“Terrified” by the Fear of Being a Nun, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Ex-Wife Maria Shriver Made an Innocent Request to God Every Day, Interview 1989

Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s ex-wife, Maria Shriver, once opened up about what she feared the most during her high school days. Shriver is a Catholic Christian and went to a convent school to receive her high school education. Growing up with nuns and learning their stories instilled a peculiar fear in the young Maria Shriver.

Shriver appeared in an interview in 1989, wherein she shed some light on her childhood days. She shared stories of what it was like growing up with four elder brothers and studying in an all-girls school.

Maria Shriver opened up about her childhood fear

In 1989, former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver appeared on the David Letterman Show. Talking about her school days, she adorably demonstrated how she prayed to God, asking for one particular thing. Going to an all-girls school, Shriver feared she would grow up to become a nun one day. She said, “I spent a lot of my high school and junior high school praying that I would not become a nun. That was real. I was really terrified for a long time that I would be a nun.”

Explaining how that fear came about, she said, “All the nuns used to say ‘Well I was walking out of church one day…all of a sudden I saw God and that changed my life and I became a nun.'” This made little Shriver think the same thing could happen to her too.

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Closing her eyes and hiding her face with her hands, she continued, “So I would walk out of church every Sunday and say ‘Please God, don’t come to me.’ Like that…he never came.” Further, in the interview, Shriver detailed what being a sister of four tall brothers was like.

The American royalty got beaten up a lot

Maria Shriver’s uncle was the former President of the United States, John F Kennedy. They were treated as American royalties, and so were their close relatives. However, Shriver claims to have had a very normal childhood. Talking about her brothers, Shriver revealed that she got beaten up a lot.

“I don’t know, kind of normal kid. I have four brothers, so I got beaten up a lot. I’m the kind of, all of them are much taller than me and they are the kind that you know sit on your chest and do pink belly and titty twisters,” Maria Shriver told David Letterman.

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While her four brothers in a way helped her toughen up, Shriver’s fear never came to life since she eventually chose to get married to bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.