Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 22-Year Old Daughter Is All Grown Up And More Talented Than Her Dad Could Ever Dream Of Being
By
Michael Avery in
Entertainment
On 13th November 2016
Don’t cross Bianca Van Damme.
With her wide-set eyes and pouty lips, she looks like pinup perfection…and then she leaps into a perfect roundhouse kick.
“I want to show little girls and little boys that you can be physical and feminine. That you can cross your legs at the dinner table and then kick ass in a nice, feminine way,” says the 25-year-old West Village resident. “Kind of like how my father brought martial arts to the mainstream for my generation — I want to continue that legacy.”
It’s a bold statement for the actress and film producer.
After all, she spent her childhood telling her dad, Jean-Claude Van Damme, a k a “the Muscles from Brussels,” and mom, bodybuilding champion Gladys Portugues, that she “hated” martial arts.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme is a man of many talents. While he made it big in the public eye thanks to his acting roles, he is gifted in other arenas as well.
He has had a career competing in full contact karate.
He has had success in professional bodybuilding.
Van Damme has had a long and successful career in Hollywood and it now seems his daughter, Bianca, is following in her talented fathers footsteps.
Van Damme and then Gladys Portugues became proud parents to Bianca in 1990. Gladys was also a professional bodybuilder and Bianca certainly inherited that bodybuilding gene.
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Bianca has already followed her in dad's footsteps by trying her hand at acting. She went by the stage name of Bianca Bree before re-taking her famous dad's last name.
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The young actress most recently starred in ‘Paranormal Activity Security Squad,' and has numerous acting credits on her resume. And did we mention she can actually beat any of us up?
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The 26-year-old has also followed in her father's footsteps by entering fitness competitions and trying a bit of bodybuilding. ‘I'm a perfectionist,' says Bianca, ‘and so is he, so he'll always give me little critiques on my form. He'll be all like, ‘Look how high my kick is! And I'm like, Dad, you can't be serious I'm obviously better than you.'
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‘I want to show little girls and little boys that you can be physical and feminine,' explained Bianca. ‘That you can cross your legs at the dinner table and then kick Ass in a nice, feminine way.'
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‘Kind of like how my father brought martial arts to the mainstream for my generation I want to continue that legacy,' she added.‘My parents let us do our own thing,' tells Bianca about her upbringing. ‘When I was young, my mom pushed me into martial arts for self-discipline.' We're sure Bianca has an amazing future in fighting and acting!
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