I’d be touched to tears if my future husband ever said the same thing regarding our daughter. What a beautiful sentiment.

I feel sorry for the women that are saying they would be upset if their significant other made a statement such as Joel’s. To feel that way is sad…something is going on deep inside, some major insecurity!

Well, Harlow is his own flesh and blood, his first child. While Richie is the baby mummy, he has only been with Richie for a very short time before she fell pregnant. So who’s to say they’ll still be together 2 years down the road? While Harlow will always be his child

obviously, joel’s words were coming from a good place, even if they did come out a bit awkwardly.

and at least he didn’t say he was “in love” with his daughter. that, in my opinion, would have been even weirder. the dictionary definition of in-love is “deeply or passionately enamored: a young couple in love.”

i don’t like the idea of any parent being “in love” with his or her child. “in love” is for your significant other. “love,” “adoration,” etc. is for your son or daughter.

i guess that’s just my drawn-out way of saying i agree with seal and with those who have cited his words here.

The commentors on this site are such joyless people. Good job taking what he said out of context….

He was setting up the idea of there being so many beautiful girls in the audience, but only one had his heart—his daughter. “One and only” is a use of the superlative for the sake of sounding more poetic.

GOOD LORD. If your husbands/boyfriends said that about your baby, you’d all flip with happiness. Stop being jealous.

So nice to hear that he’s so crazy about his beautiful little girl.

It’s great he’s in love with is daughter, but that statement made me sad for Nicole. Hopefully, one of the prior commentors guess was right and Joel just didn’t word the sentiment right.

I don’t think he meant he doesn’t love Nicole. On other note, when Paris was in Prague last month, she said on the Czech TV that they are trying for a baby as well and it will be called after the place where they conceive.

totally agree with you…ARRiSON!

Wow… taken WAY to seriously. I think what he said was simply adorable. I could only hope my husband/boyfriend feels the same about our children.