Christian Bale poses with BOTH his kids in rare family photo with wife Sibi
Although the Hollywood couple are rarely seen out together, apart from the occasional red carpet, the actor, 51, and spouse, 55, made a rare exception while attending the Dolce & Gabbana's Alta Moda couture show and dinner on Monday.
While dressed in coordinating all-black ensembles, Bale, Blažić and their children Emmeline 'Luka', 20, and Joseph, 10, smiled for a photo with designer Domenico Dolce.
The group were pictured at the Fori Imperiali, Via Sacra site in Rome, Italy.
For the occasion, Luka, who walked the Alta Moda runway back in 2021, wore a black, sleeveless slip dress and her blonde locks in a sleek bun.
Her mom rocked a similar ensemble with lace sleeves and a long cross necklace.
Bale, who shaved his head for his role in The Bride earlier this year, looked handsome in a black tailored suit.
While arriving to the fashion show earlier in the day, the Batman held onto his wife's hand as their youngest walked by their side.
The lovebirds famously met through actress Winona Ryder while she and Bale were working on Little Women in 1994 and Sibi was Winona's assistant at the time.
The two hit it if off, eloped to Las Vegas in 2000.
Sibi has received two SAG Award nominations for performing on the stunt teams of the two-time Golden Globe winner's films Ford v Ferrari (2019) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Their daughter portrayed Infinity Conez Vendor in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and Le Mans Flower Girl in Ford v Ferrari (2019) thanks to the connections of her darling daddy.
Last year, reports surfaced that Bale was working on building a village to house siblings being fostered so they don't get separated by the system.
Bale, 50, has been working on his California village since the birth of his daughter in 2005 when he was 'stunned and mad' to discover how many children were in care in the state.
The actor, who had is big break at age 12 in Empire of the Sun, plans to build 12 houses and two studio apartments and a 7,000-square-foot community center.
Bale intends for the two studio apartments to help foster children transition into independent living as they age into adulthood.
Famous for his roles in American Psycho and Christopher Nolan's Batman series, Bale plans to complete the construction of his community by 2025.
The project has an estimated cost of $22 million and is situated next to a park in Palmdale, around 60 miles away from Los Angeles.
Bale is the co-founder of an organization called Together California, which is coordinating the development.
The organization's project is being developed under the leadership of executive director Tim McCormick and Bale's co-founder, UCLA's Dr. Eric Esrailian.
He called the village, which is the first of its kind in the state, 'something absolutely new, totally transformative and something completely needed.'
At an event in Antelope Valley yesterday, Bale stood with his wife, Sibi, and a group of elected officials and tight-knit supporters to break ground on the plan.
He presented the blueprint of the project, which has a single aim - to keep siblings in the foster system together under one roof.
'Imagine the absolute pain and the trauma of losing your parents or being torn from your parents, and then losing your brothers and sisters on top of that, that's no way to treat kids,' Bale said at the event.
'And so, we will be the hub for that. I hope that this village will be the first of many, and I hope that people, Californians and Angelenos, know to come join us in opening our eyes to what's happening right under our noses.
'These are our children, and we must help our children.'
The Oscar winner was technically born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but he became a naturalized US citizen in 2014, and he's lived in LA as far back as 1992.
Christian first found fame at age 13 starring as British upper middle class schoolboy James 'Jim' Graham who's locked up in a Chinese internment camp in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film, Empire of the Sun.
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