Matt Damon didn't expect to have to assume a parental role before he even got married. But he went for it anyway. "I jumped into the deep end with Lucy," he told Parade in 2011. "I mean, Alexia was already 4. I was an extra dad." Damon never second-guessed the relationship with Luciana Barroso because of Alexia. "Some guys might have been different, they might think it's complicated, but for him it wasn't," she told Vogue Australia.

For Damon, it was simple because there were no gray zones. "There was never a choice. It was just the way it was, and I was happy for that," Damon told Hello! Canada in 2010. And Damon fell in love with Alexia right away. "The only way I can describe it — it sounds stupid, but — at the end of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas,' you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full; it's just full all the time."

Whenever he talks about Alexia, he refers to her as his own. He even has her name tattooed on his arm, along with his other daughters' and wife's. Damon has always been the one behind the milestone lessons. He is, for example, the one who taught Alexia how to drive. "My oldest daughter just got her license yesterday," he told USA Today in 2015. "She would drive last year just to school every morning. We'd get in the car and drive."

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