Mark Cuban Says ‘It’s Not Easy Being My Kid’—’You’re Rich’

Mark Cuban has claimed “it’s not easy being my kid” during a recent appearance on the Talk Tuah podcast.

The Shark Tank investor was speaking to host Haliey Welch, the social media star also known as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” and her occasional co-host, Chelsea Bradford, about his three children and the advice he gives them.

Cuban shares three children—21-year-old Alexis, 18-year-old Alyssa and 15-year-old Jake—with his wife, Tiffany Stewart. His two youngest are still in school, while Alexis is a senior at Vanderbilt, a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Cuban for comment on Tuesday.

“It’s easy to, like, give advice but it’s obviously—they have to be the ones that live it. And it’s not hard being my kid, I mean, it’s not easy being my kid either, you know? Because it’s like, ‘Oh yeah you’re rich,’ you know? And, ‘Oh you’re this,'” Cuban said before Bradford added: “And they think they got to live up to you.”

Cuban agreed, as he continued: “Yeah, and this and that, right? And it’s just like, I feel bad a lot and you know, I try to get them to talk about it and they’re just, ‘No,’ you know.

“But because they’re typical, like, one’s 21, the other two are teenagers, and it’s like they’re just going to, we just try to let them be themselves and grow into the people they need to grow into but it’s still it’s not easy for them.”

When Bradford asked if Cuban came from a wealthy family, he gave an emphatic “hell no,” before explaining that neither of his parents went to college. His dad upholstered cars and chairs for a living and his mother did odd jobs.

The businessman added: “We had a good family, don’t get me wrong, I mean I wouldn’t want to change it for the world but it, you know, wasn’t like everything was easy.”

Cuban said his offspring are “great kids” and he often tells them that they don’t have to have everything figured out in regards to their future. This was also the advice he was giving Welch and Bradford.

“I tell all of them, you don’t have to have the answers right now, you just try different things, you just never know what’s going to hit and just find the things you like,” he shared.

Elsewhere in the episode, Cuban commended Welch for her authenticity and criticized those in the entertainment industry who aren’t genuine.

“Just from the outside lookin’ in, right, I think why you’ve been so successful is that you’re authentic, you know? No, for real. You are who you are, right? You smile, you know, you don’t try to push things on people,” he said.

“Some people are always on. You know, you’ve been around those people now where they’re just always, like, they have this image they’re trying to put out there. And they’re just not themselves. And when you talk to them, it’s hard to talk to those people because they’re always thinking about what angle they have to take and what angle you’re trying to take.

“But I don’t get that sense from watching the podcast and, you know, just little interactions we’ve had—you’re authentic.”

Welch rose to fame earlier this year after appearing in a video by Tim & Dee TV, two YouTube creators who conduct interviews on the street. Responding to a question about what makes “a man go crazy in bed,” Welch used the phrase “hawk tuah” to describe an intimate act and went viral in the process.