“I’d Hate To Be Your Age”: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Daughter Can’t Go Through the Same Pain As Her Mother Maria Shriver

A few weeks ago, legendary bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger lost his dear friend Jim Lorimer. As the bodybuilder is still coping with the loss of his friend, his ex-wife Maria Shriver is undergoing the same pain as him. While writing about death and old age in her recent blog, the famous journalist remembered her daughter’s not-so-pleasant words regarding Shriver’s old age.

Her daughter never wants to become like her mother and undergo the pain she goes through.

Why was Maria Shriver’s daughter upset about her age?

The famous American journalist Maria Shriver writes weekly blogs in her renowned newsletter – Sunday Paper. However, on Sunday, Shriver confessed that she found it difficult to pen down words for her essay, as she had lost her best friend, Carl Bendix, earlier this week.

Bendix was the Californian native’s closest friend who had moved away from the journalist just a few months ago. While undergoing such agony, Shriver talked about the words said to her by one of her daughters.

In the blog, Shriver recalled, “‘I’d hate to be your age and have to watch your friends start to die,’ and as many of you know all too well, it is hard. Really, really hard.” After seeing her “old” parents going through so much grief, Shriver’s daughter never wants to reach the age where she would be in a similar situation. However, Shriver countered her daughter’s view, by writing that death is unexpected and can come at any age.

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 “I feel like I’ve walked alongside grief many times, or it has walked alongside me. At times, it has taken me down. But at other times, I feel like we’ve made a truce,” wrote Shriver. The author’s words and tribute to her dear friend reminded many of Schwarzenegger‘s heartfelt message for his late friend.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger paid tribute to Jim Lorimer

On November 24th, 2022, the former bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, lost his long-term friend Jim Lorimer. The 96-year-old was the co-founder of The Arnold Classic. Together, he and Schwarzenegger worked towards making bodybuilding a significant sport in America.

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Soon after learning of his dear friend’s demise, Schwarzenegger took to Instagram to write a special message for Lorimer. In the post, Schwarzenegger acknowledged his friend’s efforts to make him become the “greatest” bodybuilder in history. He wrote, “Jim lives on in every member of his family, and he lives on in me. He’s one reason I would never call myself self-made.”

Schwarzenegger’s long and beautiful message brought tears to many people’s eyes, as the bodybuilding community mourned alongside the legend.