Dakota Johnson makes rare comments on being stepmom to Chris Martin’s kids with Gwyneth Paltrow

Dakota Johnson has fully embraced being a stepmom to partner Chris Martin’s children.

“I love those kids like my life depends on it. With all my heart,” she said in a new interview with Bustle about the Coldplay frontman’s daughter Apple, 19, and son Moses, 17, from his first marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow.

For the “Madame Web” star, 34, people don’t need to be blood-related to be family.

“I grew up in a family that was so big, and I just believe in the saying ‘Blood is thicker than water,” she said, before explaining, “The actual saying is ‘The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,’ which means that the connections with people you choose are more solid than the connections to the people you’re actually born to.”

Johnson is a stepmom to partner Chris Martin’s two kids with Paltrow: Apple and Moses. “I love those kids like my life depends on it. With all my heart,” Johnson told Bustle. Agata Serge

Johnson said that a “chosen family” can be “equally as important, if not more.”

“I have four brothers and two sisters, and my two sisters are not blood-related to each other, but they are sisters and they call each other sisters and they are always together. And my two older brothers are not blood-related to each other. And they are brothers,” Johnson explained.

Johnson is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Griffith shares a son, Alexander, with ex-husband Steven Bauer and shares daughter Stella with ex-husband Antonio Banderas.

The “50 Shades of Grey” star said that chosen family can be more important than blood-related family. Agata Serge “The actual saying is ‘The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,’ which means that the connections with people you choose are more solid than the connections to the people you’re actually born to,” she said. Agata Serge Johnson hails from a blended family. Agata Serge

Don, meanwhile, shares son Jesse with ex Patti D’Arbanville, and three children, Grace, Jasper and Deacon with ex-wife Kelley Phleger.

“No matter how f–ked up it is, or who’s in rehab, or who’s not speaking to whom, or who’s divorcing whom, we’re family. And we are always going to be a family. It’s really real,” Dakota said.

While the “50 Shades of Grey” actress claimed to be unaware of the public interest surrounding her relationship with the Paltrow, she is happy social media users are supportive.

Johnson has been in a relationship with Martin since 2017. TheImageDirect.com The actress said she wasn’t aware that people care so much about her relationship with Paltrow. gwynethpaltrow/Instagram

“That’s great. I’m glad there was that positive reaction,” she said, referring to when fans went crazy over a photo of the Goop founder and Dakota holding hands last year.

Dakota and Martin, 47, have been romantically linked since 2017 — a year after he and Paltrow finalized their divorce.

The exes were married for 11 years before announcing their “conscious uncoupling” in 2014.

Johnson has vacationed with Paltrow and her kids in the past. Instagram Paltrow revealed last year that she and her ex’s girlfriend are very good friends. gwynethpaltrow/Instagram

Since their breakup, Martin and Paltrow have continued to amicably co-parent their children and along the way, Dakota has been extremely involved.

In 2019, the “How to be Single” actress joined her musician boyfriend, Paltrow and their kids for a family ski trip in Aspen, Colo.

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Two years later, Dakota and the “Glee” alum were seen bonding at a Gucci fashion show in Los Angeles.

Paltrow and the Coldplay frontman separated in 2014 and finalized their divorce two years later. gwynethpaltrow/Instagram The “Glee” alum often shares photos with her look-alike children. @gwynethpaltrow

Paltrow has spoken openly about her close relationship with Dakota, admitting in an Instagram Q&A last January that she loves her “very much.”

Last October, Paltrow further detailed how she feels about her during another Instagram Q&A.

“We’re actually very good friends,” Paltrow said, adding that she’s “an adorable, wonderful person.”

She married Brad Falchuk in 2018. gwynethpaltrow/Instagram Paltrow admitted that being a stepmom to Falchuk’s children was challenging at first. gwynethpaltrow/Instagram

Paltrow married Brad Falchuk in 2018 and subsequently became a stepmom to his two children from a previous marriage.

The “Iron Man” star admitted that raising her stepchildren was “really hard at first.”

“There’s no book on this. Nobody tells us what to do. And in fact, all of the existing media around what a stepmother is casts us in this evil, villainous light,” she said on social media earlier this year. “It’s kind of like trying to avoid landmines.”