Jaden Smith: ‘I was a vampire, for real. I could not expose myself to the sun’

Here are some photos of Jaden Smith and the Smith family at this weekend’s 26th Annual Environmental Media Awards. When I think of the Smith family, I don’t necessarily think of environmentalism, although Jaden in particular does have an association with JUST Water,an anti-plastic-water-bottle campaign and paper-bottle company. The Smiths look nice in these photos and is it wrong to think that when all is said and done, Jaden and Willow actually do have “model good looks”? Like, I’m not even mad at this point that they’re getting modeling contracts. I think it’s completely justified.

“During a period of my life, I was Gothic… I was only wearing black and I was hiding from the sun because I was a vampire. I was a vampire, for real. I could not expose myself to the sun and I was only wearing black trench coats. Now I’m not a vampire, I’m out of this phase… I open myself up to wear more colorful things, to go out in daylight. I share much more mixed energy.”

Well, many of us go through goth stages when we’re younger. I never went so far as to self-identify as a vampire, although I did read vampire stories (Anne Rice, not Stephenie Meyer) and wear all-black and love all things goth. But to go so far as to not go out in daylight because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re a vampire? That’s some high-level pretending. These Smith kids… they’re so much fun. I’m honestly charmed by the fact that Jaden thought he was a vampire.