Vin Diesel and girlfriend Paloma Jimenez celebrated their daughter‘s first birthday this week.    The proud dad and star of Fast and Furious recently spoke about being present for his baby’s birth.

It seems that he did it, in part, to defy his co-star Paul Walker‘s advice.

“I didn’t tell anybody (about the birth). I didn’t want cameras around us I wanted it to be as natural as possible. The only person I told was Paul Walker. And I said to Paul, ‘Should I be in the delivery room?’ and he says, ‘You know, don’t do it, you can’t stomach it.’

(But) it’s the best thing you’ll ever do in your life and, with that confidence, I marched into the delivery room and did everything but literally pull her out. I cut the umbilical cord. I was more present than I could’ve ever dreamed of (being) but the bonding that that allowed for with my daughter is priceless.”

Part of me wants to shame Paul for telling Vin that, and another part wonders if he did it to challenge Vin – in which case, it worked.   Vin really sounds like a great dad.  Lucky Paloma, and lucky baby!

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