Joseph Baena is an American film

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, bodybuilder, fitness model and

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. Despite being the son of

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, he chose not to use the same last name.

Early life

Joseph Baena is the son of

and Mildred Patricia "Patty" Baena. He is the stepson of Rogelio Baena, and the maternal half-brother of Jackie Rozo of his mother's side. He is the paternal half-brother of Katherine, Christina,

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, and Christopher Schwarzenegger of his father's side. His paternal half-brother Christopher was born 5 days earlier on September 27, 1997. He is of Austrian and Guatemalan descent. In 2010, at the age of 13, Baena first learned the identity of his real biological father, which was revealed the day after Schwarzenegger ceased to be

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. In 2011, he achieved some notoriety in

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s when Schwarzenegger admitted conceiving him in an adulterous

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with a former household staffer, Mildred Baena, while he was married to Maria Shriver. In 2019, Baena graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Career

Baena was featured on the cover of the '' Men's Health'' March 2022 issue, highlighting his fitness practices and his familial bonding with his father. He is a weight lifter. A gift from his father, ''The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding'' coauthored by him, assisted his training. Baena is a contestant on the 31st season of ''

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''. Trying to distance himself from prejudgements, and creating his own grounds, "the young Arnold son says that he is not just breaking down the 'dance floor' but is also 'breaking the barriers in his family.'" His body type, flexibility and fitness training are not particularly well adapted to dancing, so he personally foresees challenges. He offered the opinion that physical fitness became his watchword because, "I couldn't keep up with the other guys." In a podcast interview, he confessed that he was both unfit and bullied. In college, he had an

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: "I was like the chubby kid in my… crew, and, um yeah. It wasn't until I joined swim my sophomore year…” When he could not run, leaving him unfit for soccer and basketball, he settled on joining the swim team. Since 2022, Baena has been a real estate agent at Aria Properties. He expressed an interest in a real estate career on Instagram in May 2021.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Notes

Citations

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External links

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1997 births 21st-century American male actors American bodybuilders American male film actors American male models American male television actors American people of Austrian descent American people of Guatemalan descent American real estate brokers Brentwood School (Los Angeles) alumni Hispanic and Latino American male actors Hispanic and Latino American male models Hispanic and Latino American sportspeople Living people Male actors from California Male actors from Los Angeles Male bodybuilders Male models from California Models from Los Angeles People from Brentwood, Los Angeles Schwarzenegger family Sportspeople from Los Angeles