- Pat Benatar is an iconic vocalist from the 1980s, astir well-known for her opus ‘Love is simply a Battlefield.’
- She’s been joined to Neil Giraldo since 1982.
- The mates person 2 gorgeous daughters.
- Pat is 1 of the featured performers astatine the 2023 iHeart Music Awards.
Pat Benatar is 1 of the defining voices of the 1980s. With songs similar “Heartbreaker,” “Shadows of the Night, “We Belong,” and “Invincible,” the New York native’s euphony was the soundtrack for a generation. Yet, portion she was topping charts with “Love Is A Battlefield,” she was already winning the warfare of the bosom with Neil Giraldo, the antheral she joined successful 1982. The couple has remained unneurotic ever since and welcomed 2 daughters into the world: Hana Giraldo and Haley Giraldo.
“I person antithetic reasons for the mode that I respond to things present that I person kids,” Pat told Believer in 2003. “I person to enactment them retired there, and past I person to worry. I effort to bash the champion I can, but past I person to interest astir immoderate shmuck that she meets and she falls successful emotion with, and did his parents bash the champion they could do? And what’s their story?” Pat described motherhood “like the Peace Corps… determination was a commercialized connected TV erstwhile I was a kid astir joining the Peace Corps. It said it was ‘the hardest occupation you’ll ever love.’ This is what parenting is, arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin’ Peace Corps. Because you don’t emotion doing this—this is the happening you emotion the astir successful your life, it’s the champion happening you ever do.”
With decades of entertaining nether her belt, Pat continues to wow audiences. She’s adjacent a featured performer astatine the 2023 iHeart Music Awards connected March 27, 2023. She’ll stone the signifier with her hubby alongside chap musicians, similar Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, and P!nk, who is receiving the Icon Award, per a press release.
Here’s the scoop connected Pat Benatar’s kids:
Hana Giraldo
Born connected March 12, 1994, Hana Giraldo is Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s youngest daughter. She is simply a singer, songwriter, and actress, per her Instagram Bio. “I conjecture my upbringing was antithetic from the mode astir kids turn up. I learned the concern precise young,” she told Loop. “I traveled a lot. It was a blessing, but it was mean for me. I didn’t cognize thing different than going to your mom’s shows each time oregon surviving connected a circuit bus.” Hana is besides a societal media influencer, with implicit 700,000 followers connected Instagram.
“I was primitively funny successful fashion,” Hana told Loop, explaining she started retired designing customized t-shirts. After connecting with immoderate societal media people, she starred successful a video, “and it turned retired I was really precise bully astatine it.” While collaborating with Lele Pons, Hana grew her pursuing from 0 to 500k followers practically overnight.
“I was blessed to person parents who ever enactment my sister and maine first,” she told About Insider. “They ever taught america to beryllium kind, humble, and strong. They made it wide that this was their work, not their life. We were their life. So, I grew up arsenic my ain person. This did not specify maine successful immoderate way.”
Hana was 1 of the 8 personage children formed successful 2022’s Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules, an E! world tv bid that enactment these celebrated children connected a Colorado ranch. Hana starred alongside Austin Gunn (dad Billy Gunn,) Taylor “Tay” Hasselhoff (dad David Hasselhoff,) Jasmin Lawrence (dad Martin Lawrence), Myles O’Neal (dad Shaquille O’Neal), Redmond Parker (dad Ray Parker Jr.,) Harry James Thornton (dad Billy Bob Thornton) and Ebie (dad Eazy-E), per PEOPLE.
Haley Giraldo
Born connected February 16, 1985, Haley Giraldo is the eldest girl of Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. Like her sister, Haley took a stab astatine world television. She was portion of E! ‘s 2005 Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive. The amusement featured Kourtney Kardashian, George Foreman III, Noah Blake (son of Robert Blake), and others and ran for 8 episodes successful the autumn of 2005
“I privation [Haley] to person a life, and I privation her to fig it out,” Pat told Believer. “So, arsenic her parent, I person to assistance her fig retired wherever she wants to spell and if she wants to instrumentality a twelvemonth disconnected and decide, that’s good with me. … They’re my priority, they person to be, and they ever volition be. I person to bash them first.”
Haley is champion known for being a societal media presence. She is besides the woman of exemplary and fittingness teacher Matt Williams. The mates reportedly wed successful 2017, and successful April 2021, she wished him a blessed day with a saccharine message. “You are the top dad, husband, and champion person I could’ve ever asked for. Loving you is effortless. Thank you for loving maine truthful hard. I emotion you, my saccharine sexy husband, and americium SO thankful you were born.”
Haley and Matt are the arrogant parents of 2 daughters: Lola Ford and Stevie James. All 4 posed unneurotic successful a November 2021 Instagram station – “Thankful for this household we made” – and Haley had her daughters articulation her, Hana, and their parent for a beauteous Mother’s Day station successful May. “Thank you to my girls for making maine a mama. I emotion being yours… I’ve ne'er felt this benignant of emotion before, and I emotion you sooooooo much,” wrote Haley.
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