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Continuing his media run to promote his new album Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke went to Howard Stern recently to talk about more than music, as the conversation centered more on his family life and his relationship with the beautiful Paula Patton. According to Thicke, as you’ve probably heard, Patton and Thicke started dating when they were 14 after meeting at a club for teens and hitting it off. And while things clearly worked out for the best (they’ve been together almost 20 years, married eight), initially, his race was an issue for the 2 Guns actress. He told Stern that after dating for a while, she still didn’t feel comfortable taking him with her to prom:

“The funny thing is, in high school she didn’t take me to prom because she didn’t want everyone to know she was with a white dude because she was president of the Black Student Union. I was a secret. She didn’t want to show up with a white guy. Funny right?”

Clearly she’s not ashamed of that baby anymore because they always seem so in love in public. Thicke also spoke on struggling to maintain his confidence in his talents and to be supportive of Patton’s pursuits soon after his career started and he put out his first album, A Beautiful World (back when he was just known as Thicke). With his long hair and hippy chic style, his debut album flopped, while her career was slowly but surely taking off:

“The first album that I put out was the hardest one to get out. I was so afraid of failing that I waited from 16 to 23, 7 years to even put the album out. So then I’m 23, I put the album out finally and what does it do? It doesn’t sell any records. It’s critically-acclaimed but doesn’t sell any records. So the balloon pops, everything that I was afraid of happening. Then, for the next 3 years I struggled with believing in myself and had some problems and started drinking. Tried yoga a few times with my wife, side-by-side. Trying to find God. Then right after my album [is released, my wife decides] that she wants to be an actress, instead of a filmmaker. Now she’s doing love scenes, and I have a failed album… but it ended up making me a good man. Luckily, after 10 years of that, I’m like, ‘Oh heck! Go have a good time, see you when you get home.’”

Thicke also discussed fatherhood, and for some reason, the conversation turned to his son, Julian Fuego, having blonde hair and why that is since Thicke and Patton don’t have a similar look:

“My kid, he looks like you and the cutest thing about my little kid is that he keeps looking in the mirror and saying ‘My hair is getting darker Daddy. It’s getting darker,’ and I’m like ‘Why do you want your hair to be dark?’ and he is like ‘To look like you and mommy.’ He’s got the blondest hair you’ve ever seen. Paula’s mom is blonde, my mom is blonde and I was a blonde baby, so I guess its a blonde gene.”

He could have taken me to prom any day…*swoons*

What do you think about his comments about his lady love and his son?

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