When your kids lay down the law? Just go with it.
At least, that’s how Adam Sandler sees it when his daughters Sadie, 18, and Sunny, 15 — whom he shares with wife Jackie Sandler — encourage him to take his health seriously.
“They always look out for me and my health just like I used to with my dad,” Sandler told People on Tuesday. “You go, ‘Man, I want this guy around,’ so I used to scream at my dad to quit smoking, and my kids scream at me to just calm down and try to eat a little more like a normal person.”
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time the 57-year-old’s kids have weighed in on his wellness habits.
Sandler revealed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast earlier this month that his workout routine dwindled as the years went by.
“I used to take working out so serious … and now I can’t f–king do it,” he admitted to host Joe Rogan.
“I play hoop and then I eat,” he went on. “Every time I’m eating I’m going, ‘What are you doing, man? You don’t need to do this.’ I can’t stop, just got a little bit of thickness all over.”
However, it’s not as easy for the comedian to get back into the routine these days. Sandler even shared that Sadie wanted him to start working with the same trainer he had while filming the 2008 film “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.”
“Now it’s f—–g rough,” he confessed about getting into shape. “My kids, one daughter, Sadie’s always saying, ‘Dad, get the trainer from the Zohan. Why would you ever give that up? Why did you stop?’”
As Sandler told his eldest child, “It’s a lot of work.”
“I just can’t get back in there,” Sandler said. “She’s right about everything [but] I don’t promise her. I go, ‘Let me think about that; that’s a good idea.’”
But at one point, the “Grown Ups” star was able to put in the work.
“When I was 18 to 23, I hid it so hard,” he recalled with Rogan, adding he “looked good” while filming “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.”
As for why he doesn’t want to ring up his old trainer? As Sandler put it, “I got the best guy, the guy who did me for the “Zohan,” and I love him. It’s just that I see him and I love him so much that I go, ‘Let’s keep this a friendship. I don’t want it to ruin the friendship.’”
The “Happy Gilmore” actor is still staying active by playing basketball up to five times a week, which “keeps me OK.”
“I still don’t want to take my shirt off, but I play maybe four or five times a week where I get out there,” Sandler quipped.
But one thing is clear: the “Murder Mystery” star will always have his family by his side throughout his journey.
In fact, Sandler took a moment to praise his wife on their anniversary last June.
“Happy 20th my sweet Jackie! Your ‘I do’ was the best gift of my life,” he wrote via Instagram alongside their wedding photo at the time.
“My heart has been yours since the first second I saw you and I love and appreciate your devoted soul more and more each day. Us. The kids. Lets keep going and going babe,” he concluded. “Lots of love to give you. Always.”
