Kate
Beckinsale and Michael Sheen are such proud parents, they can hardly contain
themselves!
The former
couple celebrated their daughter Lily’s college acceptance news with exuberance
this week, embracing in an adorable photo posted to Kate’s Instagram page on
Thursday.
“The appropriate fatherly response when you find out your
girl got into college: burst into tears, drop everything, rush over and pick up
everyone even remotely involved,” Kate wrote, captioning side-by-side
snaps of Michael joyfully sweeping her and their 17-year-old right off the
floor.
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The actors and “Underworld” co-stars dated for eight years before splitting in 2003, when Lily was 4. Since then, they’ve appeared to be amicable co-parents, with Kate even publicly approving of Michael’s girlfriend, Sarah Silverman.
“Sarah’s such a fantastic woman,” the 43-year-old told Stylist magazine back in May. “I love her, and Michael and I have gotten on for years now. I’ve known him since I was 22, we’re basically family. … It’s important as a teenager to have good women in your life building up the fabric of your experience of becoming a woman. Even if Sarah wasn’t Michael’s girlfriend I’d want her to be in that.”
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As for Lily’s next chapter, Kate is encouraging the college-bound teen to spread her wings.
“@lily_beckinsale, we are so unbelievably proud of you,” Kate added in her post. “Fly fly fly.”
— Erin Biglow
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