt about his rise to stardom in his upcoming Netflix documentary, Arndol.
The bodybuilder and Terminator icon shared details about his childhood after growing up in the small Austrian town, Thal.
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Arnold revealed that as a teen, he put up posters of his bodybuilding idols, including famed bodybuilder Reg Park who played Hercules in a series of movies in the 1960s.
He shared that pictures of so many male bodybuilders caused concern for his mother, who soon started to speculate that her son was not attracted to women.
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Nostalgically reflecting on the moment, he shared in his documentary: “My mother got freaked out. She said, ‘All his friends have girls above their bed.
“My son doesn’t have one girl up here. Look at that. It’s only naked men, oiled-up. Where did we go wrong?”
Arnold also recalled, in a previous interview, the moment when his mother actually called the family doctor to ask if something was wrong with her child.
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He claimed that she said: “Is there something wrong? Is my son turning south here? All his friends have girls on the wall, and he has only men oiled up with little briefs on.’”
Elsewhere, Arnold’s extremely strict father was also unimpressed by his son’s obsession with weightlifting because it wasn’t “the typical thing”.
He recalled: “My dad was like, ‘You are looking in the mirror when you train. What is that all about? You are too into yourself… If you want to use your muscles, go chop wood.’”
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In the first episode of Arnold’s documentary, he spoke about what it was really like for him and his late brother to grow up as the son of a decorated Nazi soldier.
He revealed: “Our upbringing was very tough. The brutality that would be at home, the beatings that we got from our parents sometimes
Arnold is available to stream on Netflix from Wednesday, June 7.
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