- - Channing Tatum Says Daughter Everly, 12, Is a 'Full-on Teenager' Now as He Gives Update on Parenting: 'Wild Journey'

Hannah SacksJanuary 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM

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Channing Tatum is sharing an update on his daughter

The actor said his daughter Everly, now 12, has recently become a "full-on teenager"

Tatum shares his daughter with ex Jenna Dewan

Channing Tatum is sharing an update on his daughter.

The actor, 45, stopped by Today with Jenna & Sheinelle during a Tuesday, Jan. 20 episode and was asked by the two co-hosts how his 12-year-old daughter Everly is doing. Tatum, who shares his daughter with ex Jenna Dewan, says that his daughter has grown up so "fast" in the last few months.

"They say it happens fast, right? I felt like I left for two weeks to go do some press and I came back and it was the first two weeks of seventh grade and all the baby was gone," Tatum said of Everly.

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"It was just gone in two weeks. I thought I was going to have three months or four months of like watching it sort of fade away, but now she’s a full-on teenager now," he continued. "It’s beautiful but also like, you want to cry."

The proud dad went on to praise his daughter, calling her "so talented and clever. It’s a wild journey.”

This past October, Tatum appeared on an Oct. 9 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show and shared that he recently noticed his daughter Everly going through some changes as she approaches her teenage years.

"I don't know when yours started changing or if, but it's just happening for me," Tatum said, referring to Barrymore's two daughters, Olive and Frankie.

"Tell me everything because I have 13 and 11, so I'm sandwiching her," Barrymore explained.

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"She was always like, you know pretty opinionated, very strong willed, but now it's like just on a whole different level," Tatum said. "I got yelled at in an escape room yesterday. Like she's never yelled at me before."

"All I did I was like, 'I wonder what'...She's like, ‘Dad, don't touch that!' " Tatum recalled, yelling. "And I'm like, 'Whoa, what was that?' We're both trying to solve this problem and now I feel like we have to go to therapy because of that moment."

"Like, that was not you. Her eyes changed. Like they just went like shark black or something. It was crazy," he added.

That same month, the star appeared on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, where he described balancing his career with fatherhood as a "constant negotiation." Tatum told host Kelly Clarkson that he always has conversations with his daughter about any major roles.

"It's a balance and it's a constant negotiation," he told Clarkson. "I actually just had a conversation with my daughter on the way to school like two days ago because I'm trying to make some decisions on a movie to go do next year that's going to be in Australia and I won't get to see her for like almost two months."

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"I've never really done that other than on Roofman," he continued. "It was a conversation then as well because it was in North Carolina, ... and she's in middle school."

Tatum went on to say that this is his daughter's first time in a "big school," which comes with a lot more demand. He was struggling with the idea of leaving for the movie role because he wanted to be there for her.

"And I remember I was having the conversation about doing [Avengers: Doomsday] because [Avengers: Doomsday] was going to be in London," he said. "Same thing. It wasn't as long, but I was like, 'I don't know if I want to take it because I'm going to miss like the beginning of your middle school.' And she was like, 'No, Dad, you that's a really good part. I want you to go do that.'"

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